Tag: solaris

  • Feeding Query Analyzer from DTrace

    One of the new features in the new release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor is Query Analyzer. As the name suggests, the Query Analyzer provides information about the queries that are running on your server, the response times and row and byte statisti…

  • MySQL on OpenSolaris Presentation/Transcript Now Available

    As I mentioned earlier this week, I did a presentation on MySQL in OpenSolaris today. The presentation (audio and slides) is now viewable online (and downloadable), and you can also get hold of the transcript of the questions: here (or download). …

  • MySQL University: MySQL and OpenSolaris

    On Thursday, November 13, 2008 (14:00 UTC / 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET), I’ll be presenting a MySQL University session on MySQL and OpenSolaris. The presentation will be similar to the presentation I did at the London OpenSolaris Users Group in July, y…

  • ZFS Replication for MySQL data

    At the European Customer Conference a couple of weeks back, one of the topics was the use of DRBD. DRBD is a kernel-based block device that replicates the data blocks of a device from one machine to another. The documentation I developed for that …

  • Resources for Running Solaris OS on a Laptop

    As Solaris gets more and more popular I’m seeing more and more people running Solaris on a laptop as their primary operating system. I’ve even got friends who have migrated over completely to Solaris from Linux. I’ve been using it for years and ma…

  • Solaris 08/07 impressions

    New versions of Solaris keep coming out apace, and with each new version we see improvements and enhancements, both from the core Solaris group and from the cooperation with the OpenSolaris teams. Solaris 10 8/07 came out last year, but it takes a…

  • Comparing 32-bit/64-bit MySQL on OpenSolaris

    I’ve been working with the folks working on OpenSolaris for a few months now providing advice and input on getting MySQL and the connectors (C/ODBC and C/J) installed as a standard component. Having got the basics in, the team are now looking at a…

  • Getting Best out of MySQL on Solaris

    I’m still working up some good tips and advice on MySQL on Solaris (particularly the T1000, the new x86 based servers like the X4150 and ZFS, amongst other things), but until then I found Getting Best out of MySQL on Solaris while doing some resea…

  • Mysterious crashes? – check your temporary directory settings

    Just recently I seem to have noticed an increased number of mysterious crashes and terminations of applications. This is generally on brand new systems that I’m setting up, or on existing systems where I’m setting up a new or duplicate account. In…

  • Brian is having the same issues

    I mentioned the problem with setting up the stack on a new Solaris box yesterday and then realized this morning that I’d already added Brian Aker’s blog posting on the same issues to my queue (Solaris, HOW-TO, It works… Really…). Brian mention…