As a Linux System Administrator one question that I get asked quite often is to look into memory issues. The Linux memory model is rather more complex that many other systems and looking into memory utilization is not always as straightforward as one would hope, but this is for a good reason that will be …
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February 11, 2008: No Sleep
We were right that there was going to be no sleep last night. We tried going to bed at eleven after having just walked Oreo three times in the last hour. But he needed to go out again at midnight. Then at one thirty. Then at three and again at a little after four. So …
February 10, 2008: Oreo Isn’t Feeling Well
Dominica decided that she was so close to finishing the entire first season of Dexter in a single sitting that she decided to just make a run for it and wrapped up around two in the morning. Oreo got me up in the middle of the night, as expected, for a walk. This always happens …
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February 9, 2008: Working All Day
Oreo was “featured” in an episode of 60 Seconds. See if you can spot him. I woke up early this morning. At a quarter after five I woke up and found myself not to be sleepy at all. I tried going back to sleep but had to luck. So I got up at five thirty …
Rsync on Solaris 10
I was interested to get Rsync up and running on my Solaris 10 server – an UltraSPARC based SunFire V100. To my dismay the Rsync package is not available for Solaris 10 from SUN. So I decided to set out on a journey to discover how exactly to get Rsync “the right way” and to …