random musings from a twisted mind
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Smokeping and measuring SOAP requests
Sep 28th
We’ve had an issue with performance of a SOAP interface, and here’s how you go about setting up smokeping to time it:-
extraargs = -H Content-Type:text/xml --data @/srv/scripts/soap_check/soap-test.xml
urlformat = http://server.name.com/url/soap_url
The only annoying problem is that the SOAP payload cannot be included as part of the command line, so any slaves would require the file manually copied into the same location
social networking
Jan 6th
Hmm, I’ve always had some trouble using social networks – how much of that is because I’m not, and never been, much of a diarist I don’t know; as a little aid memoire I’ve scribbled together the following diagram of the interactions

EEeeek, err – maybe I should just stick to 1
fare thee well drupal
Sep 8th
So after nearly two and a half years I’ve finally said farewell to drupal and gone back to wordpress, why?
Well mostly because I was finding drupal a little too complicated for what I was really wanting – which was just a simple place to keep track of random things – will mean I’ll loose the ability of doing some things that I did like to throw together, but then again – I shouldn’t have so much time to do that now either!
Lets see how long this lasts!
apache.org on solaris/SPARC
Jan 23rd
Heh, who would’ve thunked it – apache.org is running solaris 10/SPARC and they even have http://www.apache.org/server-status open to everyone to be nosey too; just need to get my head around some of the linux IP tuning options for busy servers.