I have just pushed a patch to libmemcached that allows you to build libmemcached with the static DTrace probes. Please note that I haven't had the time yet to look at probes it contains (and if they ...
I was reading about the Amistad case on Wikipedia, and noticed the interesting role that Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr., the theologian, had played in finding a Mende speaker. (Gibbs learned how to say ...
I have been using libumem and LD_PRELOAD to track down memory allocation problems in a lot of applications over the years, and I just love the runtime linker on Solaris (AFAIK you will find some of ...
Based on Alex Eremin 's blog entry on minimal script and some of my own hacking, I have a script that should allow to create a basic PostgreSQL 8.3 Appliance using OpenSolaris 2008.11 Kernel in ...
PostgreSQL 8.3, by improving the Stats system, has made it very easy to find your useless indexes. These are indexes which aren't being used by any regular query, and don't enforce a constraint.
This year CommunityOne is being held also in New York (March 18, 2009) in addition to the CommunityOne held in San Francisco (June 1, 2009). CommunityOne is a conference sponsored by Sun ...
The recently released OpenSolaris 2008.11 comes with Java DB 10.4.2.1. One of the new features compared to the Java DB version in OpenSolaris 2008.05 is support for SMF (Service Management Facility). ...
The second supported version of OpenSolaris called OpenSolaris 2008.11 is now officially launched. With the release, I guess now PostgreSQL 8.3 is now "officially" supported on OpenSolaris too ...
Apache Derby (and Java DB ) has supported language-based ordering of strings (aka territory-based collation) since version 10.3.1.4. This means for instance that you can get an ORDER BY clause in an ...
With the release of JavaFX 1.0 , a new version of Netbeans 6.5 is now also available. Let's quickly look at its current PostgreSQL Support. The JDBC driver for PostgreSQL is integrated in Netbeans ...
When we implemented support for the binary protocol in the server we assigned the protocol header to a struct with the following code snippet: protocol_binary_request_header* req; req = ...
If you run your memcached -server on Solaris you can easily display the 10 most popular keys in you memcached server by using dtrace. The following little script will display the 10 most popular keys ...
Over the years I have accumulated quite a bit of digital content (music, pictures, videos, archived tax returns, etc) and have used external drives, CDs/DVDs, and even USB sticks to backup the data. ...
The memcached server stores an 8-byte big unique id for each item that is stored (or updated), so that you can ask the server to do some operations on the items if and only if the has the value you ...
MySQL Query Analyzer is already helping people to drastically improve their application performance. Jeff Freund (CTO, Clickability) shares an interesting use case .
Hyperic just released Hyperic HQ 4.x, and I recently took it for a test drive on OpenSolaris 2008.05 . The installation went smoothly, but I ran into one issue when starting the server. With a 64-bit ...
Recently I burned a copy of OpenSolaris 2008.11 RC1 and used it with Songbird (using pkg install SUNWsongbird ) and Fluendo MP3 Decoder (which is free for OpenSolaris), Flash and soon I had a setup ...
Continuing on my earlier blog entry on setting PostgreSQL using Amber Road devices , let's now look at how to take snapshots for such systems. Considering a typical PostgreSQL system there are two ...
Somehow I must have missed this try and buy offer before. Evaluate the Sun Fire X4600 with PostgreSQL, MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 . The Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server included in the program is ...
I have been working on the engine interface lately, and I am happy to say that I have just uploaded the document to the memcached wiki at http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/EngineInterface . ...
Sun just announced a new line of storage appliances that will forever change the NAS appliance market. By using OpenSolaris and technologies such as ZFS, DTrace, FMA and SMF with standard-based ...
The New Sun Microsystems announced a new line of OpenStorage devices. The new Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (code name Amber Road ) are Storage appliances which uses ZFS as the core ...
Sun demonstrates compelling price/performance advantage of enterprise supported Open Source. Using Glassfish V2 U2 / MySQL 5.0/ OpenSolaris on commodity Sun Intel hardware (i.e. SunFire X4150 Intel ...
You might be wondering what's been happening with MySQL performance since Sun arrived on the scene. The good news is that we haven't been idle. There's been general recognition that MySQL could ...
The New Sun Microsystems announced a new Glassfish/MySQL/OpenSolaris SPECjAppServer2004 result today. The real highlight is that all software used in this benchmark is all Open Source Software. It ...