Archive for March 2010

Reduce iowait of php5-cgi processes writing to session files

One of our servers has been dealing with huge peaks of iowait. After some investigation i noticed that this is (obviously) caused by a disk writing. The iostat program gave me huge Blk_wrtn/s numbers for my first partition device. I wrote a very poor but usefull php command line application that detects processes that are [...]

eBox: html/css box with imaged corners and gradient overlay

Creating a box with rounded corners using css always is quite a hassle, so i decided to figure it out properly once and for good. Using absolutely positioned elements you can create corners, and all elements between those corners. The tricky part is to let the border parts between the corners have a 100% width [...]