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 !

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.

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.

Upgrade to Hardy Heron

UBuntu Hardy Heron Beta have been released ! The final release of Hardy will be end of April 2008 based on UBuntu 6 months release cycle !

To upgrade to Hardy Beta , I refer to this website as initial guide. I really the new background image for Hardy ! What a beauty !

Happy upgrade !

p/s
My wireless network is not working after the upgrade and its look like ipw9345 is being removed ! Shit !

VirtualBox v1.5.6 on UBuntu Gutsy

Solaris 10 is installing on VirtualBox v1.5.6. I am installing Solaris 10 using ISO image instead using the normal DVD.

Creating VirtualBox disk for guest OS is pretty straightforward. I am impressed with VirtualBox GUI. Damn simple !

You can grab a copy of the VirtualBox End User documentation from here

Let see how the performance of VirtualBox as compared to VMware. VMWare performance on my laptop is quite unpleasant when running both Window 2000 and Solaris 10.

Cube

I just love the CUBE !

VirtualBox on UBuntu Gutsy

I have been trying to install Solaris 10 on Ubuntu Gutsy using VirtualBox but it never go beyond this stage ...

Having searching around for clue , I decided to use the latest version of VirtualBox (v1.5.6) instead on v1.5.0.

Downloading it now and let hope it works !

Installation is pretty easy and instruction can be found here.

Update :
If you have installed the old version of VirtualBox (v1.5.0) , please do remove it first before installing the v1.5.6.

 # apt-get remove virtualbox-ose