SPARC presentations at Hotchips 25 26 Aug 2013 | 08:47 pm

I think we will see some news in the usual news outlets about upcoming SPARC silicon soon. The agenda of the currently running Hotchips 25 conference has three presentations related to SPARC: "SPARC6...

Javapocalypse 26 Aug 2013 | 01:02 pm

Less known Solaris 11.1 features: A user in 1024 groups and a workaround for a 25 year old problem 26 Aug 2013 | 12:12 am

For a long time the maximum number of groups a user could belong to was 16, albeit there was a way to get 32. In Solaris 11 and recent versions of Solaris 10, the maximum number of groups a user could...

T-class power management 22 Aug 2013 | 12:20 pm

Interesting (recently updated) whitepaper about using power management on T-class servers:"How to Save Power on SPARC T5 and SPARC M5 Servers".

Oracle VM for SPARC 3.1 20 Aug 2013 | 11:17 pm

Oracle VM for SPARC 3.1 has been announced. You will find the documentation here. There is a multitude of new features in this release. Honglin Su writes about the news in the blog article "Announcing...

Less known Solaris 11.1 features: rsyslog 20 Aug 2013 | 01:39 pm

Solaris 11.1 has now the rsyslog on board, an extended variant of the normal syslog. However the ORACLE SOLARIS 11.1—WHAT’S NEW is mistakable in this regard. Indeed the normal syslog is activated by d...

segkp revisited 19 Aug 2013 | 04:24 pm

I wrote about it a while ago, but in the light of recent questions from customer i want to reiterate this, because with the massive compute power of a T5 or T4 i'm seeing higher an higher process coun...

20 years Second Reality 18 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm

There is an easy way to know for sure that you are now an old geezer: You remember sitting in front of a video showing a demo developed by Future Crew back in 1993 you've tried as a burn-test for your...

Less known Solaris features: pfedit - editing is not everything 18 Aug 2013 | 06:58 pm

You have allowed junior to edit the httpd.conf and you are capable to monitor the changes with pfedit. However there is a little problem. She or he can't restart the apache demon to make the new confi...

Less known Solaris 11.1 features: Auditing pfedit usage 17 Aug 2013 | 10:30 am

You have allowed junior to edit the httpd.conf and and some nice evening, you are sitting at home. Then: You get alerts on your mobile: Webserver down. You log into the server. You check the httpd.con...