Category Archives: Linux

How to transfer a file via XMODEM using Minicom

Run minicom and first connect to the device, execute the command to transfer/receive the file. It is also desirable to specify the data transfer rate of 115200 before the transfer to the device and in minicom to speed up the process otherwise if the speed is 9600, you will have to wait a long time. In minicom, the speed is selected by pressing Ctrl+A O and selecting “setting the serial port”, then the “E” key and again “E”.

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Changing CPU Scaling Governor on Linux

Through “Scaling Governor”, you can choose the optimal CPU frequency control scheme, which affects power consumption and performance.

On highly loaded access servers, acquaintances had cases of server hangup during “ondemand”, although I did not have such cases, but still I recommend changing it to “performance”.
On laptops and lightly loaded servers, you can leave “ondemand” to save energy.

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How did I make a request to Hetzner to replace the disk in the raid

Already quite often I wrote in Hetzner to replace disks in a raid and in this article I will describe one of the cases.

And so, one morning, after a disk dropped out of a raid, mdadm sent me a message by email.
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