Monthly Archives: April 2014

Execute commands if load average is above in linux

Description

I needed this to do some testing with a load problem I had. One of our server would spike in load for a minute or two, but at random times.
I needed to see what was generating these spikes, but did not want to sit around waiting for it to happen and being ready to hit enter on the commands i needed to run when the load was spiking. So I made this simple little script that you can edit to your needs.

It’s a bash script, and requires the package “bc” to be installed (install it using your package manager if you don’t already have it installed.)

I have tested the script on CentOS and Debian.

I have tried commenting everything in the script as good as possible, but if you have any changes feel free to post a comment.

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How to install a single package from debian testing through apt

Why would you want to install a package from testing when running on stable?

The reason is simple. Sometimes you just need a later version of a package than is in the Debian Stable repository. You could of course compile it from source, but this was not good enough for me since if you compile it from source, you have to keep it updated manually, and i’m sure i will forget to.
I wanted to do it through apt like the normal packages, But at the same time still keep running on Debian stable but having the option to install a later version of a package.
In this post, i will show you how you can make that possible, and it’s really easy!
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