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Solaris scales

This is a nifty small feature. Tools like ps , df , du , ls , ps , size , prstat and swap now have the option --scale . This makes the output of those tools...

Free the spare pönökels of the world - now!

I'm getting a new bike soon. Of course you want to use a number of old components as well. A bike is pretty expensive right now as everyone prepares to evade...

Limits revisited

There were more limits changed in regard to open files as well. The change took place in SRU27. * rlim_fd_cur has been increased from 256 pre-SRU27 to 4095...

Small changes: New open files default.

In a relatively recent Solaris 11.4 SRU a limit was increased in its default setting. In 11.4 (no SRU ) the limit of open files for a user was 256. ```...

Socially distanced voices of reason

Went through two milestones this weekend. Did my 4000th kilometre this year on my bike today. Was a week with three 100 km rides, this accelerated things a...

Solaris 11.4 and user_reserve_hint_pct

A long time ago, I wrote about the /etc/system parameter user_reserve_hint_pct . It limits the size of the ZFS ARC cache by proxy by essentially limiting the...

Homebridge and Tasmota at my cellar

And Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. As I integrated them into HomeKit via Homebridge, I had the problem with the Delock sockets with their custom firmware that I...