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 the less the customer found that they noticed…

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. It’s been doing ever since my…

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 boarding for 6 odd hours a day does eventually take…

Basingstoke Karate Website

For the time being I’ve updated the SSKA Basingstoke Karate website so it as least as some details of where we all train. I shall be updating once I’ve worked out what the club wants to put up on it. 🙂 I’ve also started training at the SSKA…

Don't forget truss for diagnosing issues

Oracle came to us via the VOSJEC channel for help in diagnosing a customer getting the following error in the alert log during various DML queries: ORA-27505: IPC error destroying a port ORA-27300: OS system dependent operation:close failed with status: 9 ORA-27301: OS failure message: Bad file number ORA-27302:…