Monthly Archives: April 2009

Observability and Diagnosis Techniques are the way forward

I’ve just closed down another escalation involving a performance comparison of an application (Finacle in this case) running on a 6 board SunFire 6900 and a 6 board SunFire E25K. Obviously we’re not comparing apples and pears here but never … Continue reading

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Hobbes to Nevada build 112

It’s been a little while since I upgraded Hobbes to the latest Nevada release and not surprising as I’ve been trying for a little while to upgrade but after luactivate’ing the new BE, it would hang with the kernel banner. … Continue reading

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Snowboarding in Meribel

Just come back from a weeks holiday in Meribel part of the 3 Valleys in France. The week started very well with lots of energy for boarding around with everyone in the group. This however deteriorated during the week as … Continue reading

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