I never realized that there is a really easy way to “monitor” your Solaris in a way to use build-in SMF and FMA monitors and send a mail in case of diagnoses. # svccfg setnotify problem-diagnosed mailto:pressy@solaris.wtf # svcadm enable http:apache24 # mv…

Last time installing an Oracle DB on Solaris 11.4 SPARC I realized missing extra large memory page sizes. I want to see 16GB huge pages on SPARC but only got 2GB pages as largest allocated memory by Oracle. Well, still bigger than on x86, where you will get…

And again, after Meltdown, Spectre, and Foreshadow, current SPARC CPUs are also not effected by ZombieLoad… @ZombieLoad While programs usually only see their own data, a malicious program can exploit the stuffing buffers to gain secrets that are currently…