Using Twitter as notifications transport for Nagios or Icinga alerts

Are you wondering how many alternative ways to get notifications from your nagios/icinga exists, other than plain email messages? And what if you actually are monitoring your email or DNS infrastructure and you don’t want to use a third-party email account dedicated to our precious notices?

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zram on Debian/Ubuntu for memory overcommitment

In recent Linux releases, it’s available a tiny module called zram, that permits us to create RAM based block devices (named /dev/zramX), which will be kept in memory as compressed data. These ram-based block devices allow very fast I/O, and compression provides a reasonable amounts of memory saving.

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