Here are few tips if you are going to install the MySQL Coolstack package on Sun Solaris.

First of all, let me say that, as usual, these tips are based on my personal experience and they may not be applicable to your sw version or environment. For this specific tip, I can't say if it is applicable for all versions of Solaris - 9, 10, OpenSolaris, X86, SPARC etc.

You can get the Coolstack from here - http://cooltools.sunsource.net/coolstack. Within Coolstack you will find CSKmysql, a specific 64 bit package prepared by Sun that provides some interesting performance improvements. Coolstack has been built with Sun Studio from the same source used to build the standard versions. Also, CSKmysql provides Dtrace probes - I am sure some will find this feature a great plus. The last available version, 1.3.1, is based on MySQL 5.1.25RC.

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There’s remarkably little information online about using MySQL on ZFS, successfully or not, so I did what any enterprising geek would do: Built a box, threw some data on it, and tossed it into production to see if it would sink or swim.

I’m a Linux geek, have been since 1993 (Slackware!). All of SmugMug’s datacenters (and our EC2 images) are built on Linux. But the current state of filesystems on Linux is awful, and …

While Colin beat me in blogging about Project Kenai, I think I can still provide some additional background information about this new project hosting service from Sun.

If you are a maintainer of an Open Source project, you currently have plenty of choice when it comes to getting your project hosted for free. One criterion could be your software configuration management system (SCM) of choice.

Some of the hosting services that I am currently aware of and the choice of SCM they offer include:

• BitBucket ( …

I'm back home from DrupalCon 2008 now - it has been a great event! I met a lot of nice people from the Drupal Community and learned a lot about this CMS. I've been very busy in uploading the remaining pictures from the event to my gallery - so here's for your viewing pleasure:

• Impressions from Szeged
• Day One - 2008-08-27
• Day Two - 2008-08-28
• …

Some links on DTrace + MySQL: http://delicious.com/amitkumarsaha/dtrace%2Bmysql

Some links on DTrace + MySQL: http://delicious.com/amitkumarsaha/dtrace%2Bmysql

Hot on the heels of news that SquareSpace is using Oracle, comes news that LinkedIn is going whole hog with MySQL.

Actually, you could say that LinkedIn is buying into Sun. They are buying the MySQL Enterprise subscription and they'll be running MySQL on Sparc servers and Solaris 10. They've signed up for Sun Professional Services, MySQL Professional Services, and …

..aka how to spend a magnificent Sunday-Monday in SUN’s company :)

If your applications run on Windows™ and you need a MySQL™ Cluster for testing purposes you can use Virtual Box to install SUN Solaris™  10 and set up the Database Cluster creating 4 Solaris™ Zones (4 IP are required for a minimal Cluster setup).

It’s an interesting scenario.

You will need:

• Virtual Box
• Solaris™ 10
• the binary distribution of MySQL™ Cluster for Solaris™

You can create the Solaris™ Zones manually or you can create them …

So… some colleagues have been experimenting with DTrace a bit, and I’ve been (for a while now) wanting to experiment with it.

The challenge now, instead of in the past, is that I’m setting up a Solaris based system - not getting one premade.

I chose OpenSolaris as I’d previously tried Solaris 10 and just sunk too much time trying to get updates and a development environment installed (another colleague could get the opposite to me going: he got devtools but no updates. at least mine was up to date and secure… but without a compiler).

So… OpenSolaris. It isn’t 100% open, there’s binary only drivers and such… but compared to previous Solaris, a whole lot better. Now, if only it was GPL licensed so we could have cross-pollination with Linux.

I grabbed the 2008.05 ISO as soon (in fact, slightly before) it was released and installed it in VirtualBox.

The installation was shiny …