Exception from “The Art of Project Management” chapter 7.
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
What to do with ideas once you have them
This is the summary part of chapter six in “The Art of Project Management”.
Interactive jobs in SGE
SGE support interactive jobs with qsh, qrsh and qlogin. While qsh focus with X11 sessions, qrsh and qlogni are using to execute interactive commands (qlogin is more used to initiate interactive shell, but qrsh do the command and exit).
Force high-priority job submision in SGE 6.x
The objective of this is to implement a way in SGE for high-priority job submission to a few shared hosts so that they can alway run without waiting in the default queue.
OOM_kill vs. automount process
One of my Linux servers running RHEL3 has stange process-being-killed problem for the last a few weeks. The automount process turned out to be killed by OOM-killer in linux kernel when the system runs out of memory.
Checkpoints for design phases
Excerption of “Art of Project Management”, chapter 6.3. Design phase is between when problem has been designed (objectives) and when solution is provided (deliverables).
Where idea comes from
Excerption from “Art of Project Management” chapter six. “Idea” here means the ‘how” to fulfil the requirements collected in the earlier stage.
A few highlights on two SLA related articles
The infrastructure part of my company will be outsourced in a couple of months and I am responsible for driving this efforts with the team. Two articles drew my attention when studying the necessary document.
How to debug irregular “out of memory” error
One of the Linux application server always gets “out of memory” error in the mid night, it because difficult to track what’s going on during that time, so we need to implement automated tracking on the system memory utilization.
How to quickly add windows fonts to Fedora 7
The following guides assume you have a windows installed in parallel with Fedora 7, as this is the usual case for IT users who keep both Windows and Linux in the same laptop.