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Apr 182010
 

Repair table in MySQL

Answer:

If you are using the MyISAM storage engine, database might be corrupted when the computer was shutdown unexpectedly. To repair the table, you can use the following command in the MySQL client.

mysql> REPAIR TABLE my_table;

Apr 152010
 

How to tell if Apache 2 is using prefork or worker MPM?

Answer:

If you are running in Red Hat Linux/ Fedora/ CentOS

# httpd -V
....
Architecture:   64-bit
Server MPM:     Prefork
  threaded:     no
    forked:     yes (variable process count)
...

If you are running in Debian/ Ubuntu, you can use apache2 -V, which get the same output as above.