I’ve been setting up a new Proxmox server and messing around with VMs, and wanted to know what kind of useful commands I’m missing out on. Bonus points for a little explainer.

Journalctl | grep -C 10 'foo' was useful for me when I needed to troubleshoot some fstab mount fuckery on boot. It pipes Journalctl (boot logs) into grep to find ‘foo’, and prints 10 lines before and after each instance of ‘foo’.

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    14 hours ago

    should be the number of hardware threads available on the system by default

    No, not at all. That is a terrible default. I do work a lot on number churning and sometimes I have to test stuff on my own machine. Generally I tend to use a safe number such as 10, or if I need to do something very heavy I’ll go to 1 less than the actual number of cores on the machine. I’ve been burned too many times by starting a calculation and then my machine stalls as that code is eating all CPU and all you can do is switch it off.