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Building ISC DHCP 4.X on Solaris hosts
I attempted to upgrade my ISC DHCP installation to dhcp-4.1.1b1 this past weekend, and ran into the following configure error: Th config.log had a number of errors similar to the following: Which are due to missing system headers. I reviewed the list of packages that were installed, and sure enough SUNWhea (this package contains the various header files) was missing. I installed this package as well as a number of others: Any everything compiled and installed perfectly.
$ read more →Using the CPU power management features in Solaris
I mentioned previously that I built out some new hardware. When I was spec'ing out the hardware, I made sure to get "green" components that supported advanced power management features. Solaris is able to take advantage of the CPU power states, and can lower the processor operating frequency when a server is idle. Power managementis handled by the the Solaris kernel, and configured through the /etc/power.conf configuration file…
$ read more →Sun dropping support for the ROCK processor?
I just came across an OSNews report about Sun dropping development on the ROCK processor. At first I was a bit surprised by this, given the ROCK feature set Sun had been touting for several years. But in practice, this decision doesn't surprise me for a few reasons: 1. By the time the ROCK was feature complete and ready for market, Intel and AMD should be able to match its performance when you took cost into account…
$ read more →Speeding up Solaris package installation
This putback from Casper should make all Solaris admins happy:
$ read more →Dealing with slow lofs performance on opensolaris hosts
I went to update the Nevada image on my jumpstart server today, and noticed that my loopback mount was performing terribly: Ouch! 11 reads per second causes the loopback device to become 100% busy. It turns out this is bug 6806627 which is fixed in Nevada build 112. I got around the issue by using a Linux host to copy the CD contents, and then running setup_install_server from that location…
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