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interesting benefits of solaris

mike — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:59:22 +0000

well this is slightly surprising, but in a very good way, and does lead to some interesting suggestions on how to best to improve matters, but look at the following graph of FAST ESP query latency: Notice that the average … Continue reading →

solaris zone utilisation via SNMP

mike — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:15:21 +0000

It’s been a bug-bear for a long time for me that the CPU metrics when querying a Solaris 10 host are global and not zone specific (which of course makes sense, just makes it harder to track zone utilisation). So … Continue reading →

Memcached in Solaris

mike — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:07:52 +0000

Oh, so OpenSolaris is going to come with memcached pre-configured/installed - which is pretty nice; now just for the integration into other things . . .

Memcached in Solaris

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Zones

mike — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:22:44 +0000

Configure the zone you want, this is just a basic configuration (suited to a name server - that inherits the global zones /var/named)


# zonecfg -z solzone
solzone: No such zone configured
Use 'create' to begin configuring a new zone.
zonecfg:solzone> create
zonecfg:solzone> set zonepath=/u01/zones/solzone
zonecfg:solzone> set autoboot=true
zonecfg:solzone> add net
zonecfg:solzone:net> set address=10.10.10.20/24
zonecfg:solzone:net> set physical=bge0 zonecfg:solzone:net> end
zonecfg:solzone> add fs
zonecfg:solzone:fs> set type=lofs
zonecfg:solzone:fs> set special=/u01/zonedata/solzone
zonecfg:solzone:fs> set dir=/u01
zonecfg:solzone:fs> end
zonecfg:solzone> add inherit-pkg-dir
zonecfg:solzone:inherit-pkg-dir> set dir=/var/named
zonecfg:solzone:inherit-pkg-dir> end
zonecfg:solzone> add attr
zonecfg:solzone:attr> set name=comment
zonecfg:solzone:attr> set type=string
zonecfg:solzone:attr> set value="test solaris zone"
zonecfg:solzone:attr> end 
zonecfg:solzone> verify
zonecfg:solzone> commit
zonecfg:solzone> exit

And now install and boot the zone


# zoneadm -z solzone install
# zoneadm -z solzone boot

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db2 gotcha on solaris 10

mike — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:39:53 +0000

Hmm, nice little error when trying to start db2 on solaris 10, stating that it was unable to start up the database and i should check my SHM settings! Arrgh! prctl reported correct project settings, so tried truss:-


# truss -f db2start
truss: cannot trace set-id or unreadable object file: db2start

Cue alarm bells, proven by trusty "ls":

 
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root    root 238584 Jul 10 12:28 db2start

Add root to the user.db2inst1 project with a quick projmod -a -U root user.db2inst1 and try again. Continue reading →