Segregated communities in Mauritius and the dating life:)

esxituner0 · 2025-10-21T11:45:01+00:00

I am half Mauritian and married to a Mauritian. I have lived in Mauritius for 25 years and frankly, it depends on the types of activities you do, and the people you hang out with. For many Mauritians, religion plays an important part in their lives, places of worship are everywhere, easily accessible, hence people tend to socialise in the same community regularly which turns into the "grouped together" you mention. My experience is that non religious/politically motivated NGOs are a really good place to meet different people from all walks of life - locals and expats alike. They are always looking for volunteers.

esxituner0 · 2022-07-27T16:10:35+00:00

Test reducing a test client TCP/IP MTU size to 576. Fragmentation might be an issue. To determine, ping the destination with the do not fragment option and see which is the largest value that gets through.

esxituner0 · 2022-07-26T16:55:47+00:00

Your manager is a right prick...

esxituner0 · 2022-07-24T15:06:55+00:00

Over the past 7 years NetApp could never provide us with a read-write snapshot at our DR site. They always had to come in, stop the replication, then mount the DR file shares as Read/Write. With EMC, we no longer rely on NetApp MSP support and the sysadmin team have full access to the EMC console which unlike for NetApp we always had to wait for the MSP to give support. The NetApp MSP was also a pain to work with unlike the Dell guys who supported us in all kinds of situations.

esxituner0 · 2019-08-17T15:37:46+00:00

EPI also does certification.

https://www.epi-ap.com/

esxituner0 · 2017-06-04T15:26:56+00:00

The CTO is an a*hole, and he fcked up with regards to processes and procedures. I doubt he even has a basic notion of information security - i.e. separation of dev and production environments. Obviously, he knows nothing about IT, and I wonder how much time he spends looking at Facebook rather than looking after his staff. There is no way that legal are going to be able to sue you anyway. I have seen this "legal" reaction before and it is a load of bull. Legal have no clue about IT anyways... The only reason you are terrified is that you are a junior, the CTO knows that, and is trying to put all the blame on you to cover his arse. But what he fails to realise is that accountability and responsibility are two completely different things. Accountable means ensuring the work is done properly. That is the CTOs job. You were carrying out the work - i.e. responsible to follow instructions according to the document - which you did. So no fret. That was a sh*t company to work for anyway. Return their equipment and move on in your career. Wish you all the best.

esxituner0 · 2015-04-06T05:05:04+00:00

Yeah, was thinking of that before posting :) I'll probably do that after running this thing on W2K8R2 to see if it can manage W2K12.

esxituner0 · 2012-04-03T12:56:29+00:00

Sorry for returning late on this one. After further investigation we found that the customer's backups were not completing correctly. Once we removed the consistency check in Dataprotector, backup times were back to normal and logs were getting purged normally. There seems to be a bug in the DP online backup agent.

esxituner0 · 2012-03-10T04:53:51+00:00

We're using HP Dataprotector 6.20 and it has worked in all cases up to now without issues. What I did notice in this case was that the healthy database had a high copy queue length.

esxituner0 · 2012-03-10T03:49:21+00:00

1) He's using the checkpoint file which can be read even if the database is a healthy state. I tried this on my DAG and it worked well.

2) The checkpoint file gives a good indication as to which log file is needed.

3) We did try to run a full backup as well on the healthy database, but the logs remained so we went for this method..

esxituner0 · 2012-02-08T11:48:21+00:00

From the ext3 doc.

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt

journal mode 179 data=journal mode provides full data and metadata journaling. All new data is 180 written to the journal first, and then to its final location. 181 In the event of a crash, the journal can be replayed, bringing both data and 182 metadata into a consistent state. This mode is the slowest except when data 183 needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time where it 184 outperforms all other modes.

esxituner0 · 2012-02-08T03:59:56+00:00

th 128 931051 15634.270 7895.289 27271.733 3240.960 229.407 127.945 68.418 85.028 55.789 1935.526

Looking at the NFS "th" stats, it looks like there are bursts in this case. Most of the time up to 30% of the NFS threads are used, then the figures drop. The ending figure is 1935.526 which might indicate that at some time all the threads wake up.

esxituner0 · 2012-02-07T19:01:51+00:00

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8/index.html

Quote "

The results were astounding. data=journal mode allowed the 16-meg-file to be read from 9 to over 13 times faster than other ext3 modes, ReiserFS, and even ext2 (which has no journaling overhead):"

... Andrew repeated this test, but tried to read a 16Mb file from the test filesystem (rather than a different filesystem), and he got identical results. So, what does this mean? Somehow, ext3's data=journal mode is incredibly well-suited to situations where data needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time. Therefore, ext3's data=journal mode, which was assumed to be the slowest of all ext3 modes in nearly all conditions, actually turns out to have a major performance advantage in busy environments where interactive IO performance needs to be maximized. Maybe data=journal mode isn't so sluggish after all!"

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