I'm trying to teach myself more Mongo, so here's my quick notes on how I installed it, configured it and run a benchmark using YSCB (Yahoo! Cloud System Benchmark).

Installing Mongo:

1. Add the Mongo repository file /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-3.4.repo:

[mongodb-org-3.4]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl …

I always thought that unlike compression tools, tar could not use multiple cores.

It turns out somebody went out and modified tar to do just that -- and it was 4 years ago too! It's called mtar.

Not only does mtar uses pigz instead of gzip, but it also implemented multi …

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Recently I was in a situation where I was asked to migrate a server to a different provider.

I figured this would be trivial so I started with the usual rsync in a screen copy. I checked a few hours later and rsync was frozen.

Further investigation revealed …

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Stolen from here

1. Download the source code:

wget https://github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbench/archive/v5.1.3.tar.gz

2. Install dependencies for CentOS 6.x:

yum install -y gcc time perl-Time-HiRes

3. Untar and change directory:

tar zxvf UnixBench5 …