Episode 118 – Super Groundhog Bowl
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Summary
Kernel News: Mat
Time: 5:50
Distro Talk: Tony
Time: 7:10
Mary Distro Review
Time: 32:10
Tech News:
Time: 35:35
Toolbox
Time: 52:35
Security Bit
Time: 1:01:18
Listener Feedback
Time: 1:09:55
Outtro Music
Time: 1:12:53
Intro:
Tony Bemus, Mat Enders, and Mary Tomich
Sound bites by Mike Tanner
Kernel News: Mat
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Current Release Candidate
There is no current release candidate
Current Stable Kernels
mainline: 3.13 2014-01-20
stable: 3.13.1 2014-01-29 Greg Kroah-Hartman
stable: 3.12.9 2014-01-25 Greg Kroah-Hartman
longterm: 3.10.28 2014-01-25 Greg Kroah-Hartman
longterm: 3.4.78 2014-01-29 Greg Kroah-Hartman
longterm: 3.2.54 2014-01-03 Ben Hutchings
Distro Talk: Tony
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- 1-20 – Endian Firewall 3.0
- 1-20 – BSD Release: FreeBSD 10.0
- 1-25 – Tiny Core Linux 5.2
- 1-25 – SolydXK 201401
- 1-25 – Semplice Linux 6
- 1-27 – Zorin OS 8
- 1-28 – Simplicity Linux 14.1
- 1-28 – BSD Releases: NetBSD 6.1.3
- 1-28 – Tiny Core Linux 5.1 “piCore”
Distro of the Week: Tony
- Zorin – 1750
- Mageia – 1830
- Debian – 1864
- Ubuntu – 1883
- Mint – 3552
Mary Distro Review
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Tech News:
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How the Chinese Internet ended up in Cheyenne, Wyoming
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/22/that-time-the-chinese-internet-found-itself-at-a-tiny-house-in-cheyenne-wyoming/
Cubuntu
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/Cubuntu-102620.shtml
Just Browsing
http://justbrowsingcd.tumblr.com/post/49050201846/inspiration-for-justbrowsing
How App Developers Leave the Door Open to NSA Surveillance
Look out, Earth! Here comes China Operating System (aka Linux)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/20/china_enters_mobile_os_market_with_statesponsored_release/
List of Linux terminal emulators
http://www.tecmint.com/linux-terminal-emulators/
Maintenance–The Achilles Heel of Linux
LibreOffice upgrade targets Windows integration and power users
The Toolbox
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dstat
Ever want a system monitoring tool that could replace quite a few of the existing one. Well dstat is that tool, it can replace vmstat, iostat, netstat, and ifstat. It not only can do what they do but also adds more functionality. This is a top notch tool for performance tuning, benchmarking, my personal favorite troubleshooting.
It will give you a real-time view of all your systems resources. Dstat will deliver all of that select-able detail in columns with magnitude unit of measure clearly indicated. This makes for less confusion which makes for less mistakes.
Your meant to view dstat’s output in real time. However it does provide for sending its output to a CSV file. You can then import this CSV file into your spreadsheet program of your choice. From there you can use the data to generate graphs.
Another great quality of dstat is that it is written entirely in python. This allows you you to extend dstat with your own custom modules.
Now for the installation. If you thought I was going to tell you how to install it you were wrong. If you don’t know how to install stuff on your system or servers maybe you should go back to Windows.
Now let’s get some stuff done!
In the simplest form you can just start it with:
dstat (you will get output like this)
[root@wackadoo.com]$ dstat
—-total-cpu-usage—- -dsk/total- -net/total- —paging– —system–
usr sys idl wai hiq siq| read writ| recv send| in out | int csw
1 0 98 0 0 0| 78k 222k| 0 0 | 276B 680B| 488 614
0 0 100 0 0 0| 0 0 | 395B 842B| 0 0 | 80 120
0 0 100 0 0 0| 0 8192B| 970B 410B| 0 0 | 165 119
5 0 95 0 0 0| 0 116k|1471B 15k| 0 0 | 948 350
0 0 100 0 0 0| 0 0 |2816B 68k| 0 0 | 136 102
0 0 100 0 0 0| 0 12k| 395B 346B| 0 0 | 77 136
# dstat -c –top-cpu -d –top-io –top-latency
[root@wackadoo.com]$ dstat -c –top-cpu -d –top-io –top-latency
—-total-cpu-usage—- -most-expensive- -dsk/total- —-most-expensive—- –highest-total–
usr sys idl wai hiq siq| cpu process | read writ| i/o process | latency process
6 1 93 0 0 0|mysqld 0.0| 77k 1997k|init 2038k 1673k|events/2 389
7 1 92 0 0 0|php-fpm: pool2.6| 0 1644k|php-fpm: po1238k 535k|php-fpm: pool 286
7 1 92 0 0 0|php-fpm: pool2.6| 0 1496k|php-fpm: po1177k 537k|events/2 9996
6 1 93 0 0 0|php-fpm: pool2.6| 0 1452k|php-fpm: po1177k 537k|php-fpm: pool 11
5 1 94 0 0 0|php-fpm: pool2.2| 0 1616k|php-fpm: po1177k 526k|events/0 6255
7 1 92 0 0 0|php-fpm: pool2.5| 0 1520k|php-fpm: po1173k 532k|php-fpm: pool 380
7 1 92 0 0 0|php-fpm: pool2.5| 0 1440k|php-fpm: po1177k 537k|php-fpm: pool2395
Let’s look at what that means:
-c – shows the stats for the cpu(s)
–top-cpu – show what is using the most cpu at the given time
-d – show the disk i/o in Kb
–top-io – shows what process is using the most disk i/o
–top-latency – shows the process with the highest latency at the given time
To send the output to a csv file for later use we can issue the following command:
[NOTE: the –output needs to come before the flags]
# dstat –output dstat.csv -cdn
Dstat 0.7.0 CSV output”
“Author:”,”Dag Wieers <dag@wieers.com>”,,,,”URL:”,”http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/”
“Host:”,”wakado.com”,,,,”User:”,”root”
“Cmdline:”,”dstat –output dstat.csv -cdn”,,,,”Date:”,”30 Jan 2014 06:26:02 EST”
“total cpu usage”,,,,,,”dsk/total”,,”net/total”,
“usr”,”sys”,”idl”,”wai”,”hiq”,”siq”,”read”,”writ”,”recv”,”send”
6.278,0.546,93.119,0.012,0.000,0.045,78009.559,2053369.802,0.0,0.0
7.676,0.793,91.531,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,2027520.0,9948.0,193792.0
14.345,1.376,84.195,0.0,0.0,0.083,0.0,4530176.0,3645.0,51796.0
12.563,0.960,86.394,0.042,0.0,0.042,0.0,1921024.0,5611.0,108575.0
7.465,0.876,91.618,0.0,0.0,0.042,0.0,5263360.0,6437.0,81213.0
17.927,1.504,80.485,0.0,0.0,0.084,0.0,4489216.0,6263.0,109667.0
10.597,0.876,88.486,0.0,0.0,0.042,0.0,2691072.0,18567.0,180139.0
5.833,0.583,93.500,0.042,0.0,0.042,0.0,1474560.0,17348.0,108765.0
16.472,1.630,81.856,0.0,0.0,0.042,0.0,3858432.0,10972.0,167280.0
14.602,1.126,84.189,0.0,0.0,0.083,0.0,2621440.0,3746.0,66566.0
7.474,0.835,91.649,0.0,0.0,0.042,0.0,1646592.0,30025.0,210603.0
HAD TO REMOVE SAMPLE SPREADSHEET WAS ALL EFFFED UP TO SEE IT PASTE
THE CSV OUTPUT ABOVE IN A SPREADSHEAT
The flags in this command are
-c = which gives you cpu stats
-d = gives you stats on your hard drives
-n = shows you stats on your network connections
For a complete list of all options:
dstat –list
and if you want details you can read the man page
man dstat
And Dag Wieers dstat page:
http://dag.wiee.rs/home-made/dstat/
The Security Bit
Time:
CryptorBit Ransomware that scam for Ransom money with fake Decryption Keys
http://thehackernews.com/2014/01/cryptorbit-ransoware-that-scam-for.html
Worst Passwords of 2013
http://splashdata.com/press/worstpasswords2013.htm
KDE Korner
Homerun Kicker Update
http://blogs.kde.org/2014/01/29/homerun-120
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Outtro Music
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