Solaris

High Memory Utilized by ZFS File Data in Solaris

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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How to Enable / Disable Multipathing Solaris 11 ?

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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How to Increase swap size on Solaris (using ZFS) solaris 11

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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Delete Files Older Than x Days on Linux / Unix

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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Tuning the Unix Operating System and Platform

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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Operating System Tuning for Oracle Database

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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