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Comment on Installing the memcached Ruby Gem on Solaris by Ben Summers

Ben Summers — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:00:43 +0000

You can’t use native extensions, even if they were supported it’d break the real multi-threading. But all the important ones have java versions instead, eg Mongrel.

isitjruby.com used to have some compatibility info, but it looks like it’s down or it’s been taken off air, given the Joyent holding page.

It’s unlikely to be as much of a problem as you might think, though.

Comment on Installing the memcached Ruby Gem on Solaris by Alasdair

Alasdair — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:54:14 +0000

How do gems with native extensions work with JRuby? Do you have to avoid using them?

Comment on Installing the memcached Ruby Gem on Solaris by Ben Summers

Ben Summers — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:31:25 +0000

Ah, the joys of compiling software on Solaris.

One of the beauties of using JRuby rather than the standard Ruby is that you don’t have to worry about this sort of thing. Just find the Java library that you want, and use it from your Ruby code. In most cases, the Java library is higher quality and much faster.

Of course, doing this isn’t so easy when you’re hosting software which already exists. :-(

Comment on SNMP Monitoring of LSI MegaRaid Cards by Ryan Dutton

Ryan Dutton — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:53:28 +0000

I have a HP DL160 G5 with a HP SC40Ge controller (re-branded SAS1064ET) and this is exactly what I needed, a simple way to monitor the disk status. You would expect HP to provide this information but their support for Debian is almost non-existant. Thanks for your helpful post.

Comment on Text relocation remains against symbol, libx264 by Greg

Greg — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:27:35 +0000

If you use the -mimpure-text option, your libx264.so.67 gets linked. But, when you link the lib to an executable, and attempt to execute it, the same error is likely to occur agaain:
ld.so.1: : fatal: relocation error: R-AMD64_32: file libx264.so.67: …

Comment on Installing OpenSolaris/Solaris on a Fasthosts Dedicated Server by Alasdair

Alasdair — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:14:55 +0000

Hi Paul,

Sorry for not approving/replying sooner - missed the email from Wordpress and only saw the comment waiting when I logged in.

You have to have a Windows or Samba server sat unprotected on the internet (with no firewall or the correct ports open) for the ERIC card to connect to.

Then you just supply the details. I think one quirk was you have to put the iso image you’re using in a subfolder rather than in the root of the share.

After a lot of fiddling I got it to work but there wasn’t too much magic involved.

Comment on Nagios 3.2.0 coredumps when started via SMF on Solaris 10 by Alasdair

Alasdair — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:13:06 +0000

Hi Peter,

Thanks for that additional info - useful to know :)

Cheers,

Alasdair

Comment on Nagios 3.2.0 coredumps when started via SMF on Solaris 10 by Peter Eriksson

Peter Eriksson — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:46:06 +0000

I’ve found a couple of other problems with Nagios on Solaris 10 too…

When you have a large setup with many hosts and many services the default “rlimit” on “descriptors” (256) is too low, which causes file leaks in /var/nagios/spool/checkcommands
(when I found it we had accumulated about 600K files there :-)

Raising the limit to “unlimited” causes “check_dns” to coredump instead… Setting it to 1024 seems to work better though.

Comment on Installing OpenSolaris/Solaris on a Fasthosts Dedicated Server by Paul Prior

Paul Prior — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:57:57 +0000

Fasthosts have close my calls 4 times and never demostrated how to mount the CD image. What format did you use for each field (Username/Password/Share Name/path to image/etc)? Fasthosts support is by far the worst I have ever had to deal with.

Comment on Solaris as an iSCSI Server with ZFS by Valery

Valery — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:08:35 +0000

Hello and thanks a lot for the useful, detailed post! I was able to set up iSCSI between my Solaris 10 box and Windows XP in less than an hour from scratch.