OpenSolaris B56 SX:CR Released: Solaris Resource Control for Zones (Really) Arrives!
Doownload it now. Behold the power of Duckhorn: zonecfg:z00001AS> info zonename: z00001AS zonepath: /zones/z00001AS brand: native autoboot: true bootargs: pool: limitpriv: scheduling-class: FSS [max-lwps: 5000] [cpu-shares: 10] inherit-pkg-dir: dir: /lib inherit-pkg-dir: dir: /platform inherit-pkg-dir: dir: /sbin inherit-pkg-dir: dir: /usr net: address: x ...
OpenSolaris Governance: It’s time to start caring
I've been involved in OpenSolaris Governance from the very beginning, but I've remained silent about it in this blog all that time because I didn't feel it was at a place where most people should really worry about it. That time has ended. If you are interested in OpenSolaris Governance, now is the time to start caring, learning, watching, and getting involved. To briefly bring you up to date, we've always know that for OpenSolaris to ...
Joyent Presents at Silicon Valley OpenSolaris Users Group!
Alan DuBoff announced that yours truly will be presenting this Thursday night. I'll be talking about what we're doing at Joyent, share some experiences working with Sun and with running OpenSolaris, ZFS, and Thumpers in production and touch on a lot of areas such as: Nevada X4100's Containers Accounting Resource Control DTrace Troubleshooting in the real world ...and much much more. Plus, I'll have Joyent "FSCK YOU" shirts to ...
Sun & Intel: Digesting the News
So after letting the news sink in a bit I can be a little more focused. There are a lot of angles, so lets take 'em one by one. From the un-involved Shareholder standpoint this is a good thing. It means that Sun can branch out to a wider audience, isn't reliant on a single vendor for its X86 offerings, and is on even footing with other systems companies that are offering both Intel and AMD. Intel is a strong company and with the help ...
Sun and Intel: WTF!?!
I'm waiting for the webcast to really comment, but I'll give you my immediate knee-jerk reaction just for the record: WHAT. THE. FUCK. Talk about a slap in the face to AMD. I'm deeply disappointed.
Adventures off the Net
Loosing your internet connectivity can sometimes be considered a forcible break from the hustle and bustle of life on the net.... unless you work from home. Last week my Comcast Internet connectivity started tweeking on me. Network speeds dropped significantly but I brushed it away as network troubles or upgrades or something. The speed issues got worse and worse to the point that just logging into a system via ssh took minutes. We did ...
SysAdmin of the Year
This is old news, but in case you missed it, the Splunk initiated 'first annual Sysadmin of the Year (SAOTY) contest" list of winners was announced in early December. View the list of winners here. Congrats to Michael Beck for being crowned SA of the Year. On a personal note, thanks to those of you who nominated me. I'll have to work even harder next year and steal the trophy for Joyent. ;)
So long 2006…
2006 just became history. A very long and strange year for me. Very little remarkable happened, and perhaps thats as it should, I'm settling into life a bit more. But sometimes keepin' on can be a sign of something positive, that its working, and growing, and maturing. So it is with me and so it is with OpenSolaris. 2006 was an important period in time for OpenSolaris. The fury of excitement surrounding Solaris going open faded ...
Waiting to go back to the future…
I brick'ed my workstation about 3 weeks ago when BFU'ing to the December Crossbow Beta. Thanks to ZFS no data was harmed, just reinstall a fresh Solaris SX:CR and reimport the pool. I was busy and didn't have time to reinstall Enlightenment, so I just put up with JDS. JDS sucks.... GNOME in general is just lame. Tonight I built Enlightenment 16.8.5 (kwo is the man). I've been running DR17 for several months so I thought it was time ...
Ruby SVN on Solaris
Some very kool news found a Ruby-lang.org. The new machine for svn.ruby-lang.org is provided by Sun Microsystems. We are using Solaris 10 on the new machine, and it works pretty well. At Joyent we've got hundreds of Rail's sites on OpenSolaris and we're absolutely certain that there is no better platform for Rails deployment. Ruby and Sun are definately becoming an item.