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Save Oracle/Sun from Monty and alike.

Few days ago I received a humble entreaty from Monty Creator of MySQL to step in and save his child from dirty beast whose name is Oracle. I must confess, that whilst this stinky story had been evolving and surging up I tried to publicly keep silence (I do clear understand that my voice could […]

Posted on January 6, 2010 at 2:33 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Sun

2010 is just around the corner

Like it or not but it’s less than 10 hours in my GMT-world before we enter into a new decade. I’m really not a big fan of drawing the lines and summing up of what have been or could have been done so I will totally ignore that ;-) Instead of that I’ll try to […]

Posted on December 31, 2009 at 2:51 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life

Your life has value!

Posted on December 29, 2009 at 11:54 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life

SDC’s big theory

Just copy-pasting a high-level description of new SDC scheduling class taken from corresponding PSARC discussion to ease future reference. /* * The System Duty Cycle (SDC) scheduling class * ——————————————– * * Background * * Kernel threads in Solaris have traditionally not been large consumers * of CPU time. They typically wake up, perform a […]

Posted on December 27, 2009 at 9:58 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Solaris

Visualizing DTrace: Sun Storage 7000 Analytics

If for some reason you woke up today in a bad and sombre mood than just follow this link to skyrocket it for the rest of the day. More over you could kill to birds with one stone because apart from being very hilarious it’s a very educational presentation as well. Enjoy!

Posted on December 24, 2009 at 9:12 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

Week in a hospital’s confinement

This week I will have to spend within four walls with my kid as a precaution measure against pneumonia. He was close but thanks God now he is on right track and getting better and better with every day. Update. Here is a photo of a “bed” we have to sleep on with my kid. […]

Posted on December 21, 2009 at 10:34 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life

Working with FC in Linux

Here is a short list of several commands that are quite handy when dealing with linux, especially with redhat based distros, and fibre channel. How to list installed HBAs. # lspci | grep -i fibre 0b:00.0 Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation Zephyr-X LightPulse Fibre Channel Host Adapter (rev 02) What type of HBA you have installed. […]

Posted on December 18, 2009 at 12:08 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Linux

Another piece of paper to decorate a wall

Today I successfully passed Sun Certified System Administrator for Sun Cluster 3.2 certification exam and now awaiting for a new certificate to be delivered to my home address. Sweet…

Posted on December 17, 2009 at 2:59 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life, Sun

Double daddy

Yesterday my wife delivered another human soul into this world – making me twice happier than before. This time it’s a girl. I haven’t seen my cute baby yet and could hardly wait when they both return back to home.

Posted on December 3, 2009 at 11:55 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life

Hard to be NonStop

Just a short set of commands to verify and reset disk status on NonStop platform: scf status disk $DATA02 scf info disk $* scf status disk $DATA02, detail scf reset $DATA02 scf start $DATA02

Posted on November 27, 2009 at 12:22 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Uncategorized