To ensure good server performance, the total number of client connections, database files, and log files must not exceed the maximum file descriptor limit on the operating system (ulimit -n). Linux systems limit the number of file descriptors that any one process may open to 1024 per process. Edit /etc/security/limits.conf and add these lines to the…

After a lot of planning I left for my solo motorcycle ride from Bangalore to Hampi, Gokarna, Murudeshwara and Jog Falls. I started from Bangalore on Feb 22 and came back on March 1. I rode around 1400 kms. This post is a travel log. There is enough information available about all these places on…

Isn’t it?

You are not the first one to be in the situation. You are not the only one in that situation. You are not alone.

After a brief stint at Mountain View, I came back to Bangalore and have been working from home since then. Working from home (rather from a remote location for me, since rest of my team is on the other half of the world) has its own advantages and disadvantages. I am listing down some of…

This is my desk. So what do we have here: Lenovo Thinkpad T530 Dell H2312HM Monitor Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 Keyboard 3M Ergonomic mouse Apple Mini Displayport to DVi Adapter Creative 2.1 Speaker system (not visible in the pic) All the products are from different vendors. I had not noticed this until I took this pic.

Recently I was working on a real time workflow for a module. I found it really difficult to find good tutorial for the same. I struggled with Flask, gevents and lot of other things and finally settled down to nodejs and socket.io and redis pubsub. I have written a tutorial for the same https://github.com/roshansingh/realtime-notifications. The…

$uptime 16:00:45 up 5 days, 8:40, 5 users, load average: 0.52, 0.45, 0.28 That’s my Thinkpad 🙂

This is the poem from the movie “Jab Tak Hai Jaan”. I have been listening to this song on loop for a few days. Lyrics and the music both are just perfect. Teri aankhon ki namkeen mastiyan Teri hansi ki beparwaah gustakhiyaan Teri zulfon ki leharaati angdaiyaan Nahi bhoolunga main Jab tak hai jaan, jab…

I have added a page to my blog where I will post interesting problems that I come across on my blog. Check it out: http://roshansingh.dev/blog/interesting-bits/