<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>The Pythian Blog &#187; Solaris</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.pythian.com/news/tag/solaris/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.pythian.com/news</link>
	<description>News and views from Pythian DBAs</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:54:45 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Solaris 11 &#8211; First Impressions as Storage Server</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/28579/solaris-11-first-impressions-as-storage-server/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/28579/solaris-11-first-impressions-as-storage-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christo Kutrovsky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Group Blog Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zfs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pythian.com/news/?p=28579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Solaris 11 has been release a few days ago. I was anxious to upgrade as I was using Solaris Express 2010.11 for some time and I was hitting a couple of bugs. One was a nasty IP layer bug (BAD TRAP: type=e (#pf Page fault) rp=ffffff005c9b1040 addr=20 occurred in module &#8220;ip&#8221; due to a NULL [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.pythian.com/news/28579/solaris-11-first-impressions-as-storage-server/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>How to confirm DIRECT IO is getting used on Solaris</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/22727/how-to-confirm-direct-io-is-getting-used-on-solaris/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/22727/how-to-confirm-direct-io-is-getting-used-on-solaris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nalgonda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Group Blog Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIRECT IO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solaris]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pythian.com/news/?p=22727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi! Recently I was working on a task wherein I had to confirm if the direct IO is in use or not. filesystem_io_option database parameter was set to &#8220;DIRECTIO&#8221; to make use of directio. Now in Linux it becomes very easy.you just need to read /proc/slabinfo : cat /proc/slabinfo &#124; grep kio In the SLAB [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.pythian.com/news/22727/how-to-confirm-direct-io-is-getting-used-on-solaris/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Oracle Exadata Database Machine v2 vs x2-2 vs x2-8 Deathmatch</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/17071/oracle-exadata-database-machine-x2-8-x2-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/17071/oracle-exadata-database-machine-x2-8-x2-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle Exadata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comparison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[database machine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exadata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OEK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[v2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[v3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[x2-2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[x2-8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xeon 5600]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xeon X7560]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pythian.com/news/?p=17071</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post has bee updated live from the Oracle OpenWorld as I&#8217;m learning what&#8217;s new. Last update done on 28-Sep-2010. Oracle Exadata v2 has been transformed into x2-2 and x2-8. x2-2 is just slightly updated while x2-8 is a much more high-end platform. Please note that Exadata x2-2 is not just an old Exadata v2 [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.pythian.com/news/17071/oracle-exadata-database-machine-x2-8-x2-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Wish List of Oracle OpenWorld 2010 Announcements: Exadata v3 x2-8, Linux, Solaris, Fusion Apps, Mark Hurd, Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Cloud Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/16903/wish-list-of-oracle-openworld-2010-announcements-exadata-v3-linux-solaris-fusion-app-mark-hurd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/16903/wish-list-of-oracle-openworld-2010-announcements-exadata-v3-linux-solaris-fusion-app-mark-hurd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle Exadata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle Exalogic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[10GbE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consolidation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[database machine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exadata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exalogic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fusion Apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Hurd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OpenWorld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QoS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPARC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[v3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[x2-8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[x86]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pythian.com/news/?p=16903</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Sunday morning early in San Francisco and the biggest ever Oracle OpenWorld is about to start. It looks like it&#8217;s also going to be the busiest ever OpenWorld for me &#8212; my schedule looks crazy and I still need to do the slides for my Thursday sessions (one on ASM and one on cloud [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.pythian.com/news/16903/wish-list-of-oracle-openworld-2010-announcements-exadata-v3-linux-solaris-fusion-app-mark-hurd/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Determining I/O throughput for a system</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/15161/determining-io-throughput-for-a-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/15161/determining-io-throughput-for-a-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Group Blog Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[benchmark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hpux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[io throughput]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kaleidoscope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kscope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metrics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MySQL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[odtug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pythian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zlinux]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pythian.com/news/?p=15161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At Kscope this year, I attended a half day in-depth session entitled Data Warehousing Performance Best Practices, given by Maria Colgan of Oracle. In that session, there was a section on how to determine I/O throughput for a system, because in data warehousing I/O per second (iops) is less important than I/O throughput (how much [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.pythian.com/news/15161/determining-io-throughput-for-a-system/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Nobody Killed OpenSolaris &#8212; Stop the FUD!</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/10661/nobody-killed-opensolaris-stop-the-fud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/10661/nobody-killed-opensolaris-stop-the-fud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Licensing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OpenSolaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solaris]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pythian.com/news/?p=10661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Update 04-Aug-10: I&#8217;m happy to see The Illumos Project announcement. Update 17-Aug-10: So Oracle seems to drop OpenSolaris project. Let&#8217;s see if Illumos pulls it off. I&#8217;m tired reading all over the internet &#8212; Oracle taking back OpenSolaris, Open Solaris May Die ?, Solaris Is Dead, Save Open Solaris, Oracle taking back OpenSolaris. I&#8217;m so [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.pythian.com/news/10661/nobody-killed-opensolaris-stop-the-fud/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Oracle 11.2 Silent Installation on OpenSolaris</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/6487/oracle-11-2-silent-installation-on-opensolaris/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/6487/oracle-11-2-silent-installation-on-opensolaris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrey Goryunov</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[installation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OpenSolaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solaris]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pythian.com/news/?p=6487</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Oracle announced Oracle 11.2 for Solaris (x86-64), I decided to try a silent installation of Oracle on OpenSolaris, even though it is not certified. I downloaded the Solaris ISO and installed it as 64-bit on one of my virtual machines with 1Gb of RAM. Installation of the OS went without a problem and I [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.pythian.com/news/6487/oracle-11-2-silent-installation-on-opensolaris/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>HOWTO: Oracle Cross-Platform Migration with Minimal Downtime</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/3653/howto-oracle-cross-platform-migration-with-minimal-downtime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/3653/howto-oracle-cross-platform-migration-with-minimal-downtime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Seiler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solaris]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pythian.com/news/?p=3653</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently performed a migration from Oracle 10gR2 on Solaris to the same version on Linux, immediately followed by an upgrade to 11g. Both platforms were x86-64. Migrating to Linux also included migrating to ASM, whereas we had been using ZFS to hold the datafiles on Solaris. Restoring files into ASM meant we would have [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.pythian.com/news/3653/howto-oracle-cross-platform-migration-with-minimal-downtime/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>GNU basename in PL/SQL</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/1229/gnu-basename-in-plsql/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/1229/gnu-basename-in-plsql/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Seiler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[basename]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gnu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pl/sql]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1229/gnu-basename-plsql-style</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the process of scripting a database migration, I was in need of something akin to the GNU basename utility that I know and love on Linux. basename is most famous for taking a full file path string and stripping away the leading path component, returning just the name of the file. This can be [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.pythian.com/news/1229/gnu-basename-in-plsql/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Solaris Containers and MySQL</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/874/solaris-containers-and-mysql/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/874/solaris-containers-and-mysql/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Group Blog Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MySQL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solaris]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pythian.com/blogs/874/solaris-containers-and-mysql</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been running into a problem with one client: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tbl; takes 0.25 seconds on one db, and 0.06 seconds on another. Consistently. That&#8217;s a fourfold difference. There aren&#8217;t any significant configuration differences (like query cache, etc.), the software versions are the same, and the table fits into memory. This has been looked [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.pythian.com/news/874/solaris-containers-and-mysql/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

