Beutelevision

by Thomas Beutel

Month: July, 2015

Leap Second on 6/30/2015 Caused mysqld Process To Consume CPU

This morning I got a notification that mysqld was consuming on average 35% of the CPU on one my servers. This was strange because this particular server doesn’t even use MySQL regularly. It’s there only to serve a rarely used legacy table. A quick look with “show processlist” confirmed that there were no queries running. […]

McArthur-Burney Falls on the Redwoods and Pacific Railroad

My latest project on my model railroad is this waterfall. I’ve patterned it after McArthur-Burney falls in Northern California. It’s still a work in progress, but I’m liking how it is turning out.