Entries tagged with 'dtrace'

Links of interest for 5 Nov 2009 - 2 Dec 2009:

J is for JVM: Why the ‘J’ in JRuby? | Engine Yard Blog - A good explanation on why the guys behind jRuby like the J, aka Java Virtual Machine, part of JRuby. Interesting performance figures too when compared to the standard Ruby, especially considering [...]

Links of interest for 15 Mar 2009 - 24 Mar 2009:

Internet Archive to unveil massive Wayback Machine data center - Oooo, and it#039;s in a Sun Modular Datacentre (aka Project Blackbox) running Solaris 10 and ZFS.
The ‘IBM buys Sun’ story | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com - Interesting point of view on what#039;s happening with these [...]

If you’re ever had concerns about the effect of noise on your disk performance, let Brendan Gregg put your mind at rest. Thanks to the brilliant Analytics (aka Dtrace with a brilliant web interface) on the a Sun Storage 7410 we can clearly see noise does have an effect, and in this extreme case [...]

Links of interest for 3 Nov 2008 - 10 Nov 2008:

Fishworks: Now it can be told : The Observation Deck - Bryan Cantrill's recount of the road to Fishworks and Amber Road.
Fishworks Hardware Topology - Eric Schrock gives an intro to the chassi subsystem at the heart of the technology behind the Sun Storage 7000 [...]

Links of interest for 3 Sep 2008 - 11 Sep 2008:

10 Principles of the PHP Masters - Some very useful PHP tips here. Some new, some old.
Google restores Chrome’s shine - That's better. Now you can still keep ownership of everything you already own.
Hadoop Live CD at OpenSolaris.org - Distributed computing on a LiveCD. [...]

Links of interest for 1 Jul 2008 - 30 Jul 2008:

Direct Mounting of Files - As of snv_91, you no longer need lofi to mount a filesystem image, like an ISO. You can now call mount(1M) as you would a normal filesystem.
DTrace IP Provider - Cool. The first step of implementing TCP/IP DTrace providers [...]

OpenSolaris 2008.05, aka “Project Indiana” will be officially released to the world later today (US time), but it’s already available now for download from it’s dedicated site - www.opensolaris.com.
For the uninitiated, I’ll quote the OpenSolaris docs…

Links of interest for 13 Jan 2008 - 27 Jan 2008:

Transactional ZFS Upgrades on Nexenta - This is pretty impressive usage of ZFS. Once Solaris officially supports ZFS boot, this is a fantastic feature that could be added to patching and live upgrade.
Mystery web infection grows, but cause remains elusive - Pity no one seems [...]

Links of interest for 9 Nov 2007 - 22 Nov 2007:

Google as a password cracker - Another good use for Google - password cracking. Ok, it’s not true passpord cracking, but rather MD5 hash pattern matching.
Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Facebook Developers on Dell Servers. What does it mean? - I’m a very disappointed in [...]

Links of interest for 9 May 2007 - 13 May 2007:

About Project Indiana - Oooo, so that’s what Project Indiana is all about. Pity we heard about it from the press first. That said, it sounds like Ian’s got his head screwed on right and this’ll really drive OpenSolaris adoption.
Experts scramble to quash IPv6 [...]