Converting ext2 filesytem to ext3
cloudibee The ext2 or second extended file system is a file system for the Linux kernel. ext2 is not a journaling file system, whereas, ext3 provides journaling and is almost completely…
December 2008
IBM Aix Unix: Swap & Paging commands
List the paging space available in the system: Use lsps command.bash-3.00# You can also see the paging details in “prtconf” command. Adding additional paging space : Use mkps command. Verify…
Linux stress testing
Stress is a simple workload generator for Linux. It imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory, I/O, and disk stress on the system. Capture the cpu load (uptime,mpstat), IO load…
Lightweight Window managers
If you are using Linux as your development environment and completely doing remote development and require some GUI, then you have to use lightweight window managers. Window managers with speed,…
Netapp hammer : Disk & Storage controller stress testing tool
Netapp has an disk & loop stress testing command (in advanced mode) to hammer and load test a filer. This hammer script generates huge I/O operations on the disks –…
Netapp nfsstat
How do you check which nfs client uses most of your filer’s nfs operations? . You have to enable the option “nfs.per_client_stats.enable”. This option would give you per nfs operations…