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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. that a lot of people used.

Tuning

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++

Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C

Virtualization

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware

What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

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