linux

7 posts

Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri

Ubuntu 21.10 and acpi-call-dkms bug

If you’re using a ThinkPad laptop with Ubuntu Linux, you might be probably also using a package called acpi-call-dkms. This package installs a kernel module that provides a way for software to do ACPI calls. One of the most popular program to use it – is TLP.

Unfortunately with the latest release of Ubuntu – 21.10 Impish Indri this package is partially broken, as it doesn’t seem to work with Linux kernel 5.13 because of a bug.

Continue reading
Using CGroups to make local test runs less painful

Using CGroups to make local test runs less painful

In my team we’re using Docker a lot, especially in pair with testcontainers. When we’re running functional tests locally, there might be spinned up localstack, WireMock, Postgres and a container with the service itself. Running them all at the same time as well as the tests might heat up your laptop a lot, as well as make it next to unusable for quite some time. Luckily, thanks to having Linux on my laptop, this issue can be solved using CGroups.

Continue reading