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Posts tagged with jenkins

• Reliably finding processes with ps by name
  Posted by Oliver on the 17th of July, 2011 in category Tech

  I imagine that there are two groups of people who might read this post:

  1. When you need to find a process by name, you run ps -ef or similar and pipe into grep processname.
  2. When you need to find a process by name, you run ps -C processname

  If you fall into the first category, you fail my interview tests. Perhaps you smugly fall into the second category, but surely you have seen this occur:

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• An odd obsession with hardware utilisation
  Posted by Oliver on the 19th of February, 2011 in category Thoughts

  I'm sure I'm not alone in my personification of hardware, but in extension to that I like to know that my hardware is doing something. The thought of it sitting there idle just bugs me. So when I install a fresh new Jenkins server and it is sitting there waiting for jobs to be fired off, it saddens me just a little that it isn't utilised more.

  The flip-side situation is when the machine is…