Solaris : Configuring Kernel Parameters
You can display the current kernel parameters values by using the ‘sysdef -i’ command.
Category: Solaris Kernel
Solaris Kernel Information Center
Read – Using Truss to Identify the Signals sending to a Process Read – Standard file descriptors Read – General Procedure for Kernel Patching in Solaris. Read – Configuring Kernel Parameters Read – Configuring Inter process communication Parameters Read– Monitoring Kernel Memory Utilization Read– tune and...
Solaris Troubleshooting : Using Truss to Identify the Signals sending to a Process
One of the Sample Issue: Customer frequently sees in /var/adm/messages syslogd: going down on signal 15 which indicates that the system rebooted from a normal shutdown or init 6, yet no reboot has actually occurred and uptime indicates that no reboot occurred. If you stop the...
Solaris : Standard file descriptors
There are three standard file descriptors: stdin 0 – Standard input to the program. stdout 1 – Standard output from the program. stderr 2 – Standard error output from the program. Normally, input is from the keyboard or a file. Output, both stdout and...
General Procedure for Kernel Patching in Solaris.
General Procedure for Kernel Patching in Solaris: We are getting multiple requests for Solaris Kernel Patching procedure from many of your Gurkul Followers. Here we go with all the steps for all of them. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure (when...
Solaris 10 : Configuring Interprocess communication Parameters
Many system administrators, particularly those managing large database servers, have had difficulty tuning shared memory and semaphore parameters in /etc/system. Often, these difficulties are experienced before starting an application instance. The Solaris 10 Operating System addresses this issue by integrating the System V IPC tunables into...
Solaris Troubleshooting : Monitoring Kernel Memory Utilisation :
Memory usage checking and troubleshooting First you’ll need to check how much Memory is used in Kernel and how much is used in User Memory. This is important to decide, what troubleshooting steps are required.