I’m excited! My employer is flying me to Orlando to attend EMC World. The event, which begins Monday the 18th and runs through Thursday the 21st, is where folks like me can catch up on storage and virtualization trends and get some hands on sessions. My focus will be in the Clariion and Symmetrix product [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2009’
I’m a Janitor
A good friend once told me that System Administrators are a lot like Janitors. As long as we’re doing our jobs, no one knows we exist. We lurk in the shadows of the data center like trolls. Though I prefer the term “Custodian”, since it conveys the sentiment of being a care taker. Which is [...]
Patch and Rebuild Redhat Kernel for atop enhanced statistics
I recently saw an example of topas running in a colleague’s putty session, and wondered whether a similar advanced utility existed for Linux. While top is good for the quick and dirty view into Linux goings on, there surely must be a utility that gives a more detailed view into Linux resource usage, like topas does for AIX. So I did some looking around and found atop. In order to get the full benefit of additional per-process statistics from atop, kernel patches are needed that provide the necessary counters. I thought this was a good opportunity to do two things then. Patch a Redhat Enterprise kernel to get full benefit of atop and then recompile the newly patched source into an installable kernel RPM.
First Post ;-)
This is my very first post on the VirtFoundry blog, after much procrastination. As I gain momentum, I want to try to write three good quality posts per week and some snippets here and there of Linux related how-to’s, scripts, command lines etc. Things that I feel may be helpful or insightful. And possibly some [...]
