My August 2008 column has been published in ;login:. This month it’s about Solaris System Analysis – a checklist approach to solving a system being “slow” or “busted”. Some ;login: contents is freely available at ;login: August 2008, but my column this month is not one of them. I’ve posted the .pdf here for those without a USENIX membership (although I strongly recommend you get one if you are interested in all things Unix).
I hope this column will turn into a living wiki about (Solaris) system analysis. I’ve prepopulated a wiki with the contents of the column, so now it’s up to you to add your thoughts to the procedure. It would be a great advance in systems administration if there was a canonocal source of first-step debugging information, and hopefully you will help make this wiki that source: http://wiki.sage.org/bin/view/Main/AllThingsSun
Good Evening Mr. Galvin,
As I read through your blog’s, I came to a thought/conclusion that you are a very highly intellegant person within the IT world. As we all know, every year that passes, IT is strong and much more modern. I would like to ask, What would happen to Solaris 10 years from now?
This might be a wierd question but I just had that thought while reading through your posting.