Received this mail: Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 02:15:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Mohammed 10vir To: solaris-l@Groups.ITtoolbox.com, sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org, “os_solaris@yahoogroups.com” , “scsa-scna@yahoogroups.com” , “solaris-cert@yahoogroups.com” , “solaris10@yahoogroups.com” , “solaris8@yahoogroups.com” , “solaris9@yahoogroups.com” , “solaris_adm@yahoogroups.com” , “solaris_admin@yahoogroups.com” , “solaris_cert@yahoogroups.com” , “solaris_lovers@yahoogroups.com” , “solaris_security@yahoogroups.com” , “solarissysadmin1@yahoogroups.com” , “solarissysadmin@yahoogroups.com” Subject: Processor Faulted ERROR….. I’m not sure this
Definition of load average
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!
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!
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?
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
/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
I really like this one! (found by my wife)
How memory can disturb your night?
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
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?
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 🙂