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ZombieLoad on SPARC

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…

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Solaris I/O Latency

Starting with Solaris 11.4 you got a new interface for device latency without using dtrace. The information was always there but now you can use a “human readable” command. That might bring easier understanding and analyzing the disk subsystem. I ran an IO…

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ZFS performance

Just read a nice blog about ZFS performance I would like to recommend: Six Metrics for Measuring ZFS Pool Performance Good explanations and maybe great input on your next layout… It’s from a BSD engineer, but the basics are true for all ZFS implementations……

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