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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 […]
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 […]
Your life has value!
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 […]
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!
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. […]
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. […]
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…
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.
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