Saturday, May 24, 2008

Redmine on Glassfish v3

Look like someone is faster than me ! It's have been my to do list to run Redmine on top of Glassfish. I have existing Redmine installation that running on top of Apache and Mongrel (the usual suspect). Well big thanks to Arun Gupta, now we have Redmine on Glassfish v3. Time to get some performance statistic between Apache+Mongrel and Glassfish v3.

Wondering maybe I should do it on Glassfish v2 too....just a thaught !

Friday, May 16, 2008

This is what I want ...

I have been downloading a lot of Sun software recently and most of the time I am using the Sun Download Manager (SDM) tool as the download manager. I must admit when I first used the SDM earlier version, I was not too impressed but lately Sun have been putting some attention to it.

That alright to me. But I still prefer to download it using some text command such as ncftp or wget.
And here it go, you used wget command to download Sun software.

Friday, May 2, 2008

Solaris Performance ToolsCD 3.0 available online

I got this news from Sun Blog (thanks - Stefan). This is what I have been looking for !

You can download it directly from here.

Here a brief description (from the Su Blog)

At Sun, for our customers and partners, the Solaris Performance ToolsCD is a well known project of the Frankfurt benchmark center since 1999. This collection of (public domain) tools on a CD enables you to analyze on optimize Sun systems. The tools are used and maintained on a daily basis during our benchmark projects. The CD covers as well many information and links to performance related literature.
This is the fourth release of the ToolsCD with the focus on Solaris 10 support for SPARC and x86/x64 based Sun systems.

The CD covers within 300 MB:

  • dimSTAT v8.1 - collect and analyze performance data

  • Dtrace Tools - Brendan Gregg's collection of Dtrace scripts

  • K9Toolkit - freeware tools written using the KStat library on a Solaris 9

  • sysperfstat - displays utilization and saturation for CPU, memory, disk and network, all on one line.

  • cpuinfo - displays CPU configuration (number, type, clock and strands)

  • meminfo - displays configuration of physical memory and swap devices or files

  • iobar - displays io for disk-devices in a |cpubar|-like fashion

  • iotop - displays |iostat -x| in a |top|-like fashion

  • checkcable - prints the link up status for network interfaces

  • nicstat - prints statistics for the network interfaces such as KBytes/s read and write, Packets/s etc.