Performance

How to Manage Systemd Services with systemctl on Linux: Complete Guide (2025–2026) — step-by-step tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Systemd Services with systemctl on Linux: Complete Guide (2025–2026)

Manage systemd services with systemctl is one of the most essential skills for any Linux system administrator or DevOps engineer in 2025–2026. Since systemd became the default init system on virtually all major distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, and more), the systemctl command is now the central tool for controlling services, checking statuses, modifying boot behavior, and troubleshooting.

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PyTorch DataLoader Tutorial: Complete Guide to Dataset, DataLoader, Custom Datasets, Transforms, and Efficient Loading (2025-2026 Best Practices) — step-by-step tutorial on Progressive Robot

PyTorch DataLoader Tutorial: Complete Guide to Dataset, DataLoader, Custom Datasets, Transforms, and Efficient Loading (2025-2026 Best Practices)

In deep learning with PyTorch, efficient data handling is often the biggest bottleneck during model training. Poor data pipelines can slow down training dramatically—even more than model complexity or hardware limitations. PyTorch’s Dataset and DataLoader classes provide powerful, flexible abstractions to handle loading, preprocessing, batching, shuffling, augmentation, and multi-worker parallel loading seamlessly.

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How to Configure Nginx Logging Ubuntu: Setup, Rotation, and Best Practices — step-by-step tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx Logging Ubuntu: Setup, Rotation, and Best Practices

Configuring logging in Nginx on Ubuntu is essential for monitoring server performance, troubleshooting errors, and ensuring security. Whether you’re dealing with high-traffic websites or simple applications, knowing how to configure Nginx logging Ubuntu setups allows you to capture critical data without overwhelming your system. This comprehensive tutorial walks you through setting up access and error logs, implementing log rotation to manage disk space, and applying advanced configurations for optimal observability.

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Common Problems 114088

RHEL 10 Rsyslog Stops Forwarding Logs to Central SIEM

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 28 January 2026 Affected versions: RHEL 10 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & […]

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How to Install and Configure Memcached on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Memcached on RHEL 9

Memcached is a high-performance, distributed in-memory key-value cache designed specifically for caching database query results, session data, and computed values. Unlike Redis, Memcached is deliberately simple — it does not support persistence, replication, or complex data types. This simplicity makes Memcached extremely fast and memory-efficient: it uses a slab allocator to eliminate memory fragmentation and […]

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Common Problems 114109

RHEL 10 – tuned profile reverts after reboot and performance degrades – Fix & Prevention

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 21 January 2026 Affected versions: RHEL 10.0 RHEL 10.1 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related […]

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How to Configure Suricata IDS/IPS on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Suricata IDS/IPS on RHEL 9

Suricata is a high-performance, open-source network intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS) that inspects traffic in real time against a rule set to identify threats, policy violations, and malicious activity. On RHEL 9, Suricata integrates cleanly with systemd and can run in passive IDS mode (logging alerts without blocking) or active IPS mode (dropping malicious […]

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How to Set Up ZFS on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up ZFS on RHEL 9

ZFS (Zettabyte File System) delivers enterprise-grade data integrity features including checksumming, copy-on-write snapshots, built-in RAID, and efficient replication — without requiring a separate volume manager. Although ZFS is not included in RHEL 9’s default kernel, the OpenZFS project provides DKMS-based packages that work reliably on RHEL 9. This tutorial covers installing OpenZFS, creating pools and […]

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Common Problems 113898

RHEL 10 DNF Metadata Download Fails with Mirror Timeout

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 3 January 2026 Affected versions: RHEL 10 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & […]

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