Want to try out a Joyent SmartMachine for yourself, for free? Click here! SmartOS is Not GNU/Linux – “One of the requests we get from time to time is for SmartOS to look more like GNU/Linux in layout and behaviour. For example, config files in /etc instead of /opt/local/etc, binaries under /usrinstead of /opt/local/{s,}bin, GNU userland by default, etc. …We call [...]
Tag Archives: DTrace
SmartOS News: Jan 11, 2013
January 11, 2013 – 3:28 pm
Joyent Training in New York City Course Instructor Location Duration Upcoming Dates Cost Register SmartDataCenter Max Bruning New York City 3 Days Feb 13-15 $2,250 Here SmartOS Internals Max Bruning New York City 5 Days POSTPONED $3,750 ZFS Internals Max Bruning New York City 3 Days Mar 4-6 $2,250 Here Other News Multi-architecture [...]
SmartOS News: Dec 31, 2012
December 31, 2012 – 12:09 pm
Blog moved to SmartOS, but what’s the point of SmartOS really? - ”It’s quite simple: performance. Running SmartOS I’m using operating system-level virtualization.” SmartOS on Multi-Socket and the ACPI SRAT – “The ACPI SRAT describes the topology and nature of the processors and memory in your system. With it SmartOS can perform dynamic optimizations of memory [...]
dtrace.conf Videos
December 30, 2012 – 5:13 pm
Lest we all forget, we held a pretty damned good conference back in April, 2012, all about DTrace. For a good overview and wrap-up, see Adam’s blog post on dtrace.conf. Below is the complete list of talks and links to the videos. 8:30 AM registration, coffee by Stone Cobra, breakfast by DEY for illumos 9:00 opening 9:15 State of [...]
SmartOS News: Dec 21, 2012
December 21, 2012 – 12:25 pm
, ^ SmartOS variations Whatever and whenever you celebrate, Joyent and I wish you a happy winter holiday! Or summer, if you’re in Australia or New Zealand or… happy whatever! – Deirdré Training from Joyent! I will soon be scheduling the following courses in New York City, probably from mid-February: ZFS Internals (3 days) SmartOS Internals (5 [...]
Video: DTracing the Cloud
December 13, 2012 – 12:00 pm
Brendan Gregg at illumos Day. Cloud computing facilitates rapid deployment and scaling, often pushing high load at applications under continual development. DTrace allows immediate analysis of issues on live production systems even in these demanding environments – no need to restart or run a special debug kernel. For the illumos kernel, DTrace has been enhanced [...]
SmartOS News: Nov 14, 2012
November 14, 2012 – 5:08 pm
Joyent is hiring support engineers: “Joyent’s primary offices are in San Francisco, CA and Vancouver, British Columbia. Joyent Services has team members located throughout the US and UK. This position can be based in one of our office locations, or can be a work-from-home position. Joyent is currently recruiting in both North America (US and Canada), [...]
SmartOS Mugs and DTrace Ponies!
November 9, 2012 – 8:25 pm
@mcaleavya was one of the first people to buy a SmartOS mug, resulting in this tweet: Movember mugshot #joyent #smartos pic.twitter.com/VfntpcaQ Meanwhile, by popular demand, I’ve added items with the cute DTrace pony and @substack’s DTrace laser pony to our Café Press store! Be one of the first to get Cute Pony on a t-shirt – [...]
SmartOS News: Nov 1, 2012
November 1, 2012 – 12:10 pm
For all those who asked: “Hey! Where can I get that cool SmartOS coffee mug?” – now you can order it yourself! Enhanced OS Virtualization for the Cloud – Jerry Jelinek at illumos Day (video) Our DTrace scripts for NFS server, ZFS, and iSCSI initiator monitoring – “ I’ve built up a collection of DTrace scripts for [...]