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Could use docker for app isolation?

I am studying the use of Docker in a big scale project that is actually deployed on production. I never used docker before, but for what I read, it consinst about a new layout called "Container ...
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Optmization and tuning Linux Server (Mediaserver)

I rebuilt a server, specifically a mediaserver, based on debian 12 stable (kernel 6.1). CPU: i7-6700K(no overclock) RAM: 16GB DDR4 (dual channel) NIC: 2 of 2.5Gbit (bonding balance-tlb) (MTU bond0: ...
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Big Maildir mailspool - looking for ways to improve performance

I have an extremely large Maildir which contains emails going back many years. I need to rebuild the server and would like to improve the mail storage setup. My main problem is that backups of the ...
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PostgreSQL: indexes and partitions

I have a PostgreSQL database and I noticed a weird behaviour while working with indexes and partitions. The engine version is 10.21. Now, I have a table with this structure: guid varchar(50) PK guid_a ...
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Speed up grep usage inside bash script

I am currently working on creating a bash script that is supposed to process large log files from one of my programs. When I first started the script took around 15 seconds to complete which wasn't ...
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Parse huge amounts of files efficiently

I have a folder that holds hunderds of thousands of files called hp-temps.txt. (There are also tons of subfolders) The content of these files looks like this for example: Sensor Location ...
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CLI tool that compress the given image, whatever file type the image is (png, jpg, gif, webp, svg)?

I know that there are many tools to optimize an image: pngquant optipng jpegoptim gifsicle exiftool ecc but they are all specific for a certain file type. Is there a single command line that, ...
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Pipewire using 2x processes when idling

I recently had my BT headphones stutter and cut out and realized that during CPU intensive processing, pipewire is dropping frames. My overall goal, then, is to streamline processing to make that ...
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Can't compile linux kernel with -Og/-O0 option for debugging purpoces

Having custom hardware running embedded Linux (OpenWrt) like a charm. CPU - is IMX6ULL (ArmV7) so it is supported by Jlink to debug over JTAG interface. Starting GDB server and step by step debugging ...
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Why integer division is faster than bitwise shift in shell?

I'm comparing performance of bash and dash (default sh in Xubuntu 18.04). I expect sh to be faster than bash I expect bitwise shift to be faster than division operator. However, I'm getting ...
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Is jq internal sort slower than GNU sort?

While filtering through this json file I did a benchmark and found out utilizing jq's internal sort and unique method is actually 25% slower than sort --unique! Command Mean [ms] Min [ms] Max [ms] ...
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How to Build Latest HandBrake on linux with FDO (PGO) + LTO?

Passing CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to a HandBrake build for the latest version (v1.3.3 at the time of this writing) will work until you add -flto which will FAIL the whole build. How to build HandBrake with ...
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How can I frequently update a file without harming my disk?

I've got an i3 install on a laptop with an SSD. Currently I have it configured to save the WM layout on many different events. The tool that I'm using to do this is built on Python, and I'm just ...
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Optimize time when creating archive

Currently I am using the following command to create an archive with files older than 7 days: find /var/tunningLog/ -type f -mtime +7 -print0 | tar -czf "/var/tunningLog/$(date '+%Y-%m-%d').tar....
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Optimal command-line search inside a sorted text file

Let's say I have a text file with billions of text lines sorted alphabetically, like Bar=10 Foo=6 Naz=42 How can I search for the line starting with Foo in the most optimal way (the file contains ...
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