Posts Tagged ‘tips’

Home Server Users, Here Are Seven Useful Tips

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Getting Familiar with OpenSolaris Is One of the Most Important

Seven tips for OpenSolaris ZFS home server users are offered to readers by Constantin Gonzalez, one of Sun Germany’s principal field technologists. These are tips, he writes, that he found useful in performing his own home server planning, building and installing. 

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“Web Site Performance Tips and Tools”

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Simple Suggestions, Resource Links Offered

Java Technology Evangelist Carol McDonald has posted a list of web site performance tips and tools with simple suggestions on how to improve web site performance along with links to a variety of tools to help resolve common issues faced by many users.

 

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Ten DTrace Scripts Proven Helpful

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Prefetch Technologies, a site of reference materials for open source utilities, has outlined what it views as the Top Ten DTrace Scripts:

Number 10: Print Utilization statistics per process
Number 9: File System Flush Activity
Number 8: Seek Sizes
Number 7: Print Overall Paging Activity
Number 6: Getting System Wide errno Information
Number 5: I/O per process
Number 4: I/O Sizes Per Process
Number 3: TCP Top
Number 2: Who’s paging and DTrace enhanced vmstat
Number 1. I/O Top

Included with each are script samples, which the author chose since they are the ones “that have helped me debug and solve problems on the Solaris 10 servers I support.”