The Witness Profile: The Config Knobs We Run on Hive-Engine and Why
Hey everyone, A few people have reached out recently asking what settings we actually run in on our witness node and why we chose them. I touched on the early operator knobs…
Michael Garcia
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Solving IT puzzles and crafting Python solutions. When not coding, I'm rolling dice in RPGs, navigating Linux (MCMXCVI), and keeping a keen eye on the Crypto...
A Thank-You Note I Wish I Could Reply To
Hey everyone, A little while ago, I wrote about keeping my Pascal-era NVIDIA card alive on newer Linux kernels by patching the NVIDIA 580 DKMS driver. That post was about kernel…
PR #141: Letting Hive-Engine Lite Nodes Catch Up Before Cleaning House
Hey everyone, In my last update, I broke down the Knobs A, B, and C changes and teased what was coming next. The latest piece of that puzzle, Knobs D, is now built, tested on…
Upgrading MongoDB 8 to 9: Why Systemd Refused to Start and How to Bridge the FCV Gap
Hey everyone, If you run a Hive-Engine node (or manage a self-hosted MongoDB instance on Linux), you might run into a nasty surprise after bumping your apt repositories for…
Recap of the Useful Knobs for Hive-Engine Nodes
Hey everyone, Over the past few weeks, I’ve been chipping away at a series of performance tweaks and operator controls for the…
Helping Hive Engine Nodes Catch Up Without Getting Too Clever
Hey everyone, I have been working through the next small performance bundle for the Hive-Engine node, and this one is about the part of the node that fetches Hive blocks. The…
Keeping Pascal Alive: Patching NVIDIA 580 DKMS for Linux Kernel 7.2+
Hey everyone, If you are running a Linux workstation or server with a Pascal-generation GPU (like a GTX 1060, 1070, 1080, or 1080 Ti) alongside bleeding-edge kernels, you might…
Making Hive-Engine Nodes Do Less Waiting
I have been continuing the small, careful performance work on the Hive-Engine node. This time the change is less about adding a new operator setting and more about removing two…
The Ghost in the Bestiary: The Pathfinder Monster That Doesn't Exist
If your Pathfinder 1e druid wants to summon a Black Bear, or your ranger wants one as an animal companion, your first instinct is to pull open the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary and…
PR #138 - A Couple of Useful Knobs for Hive-Engine Nodes
Hey everyone, I have been spending some time in the Hive-Engine node codebase, looking at a larger list of possible performance and lite-node improvements. I decided not to…