Solaris: How to get rid of [English/European] bar underneath every window?

[English/European] bar will be shown underneath every window, if en_US.UTF-8 (en_US.UTF-8 is a Unicode locale for American English) has been chosen as the default locale, during the installation of OS.How to get rid of it?Choose C (7-bit US-ASCII English locale) localeTemporary workaround: Select Options -> Langauges -> C at the CDE/GNOME/JDS login menu buttonPermanant fix: Remove the LANG line in the /etc/default/init file and then reboot the system; then C locale will be used as the system's default locale. Or simply replace en_US.UTF-8...

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Solaris: lofiadm - Mounting an ISO image on Solaris file system

On Solaris 8 and later versions, it is not necessary to create CD's for the downloaded ISO images. Instead of burning the image to a CD-ROM to access its contents, it is easy to mount the image directly into the file system with the help of lofiadm and mount commandslofiadm administers lofi, the loopback file driver. lofi allows a file to be associated with a block device. That file can then be accessed through the block device. This is useful when the file contains an image of some file system (such as a floppy or CD-ROM image), ...

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Building ICU 2.2 & Xerces 2.1 on Solaris 10 for x86

set the following environment variables & create the directories as shown below:setenv TZ PST8PDTsetenv ICUROOT <root directory of ICU source>setenv ICU_DATA $ICUROOT/source/data/setenv XERCESCROOT <root directory of xerces source>setenv XALAN_USE_ICU truesetenv XALANCROOT <root directory of xalan source>mkdir -p $ICUROOT/lib/sol/releasemkdir -p $ICUROOT/lib/sol/debugmkdir -p $ICUROOT/bin/sol/releasemkdir -p $ICUROOT/bin/sol/debugmkdir -p $XERCESCROOT/lib/sol/releasemkdir -p $XERCESCROOT/lib/sol/debugmkdir -p $XALANCROOT/lib/sol/releasemkdir...

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Solaris 9 or later: More performance with Large Pages (MPSS)

3 simple steps to improve the performance of any native application on Solaris 9 or later versions:Run the application; and collect trapstat data with maximum load on the system trapstat -T 10 10Check the %time spent on dTLB missesPreload mpss.so.1 interposing library of Solaris and configure the application to use large pages. This can be done by writing a simple wrapper wround the invokation of application You can check the supported page sizes on your machine by typing "pagesize -a". Common page sizes on SPARC systems: 8K (default), 64K, 512K,...

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Siebel on Sun Solaris: Know the process resource limits

Symptom:On Solaris OS, none of the Object Managers start up with total MaxTasks > 9200 thereby limiting the maximum number of users to 9000 (assuming one task per user and some overhead tasks for other server components) per single instance of Siebel serverResolution:On Solaris, for any user process, the maximum data segment or heap will have a soft/hard limit of 2G, by default. Similarly, stack will have a soft limit of 8M and a hard limit of 2G i.e., 2G address space will be reserved for the stack itself.Those limits on system resources inhibit...

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