Linux on USB key or SSD – performance tips

April 30, 2009

Here is a list of performance tips collected from various blogs/sources on the net: Format / mount the SSD device as ext2 (no journaling) and with noatime fs option. Use elevator=noop for SSD devices, for eg: echo noop > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler # assuming sda = SSD device

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Generating and using a SSL Client certificate with SSH / Putty / etc. (using certificate from CACert.org)

April 7, 2009

When using SSH, especially with CVS from the command line, if you have not exchanged certificates between the client and server, you have to keep entering your password each time you do a cvs operation over SSH. This can get annoying quickly. This is also the case if you use ssh or scp from linux console [...]

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