Monthly Archives: May 2007

Linux

Memory-lean nginx on a VPS

May 8, 2007 – 4:32 pm

I spent this weekend testing and installing nginx and I have said Adios to Apache! Let me tell you why I have done that.

I am running this blog on a slicehost.com 256Mb Xen VPS, using WordPress. I have been using Apache 2.2 for almost a year now without any problems. But recently I deployed a little Ruby on Rails application using mongrel for my wife’s business, and then suddenly I ran out of memory. Each Apache worker was easily taking 15 to 20Mb, even with a really cut-down configuration and built on Gentoo.…

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Future

The Semantic Desktop, The Semantic OS

May 1, 2007 – 8:29 pm

One of the most useful recent additions to my Gnome desktop has been Beagle, Nat’s personal desktop search daemon. I also discovered that in Ubuntu Feisty there is a deskbar that traces all the actions you do from your desktop, including your web activity and beagle searches. The more you use it, the more relevant it becomes since humans are repetitive.

Then, it happened: Tim pointed me this morning to Beagle++, a semantic desktop search engine based on Beagle, and that triggered the thought.…

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