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Sun SysAdmin
17 Mar 2008
#19580
Filebench 1.1.1 Released
Adds "Run to Completion" Modes of Operation

Filebench 1.1.1 is now available, making it "much nicer for workloads that are designed to do X amount of work (as opposed to workloads that ask how much work can get done in X amount of time)," writes Sun's Eric Kustarz, who notes that the workloads bringover, createfiles, copyfiles and deletefiles have been updated to take advantage of this.

17 Mar 2008
#19595
Getting Your Feet Wet with DTrace
Jim Laurent Suggests Several Useful Tools

Jim Laurent uses an illuminating metaphor in writing about DTrace in his blog, where he likens the facility to a CAT scan that in turn allows users to see things as doctors, who heal the sick, rather than as coroners, who search for causes of death. His blog highlights a number of tools that can make using DTrace somewhat less formidable than starting with only the 400 page instruction manual.

17 Mar 2008
#19662
Free Sun Management Center 4.0 Version 3 Download
Adds Support for Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers

The Sun Management Center (MC) 4.0 has a new release meant to replace version 2. The Sun MC 4.0 Version 3.0 adds support for Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers and comes with add-on software and documentation.

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