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Definition of load average

May 9, 2006 OS Leave a comment

As seen in my previous post, the load average can become very high. But what does mean those numbers? This question was also posted a few days ago on misc@openbsd.org and here are two replies: > I’m looking for some hints on evaluating load average. You can’t. It’s a statement

Overloaded!

May 9, 2006 Fun Comments Off

I just installed the latest cluster patch on a Solaris 10 x86 box and rebooted: # w 2:26pm up 3 min(s), 1 user, load average: 10961.51, 25724.39, 12887.02 User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what mex pts/2 2:26pm w

We’re all big children!

May 5, 2006 Websites Leave a comment

Everybody knows ThinkGeek. Who never bought a gadget there? 😉 I found another interesting site for all of us: PerpetualKid (Unique Products to Entertain your Inner Child) My wishlist will be updated and posted here soon! 😉

Solaris & yesterday date?

May 4, 2006 Unix Comments Off

The GNU version of date(1) has a nice flag –date. It’s very easy to format dates in the past or future: $ date +%d-%m-%Y 04-05-2006 $ date –date yesterday +%d-%m-%Y 03-05-2006 $ date –date “-6 months” +%d-%m-%Y 04-11-2005 The Solaris version of date(1) has no such nice flags. So, how

Nice box

April 29, 2006 Hardware Comments Off

/me is playing with a nice box this morning… 90 processes: 89 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle total 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.8% 395.2% cpu00 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% cpu01 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%

Tux soap dispenser

April 23, 2006 Fun Leave a comment

I really like this one! (found by my wife)

How memory can disturb your night?

April 22, 2006 Business Comments Off

WTF! 2:0>ERROR: TEST = Block Memory 2:0>H/W under test = CPU2 Bank 0 Dimm 2, J8001 side 1 2:0>Repair Instructions: Replace items in order listed by ‘H/W under test’ above. 2:0>MSG = DIMM failure Bank 0 DIMM 2 Pin 195 2:0>END_ERROR Results: my night was spent testing DIMM memory modules…

Wine installation on Solaris 5.11

April 21, 2006 Unix 2 comments

The goal of this installation is to run a native Solaris 10 on my notebook, using BrandZ (See my previous post) to run Linux applications in a zone and Wine to run Windows tools. Why do I need Windows binaries support? I’m using tools which run only on a Wintel

32 or 64 bits Solaris?

April 21, 2006 Unix Comments Off

Want to know how many bits handles your Solaris kernel? # isainfo -kv 64-bit amd64 kernel modules I always forget this command! Grrr…. So I wrote it here 🙂