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Ceri Davies — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:57:00 +0000

Our T2000 arrived. We went for the 8-core 1.0GHz, 16GB version to allow us to use the Solaris resource management tools to carve it up in various configurations.

So far I’ve used it to great effect to test out an Oracle Data Guard configuration that I’m building, and particularly to understand how you are supposed to set up your clients in order to benefit from the redundancy goodness — some notes on that will be forthcoming real soon as I couldn’t find a single useful document on that.

Michael Bushkov’s Summer of Code project, cached(8), which adds caching for nsswitch along with enabling nsswitch for the services, protocols and rpc databases finally got committed today. This is really interesting work, similar to nscd(1M) on Solaris¹, but with each user having their own cache.

Also, I discovered that a post on BSDNews is a good way to saturate a crappy cable modem link. :-)

Oh yeah, and John Birrell is making superb progress on a DTrace port to FreeBSD.

¹ Yes, nscd(1M) has a bad reputation, but I strongly believe that’s because people don’t understand how to work it.

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