LowEndBox

Replacing Big Fat Bash with Dash for Scripting

Mar 15, 2009

A while a go I looked at Bash replacements for interactive shells. Unfortunately for me, I am just getting too used to having Bash on the command line and can't get myself used to other shells. However, interactive shell is one thing, and scripting shell is another. If your scripts are compatible with the original bourne shell, then you should try dash instead of that big fat Bash! This morning I just discovered one of my...

LEA

Feb 09, 2009

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It's actually a tip from Lincoln, who emailed me last month: Another idea is to replace bash (~4M/instance) with pdksh (~1M/instance). It doesn't sound like much, but if you're like me and you're have...

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Sep 11, 2008

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Got your dirt cheap VPS with only 64MB guaranteed memory on OpenVZ? Want to move your WordPress blog from some insanely oversold shared hosting to your shining low end box? If you follow the "traditio...

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May 07, 2008

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When you go and find a cheap low end Linux virtual server, the criteria usually involve price (very important!), location (for low latency SSH access), virtualization (Xen vs. OpenVZ?), etc. However t...

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Apr 15, 2008

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MySQL is pretty much the de facto database engine for most open source scripts, and it is almost-always installed on hosted servers. However the default MySQL installation on Debian/Ubuntu takes aroun...

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Mar 30, 2008

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When you are using a low-end server with only 64MB of memory, sometimes you just have to look for alternate software packages with less bloat to leave more memory for your (often more bloated) applica...

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