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Max Bruning’s course in Berlin, Germany
I’m bursting with envy… I do wish that one day we could have similar classes in my country.
Faster ::memstat
A new updated ::memstat mdb command is coming to Solaris. Read more details here. In short, the expected speedup ranges from 13X up to 500X in the best cases, so if you’re sitting behind M9000 you’ll certainly praise it.
Two weeks under the sun and the crystal clear sea
It’s now just a one week before my holidays and I returned back to Moscow to avoid last minute preparation hassle and to pack my stuff neatly and in accurate manner. Since I’ll be traveling with my wife, she is in her fifth month, and a 3 years-old son, there won’t be as many as […]
Is 6320 array ready disabled?
If you like me have to deal with Sun StorEdge 6320 array, I bet that at least once in your life you’ve seen it reporting that some of its disk are in “ready disabled” state. When I saw it for the very fist time I scratched my head extensively and the only remedy reported on […]
MPxIO and DMP
It’s highly recommended to set dmp_fast_recovery to off if you use DMP over MPxIO. # vxdmpadm settune dmp_fast_recovery=off For more details refer to the official document
Why bother, Amazon?!
Two days ago I, as many out there, received an email from Amazon with an offer inside to make a pre-order for upcoming Snow Leopard. Gee whiz, I’d love to do that, thank you Amazon! But… Hey… Stop… I live in a country you don’t ship CDs/DVDs to. With a faint hope they’d changed something […]
Vyazemy on Sunday
It has become a good tradition to visit a new place on Saturday/Sunday and the last weekend wasn’t an exception from this pleasant rule. Instead of driving for hours this time we went to a place that was just around the corner – country estate Vyazemy. I’m not going to retell the history of this […]
Few photos from Nizhniy Novgorod
Finally I had a chance to sit behind my laptop to upload several photos I took during a short trip to Nizhniy Novgorod.
RLE and SL500
As I predicted in my previous post, you could never be 100% sure about this library, and unfortunately I was right. This time I had a weird issue when two of four tape drives (0,2,2,9 and 0,2,3,9) in the DEM were reported as inoperable whilst the other two were fine. But when I swapped the […]
Volokolamsk and Yaropolets
Just a few photos from the exciting trip we did last saturday to Vlokolamsk and Yaropolets. I always loved old, small but very magnetic places like these two where you could just forget about bustling life’s current we’re going with rapidly into nowhere.