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🇬🇧 Solaris ZFS Performance

Increasing ZFS pool sizes

I had this discussion with a number of customers in the past, because it's one of the not so obvious consequences of the inner workings of ZFS , of how ZFS...

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🇬🇧 Solaris SMF Admin

ptree with service names

A nice tool to get some understanding of the dependencies of processes is the ptree tool. With the -c option it shows the contract id (the contract filesystem...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Admin

newtask easier to use in scripts

newtask is an important tool when you start applications in a different project context, for example for resource control purposes. Maybe you remember my...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Admin Monitoring ZFS

Enterprise Health Check

*(This blog entry was in the publication queue for a while, so Chris Beal overtook me with his great blog entry )* For a very long time there are some security...

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🇬🇧 Solaris DTrace Admin

More precise timestamps for DTrace

Sometimes the timestamps delivered by %Y are not precise enough for debugging purposes. ``` # dtrace \ -n 'syscall::read:entry {printf("%Y", walltimestamp);}'...

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🇬🇧 Solaris Security Admin

How you have grown ... sxadm

I remember I first talked at a Solaris day in the Vienna Urania about sxadm for security extension administration. At that time we had one security extension...

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