opentracker.i2p.rocks june 2023 temporary outage

On June 1 2023 while applying some slight tuning of tcp sysfs parameters opentracker.i2p.rocks experienced a cascading failure caused by nginx dog piling and spiking the load average of the box well over 100 from excessive cpu usage from tls overhead. ernesto from torrentfreak seemed to have noticed …

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musings on tuning nginx for production.

The nginx default settings are a stroke of accedental or maybe intentional genius. They are so under powered that it is actually amazing they worked for me for as long as I had them. I assume it is this way so that it forces admins to actually pay attention and …

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New GPG Key for signing (again)

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Hash: SHA256



I have yet another new signing key, this time with a new email.

key id: 2CE6F2743138825B7A7E521D025C02EE3A092F2D
Jeff Becker (probably not evil) <jeff@lokinet.io>

bitcoin height: 726016 
bitcoin blockhash: 0000000000000000000a333f89a22811a5d6f204f5710617b65dafa2540b93e5
date: 2022-03-05T14:49:29Z

this key can be found at https://lokinet.io/jeff …

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