Linux has multiple means of reporting CPU speed. This can make hardware discovery difficult depending on what source you attempt to use as your reference point. You may discover that two sources, such as cpuinfo and dmidecode produce entirely different results. Your first inclination will probably be that one of these is inaccurate but there …
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Linux Memory Monitoring
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 …
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 …
Issues Sharing Automount Home Directories from Solaris to Linux
I discovered this problem while attempting to share our automounted home directories from my Solaris 10 NFS file server to my SUSE and Red Hat Linux NFS clients. automount[10581]: >> mount: block device 192.168.0.2:/data/home/samiller is write-protected, mounting read-only kernel: call_verify: server 192.168.0.2 requires stronger authentication. It turns out that the solution is quite simple. The …
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Non-Measurable Organizational Value
In addition to the concept of the Measurable Organizational Value or MOV metric that I discussed several days ago, I believe that we need to look at its contrary “metric” – Non-Measurable Organizational Value or NMOV. Non-Measurable Organizational Value is the concept of corporate benefit being derived from a project that is inherently non-measurable. To …