This guide is an introduction to configuring the Sun Fire X4500 server as a disk-cache media server for the Symantec Veritas NetBackup application. It provides an example of configuring the ZFS file system on the Solaris 10 08/07 OS and configuring the NetBackup 6.5 application to utilize the Sun Fire X4500 server as its media server.
Good link to keep.
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T: DTrace
A short article that provides guidelines to developers & sysadmins to take real advantage of the newest CMT technologies like Sun servers based on UltraSparc T1.
79 pages in this pdf from http://developers.sun.com , co-written by Siebel & Sun.
BigAdmin article giving information about SLAMD. “SLAMD focuses only on application testing, with many advanced features dedicated to this activity. This is the ideal tool for the final qualification phase.”
An article that gives an overview of the similarities & differences of Solaris 10 and Linux 2.6 from the point of view of the application developer. The following topics are discussed :
* Sockets/Networking
* Process/Processor Management
* Threads
* Synchronization
* Memory Management
* Timers
* IPC
* Signal Handling
Interesting developers.sun.com article which gives information on the advantages & disadvantages of using Memory Overcommit Allocation.
Also discussed in the inclusion of a new syscall in Solaris 10 : posix_spawn(), the now preferred way to call external programs from within an application. Better than fork & exec.
Found on the Solaris Internals website, this is a draft of one of the upcoming chapters of the 2nd edition of the Solaris Internals famous book.
T: OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, MDB
Good article to enter into DTrace even if you don’t really want to ( not enough time, energy, background, courage,…). Just enter by the DTrace toolkit door.
T: DTrace, OpenSolaris, Solaris 10
The three areas covered by the author are thread scheduling, memory management and filesystems. Quite interesting to find out how things are done in other Unix flavours.