Today, In one of the server 42 % of the Physcial Memory has been allocated to ZFS File Data. root@qctsun02:/tmp# echo ::memstat | mdb -k Page Summary Pages MB %Tot ———— —————- —————- —- Kernel 337924 2640 16% ZFS File Data 884736 6912 42% Anon 694708 5427 33% Exec and libs 27627 215 1% Page […]
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Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) From the {0} ok (OpenBoot prompt), type #. to get to sc> prompt Note: #. (Hash-Period) character sequence is the default escape character sequence for ALOM. You can change the first character in the escape sequence by using the sc_escapechars variable. For example: sc> setsc sc_escapechars a. {0} ok Copyright
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Syntax: unzip {.zip-file-name}-d {/path/to/extract} For example extract package.zip into /opt, enter: # unzip 10_Recommended.zip -d /10_Recommended-29-May-2013/ # cd /10_Recommended-29-May-2013/ # ls
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How to Enable Multipathing Become an administrator. Confirm that the multipathing software package is installed. # pkg info system/storage/multipath-utilities Name: system/storage/multipath-utilities Summary: Solaris Multipathing CLI Description: Path Administration Utility for a Solaris Multipathing device Category: Applications/System Utilities State: Installed Publisher: solaris Version: 0.5.11 Build Release: 5.11 Branch: 0.175.0.0.0.0.0 Packaging Date: Tue Sep 27 01:40:01 2011
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Display your current root pool status. # zpool status rpool pool: rpool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors Attach a second disk to configure a mirrored root pool. # zpool attach rpool c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0 Please
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Firstly, check where your swap file is (it will be a ZFS volume created during the Solaris installation): bash-3.00# swap -l swapfile dev swaplo blocks free /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 256,1 16 4194288 4194288 Then you will need to unmount it: bash-3.00# swap -d /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap You should validate it
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The find utility on linux allows you to pass in a bunch of interesting arguments, including one to execute another command on each file. We’ll use this in order to figure out what files are older than a certain number of days, and then use the rm command to delete them. Command Syntax find /path/to/files* -mtime
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This chapter discusses tuning the operating system (OS) for optimum performance. It discusses the following topics: Server Scaling Solaris 10 Platform-Specific Tuning Information Tuning for the Solaris OS Tuning for Solaris on x86 Tuning for Linux platforms Tuning UltraSPARC CMT-Based Systems Server Scaling This section provides recommendations for optimal performance scaling server for the following
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This chapter describes how to tune Oracle Database. It contains the following sections: Importance of Tuning Operating System Tools Tuning Memory Management Tuning Disk I/O Monitoring Disk Performance System Global Area Tuning the Operating System Buffer Cache 1.1 Importance of Tuning Oracle Database is a highly optimizable software product. Frequent tuning optimizes system performance and
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Solaris 10 is secure by default and starts services on localhost instead of system name or all hosts(*) . Due to that if you try to connect to server over xdmcp using exceed on demand or something you won’t get connection. For that we need to use following method to fix it. if you issue
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