Debuggers

A friend asked me how he could see the network utilization in Solaris. It seems like a fairly simple request but for some reason this is not a simple command line away.

November 19, 2008

Recently, I was asked to give some advice on an integration project involving some Solaris web servers . One of the sides requested to install the top command. Now I know and love top for Linux but using top on Solaris is a waste in my opinion. Solaris comes with the prstat command built in- why use something else? Of course he answered that top was standard for him and he was used to it but I felt obliged to convince him otherwise so I dug around and found some proof 🙂

November 16, 2008

This post isn't going to solve anyone's problems but maybe someone will solve mine. I recently compiled and packaged a new release of php4 (4.4.7) for use with Sun's Apache2 (Solaris 10 11/06 patched). Unfortunately for some very strange reason, Apache segfaults whenever it tries to server a page. It segfaults even if the page has no php involved and only if the php module is loaded.

May 13, 2007