As discussed earlier, I’ve switched over to using Jekyll for generating this blog. So far, so good. But what I wanted to do was run the Jekyll serve components in Podman, so I could preview changes without having to have local Ruby installs.

In my last post, I talked about how one of my KVM VMs was inflicting very high disk utilization on me. However, there’s some more things about this that has come to light.

When I was trying to do some stuff on my home server this morning, I noticed that performance was absolutely awful. A quick examination of the server with top revealed that the server was getting wrecked by extremely high I/O wait.

I recently put Podman on my KVM hypervisor, so I had a way of running containers alongside full KVM virtual machines. Anyway, I ran into quite the gotcha. Sometimes the Podman container storage doesn’t get unmounted fully when you destroy a container. And I found out why.

I recently discovered OmniFactory for Minecraft, and this gave me a renewed interest in Minecraft in general. It’s a very deep modpack, which incorporates a lot of machinery, chemistry, and focuses on crafting. This means it’s also horrendously complicated, but comes with interesting problem solving and design gameplay, which is something I like.

I’ve had a bee in my bonnet the past few weeks about Markdown vs. Wikitext and HTML. In short, I hugely prefer Markdown. There’s a couple of reasons for this;