{Sun Studio, Solaris} { Blog Posts, White Papers} : A Retrospect

1. HOW-TOsSun Solaris Hijacking a function call (interposing) http://technopark02.blogspot.com/2005/05/solaris-hijacking-function-call.html Printing Stack Trace with printstack() on Solarishttp://blogs.sun.com/mandalika/entry/c_c_printing_stack_trace How To Disable Out Of The Box (OOB) Large Page Support?http://blogs.sun.com/mandalika/entry/solaris_disabling_out_of_the Installing apps/packages with pkg-gethttp://technopark02.blogspot.com/2005/06/solaris-installing-appspackages-with.html...

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QuickTest Pro Performance : VNC or Remote Desktop?

For the past few months I have been struggling with the mysteriously poor performing QuickTest Professional (QTP) on Windows. When tested similar transactions using the LoadRunner (LR) tool, the average response times were satisfactory -- mostly under 2 seconds. However when tested with QTP, the averages were unusually high - they are mostly between 2 and 4 seconds. LoadRunner data eliminated the web and application servers from the picture. Because...

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Installing MySQL 5.0.51b from the Source Code on Sun Solaris

Building and installing the MySQL server from the source code is relatively very easy when compared to many other OSS applications. At least that was my experience. The following simplified installation instructions were based on the MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual .Steps for setting up the MySQL 5.x environment on Sun Solaris Create 'mysql' group, then 'mysql' user.eg.,# mkdir /export/software/mysql# groupadd mysql# useradd -g mysql -d /export/software/mysql...

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