SmartOS News: Jan 11, 2013

January 11, 2013 by deirdre

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Multi-architecture package support in SmartOS - “Unfortunately, while the base SmartOS platform is set up to provide both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries, the packaging infrastructure we use, pkgsrc, has not traditionally supported building multi-architecture packages. This has meant we have needed to provide both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of each dataset, which is not ideal… In order to resolve this, I have been working on providing multi-architecture support to pkgsrc, and this work is now available for preview testing.” – Jonathan Perkin
DTrace and the little ustack helper that could – “Flamegraphs are awesome if you need to profile your node.js application. They provide a nice looking visual view of where your application is spending its time. Although they’re well documented, no one has ever said a word on how they work internally, but everyone mentions “ustack helper” which, right now, works only on SmartOS. ” - Fedor Indutny