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@wmealing
wmealing / C-states.md
Last active March 22, 2025 04:15
What are CPU "C-states" and how to disable them if needed?

To limit a CPU to a certain C-state, you can pass the processor.max_cstate=X option in the kernel line of /boot/grub/grub.conf.

Here we limit the system to only C-State 1:

    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-371.1.2.el5 ... processor.max_cstate=1

On some systems, the kernel can override the BIOS setting, and the parameter intel_idle.max_cstate=0 may be required to ensure sleep states are not entered:

@rodrigosetti
rodrigosetti / remove-unused-imports.py
Created February 7, 2013 21:49
Removes unused imports from a bunch of Java files.
#! /usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8
"""This script reads all .java files from a directory tree and removes unused
import statements. It may have errors in detecting import lines (e.g. import
lines within block comments, or import lines with another statement in the same
line), and it may have false-negatives when deciding to remove an import (i.e.
it only removes if the last import symbol word doesn't appear at all -
including comments - in the code).
@chrisroos
chrisroos / gpg-import-and-export-instructions.md
Created September 9, 2011 10:49
Instructions for exporting/importing (backup/restore) GPG keys

Every so often I have to restore my gpg keys and I'm never sure how best to do it. So, I've spent some time playing around with the various ways to export/import (backup/restore) keys.

Method 1

Backup the public and secret keyrings and trust database

cp ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg /path/to/backups/

or, instead of backing up trustdb...

@clintel
clintel / gist:1155906
Created August 19, 2011 02:40
Fenced code in bullet lists with GitHub-flavoured MarkDown??

Fenced code blocks inside ordered and unordered lists

  1. This is a numbered list.

  2. I'm going to include a fenced code block as part of this bullet:

    Code
    More Code