Lately I had troubles with MongoDB after my database exceeded 2TB and started to constantly complaining about “too many open files“. In order to fix this issue I appended the following lines to “/lib/systemd/system/mongodb.service”: [Service] # Other directives omitted # (file size) LimitFSIZE=infinity # (cpu time) LimitCPU=infinity # (virtual memory size) LimitAS=infinity # (open files) […]
After updating to Ubuntu 14.04 I experienced some serious annoyances / problems with the keyboard layout. My swiss keyboard was always put back to the english layout. After a few unsuccessfull attempts I was able to manage the get it straight by changing the settings in the ibus panel. I just started a terminal, entered: […]
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