Logged into a Puppet master server today and noticed that I had some high CPU utilization happening. This is rather odd as the box usually just chugs along with no worries what-so-ever. Turns out, some others noticed this as well and some had suspicions that it was leap second related. Check out the full thread here. Looking back at my SAR records, I find that my CPU spiked right around June 30th at 7PM which is July 1, Midnight GMT.

Trying to keep myself on track here and the best way to do that is to make sure that I’m writing and checking in on my goals at various points throughout the year. So here is my mid-year goal checking. Goal #1: Sleep More! 6 months in and still tracking with the help of mercuryapp.com. My average is now 6.92 which is up slightly from my 3 month mark of 6.

We’re currently running a little in house beta at the office of vCloud 1.5.0. The testing has been going on for a while and recently I had to do something I didn’t want to do, but had a nice learning experience for me so I thought I would share. We have two UCS blades running in our vCloud environment giving us a nice healthy test bed to play in. For another maintenance in our VMware environment, I had to steal one of these blades to be used in another cluster to add some resources temporarily.

Today I came into work with the following messages in my logwatch emails: Last Status:    WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!    WARNING: Local version: 0.97.4 Recommended version: 0.97.5    DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq    main.cvd is up to date (version: 54, sigs: 1044387, f-level: 60, builder: sven)    daily.cld is up to date (version: 15042, sigs: 218148, f-level: 63, builder: mcichosz)    bytecode.cld is up to date (version: 185, sigs: 39, f-level: 63, builder: neo) Ah crap, time to touch all the boxes and make sure that the package is up to date right?

My 2nd 5K of the year is in the bag with the completion of the Dam to Dam 5K. The race this year took a different route and had a much better result for me. I’ve been running a lot more and it definitely showed. At the end of the day, I got 8th in my age group and 100th overall with a time of 23:04. I tied the 7th place guy in my age group but he had 2 seconds on me in gun time.