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Once upon a time, on a Virtual Machine far far away, there was a Debian LAMP stack running 256Mb of RAM and Nagios. On top of the most brave and noble Apache and MySQL servers there lived a Drupal 6 install and some beautiful $nodes in a most handsome Garland theme arrangement.

Every day the beautiful $nodes would frolic and play in the garland theme as the menu API called upon them and $users would pay them visits bearing them gifts of threaded comments and filtered HTML. All was beautiful.

But not for poor old Nagios. Nagios would say to the beautiful $nodes, "Wait oh, fair and just nodes. You may frolic and play but your MySQL server is tired and neglected." For MySQL was using much swap disk and was very tired. But the beautiful $nodes would say "Away with you Nagios! Don't waste our time for we are beautiful!". Nobody was listening. Not even watchdog() cared.

After a while, when the $users and Form API had created many many beautiful nodes, there came to town a Contributed Module Circus! "Hurrah!" said the $nodes! "Hurrah!".

There was Views2, Panels3 CCK and many widgets to extend the $nodes into the most beautiful content types with rich media and all sorts or configurations. Everybody was happy! Even the blocks could play with views and panels in the beautiful theme garden.

But Nagios was very very worried. The MySQL server was truly tired and couldn't cope much longer and some of the contributed modules were bloated and fat. "$nodes, $nodes", Nagios pleaded with red pie graphs and bar charts. Please listen! Your MySQL is going to die and your database will be offline. What happens if you get slash dotted? But the $nodes said, "Enough Nagios! You will be banished to a sub domain that nobody looks at. Go away!". So the poor old system administrator's tool left never to return.

Then, all of a sudden something terrible happened! Oh no! it was the Wicked White Screen of Death (WWSOD)! Arrrrgh, she screamed as she smothered the beautiful $nodes in the most whitest of evil storms than even the watchdog() table couldn't log. "Die() $nodes, die()! You have used more than the allocated memory limit, fools!"

"Oh help, help cried the $nodes, who will help us?". Meanwhile Nagios couldn't hear all the fuss because he had been redelegated. More and more $nodes choked on the horrible WWSOD's terrible white screen of nothingness and slowly they were fading away. "Cough, cough" said watchdog(). But nobody was listening.

Then just as all hope was lost and Drupal could no longer bootstrap, in the distance, through SSH on port 22, came the most well respected of Sysadmins in the Land! "What's all this?", said the Well Respected Sysadmin who had a Blog and was very fluent in Bash Terminal speak, "Where's Nagios?". "I am here!" said Nagios! "What the f*&k is going on?" said the Well Respected System Administrator who drank way too much coffee. "I have been set to warning level zero" cried the poor open source application. "Oh, you poor thing" said the Sysadmin. "I tell you, the management in this place are incompetent!" and so, the Sysadmin reset Nagios and upgraded Debian's memory and allocated some to PHP by waving his magic Vim IDE on php.ini. All the $nodes were saved!

"Hurrah!, Hurrah!" said the $nodes once again and they all rejoiced for Nagios was the hero! The Well Respected System Administrator had even installed Memcache and compressed all the CSS files and even ran Apache Bench (ab) to check everything was OK. Nagios was happy. All was well in the beautiful D6 install and WWSOD was never to return. "I'll get you my pretty $nodes!" she screamed as she was consumed by about 4Gb of RAM...

"Thank you" said the $nodes, "We will never neglect sysadmin again" and they lived happily ever after...

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Hi Ben, just wanted to let you know that the books which I bought had arrived safely.
They are in great condition as you stated. Thanks very much. This will keep me busy for some time.

Bernie

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