Chirstmas and New Year

It’s the day before Christmas en next week it’s New Year.

So I’, Taking a week off. Especially the last 6 month have been very hectic for me. The next week I’m

doing some stuff around the house and spending some time with my girlfriend would be welcome.
So for the next to weeks, I won’t be blogging as must as normally. But OpenSUse 11.1 is on my list.

That leaves me of wishing you all a very good Christamas and a Happy New Year!

NSS and VMFS performance OES2 SP1

Earlier I blogged about the performance of NSS on VMFS.
You can read the result from that test over here.

Now I tested it also with SP1 for OES2 to see if the performance is better.

As you can see the performance is a bit better, but not nearly the performance when you use a RDM. So the conslusion is still the same. If you want to use NSS in Vmware ESX. Use a RDM for your NSS partition.

OpenSuse 11.1 released

As you have probably read on many websites. OpenSuse 11.1 is released. You can download it over here.
You probably know that OpenSuse 11.1 is the fundamental of the next to come SLES 11.
I have the beta of SLES 11. So if you want to test with this beta. Give me a sign!

I’m upgrading my workstation at home this Christmas.

Brainshare 2009 cancelled

I just got the message that Brainshare 2009 in Salt Lake City is canceled. The reason Novell gives is the economic environment and that many customers don’t wanne come because of that environment. Novell want to compensate through online session or local sessions.

I don’t think this is a good singal to customers or partners through the world. Brainshare isn’t only follwing session. It’s also about meeting other same minded people. This can be at Brainshare self or late in the evening in the pub.

Why not do a small Brainshare? Without all the extra stuff like Star Buck or a lounge room. Just the sessions. Sure everybody pay’s enough to make that cost-covering!

Script to monitor amount of NCP connections

A customer of mine has multiple eDirectory servers. We noticed that the load of the servers various. The problem is that we did not know howmany connections are made to the particular server. So I wrote a simple scipt. If you put this script in /usr/local/bin and put it in your Cron for example of every 5 min you will get a pretty good overview.

#!/bin/bash
# Date: 18-12-2008
# Author: Michael Wilmsen
# Purpose: To display the amount of TCP connections and NCP connections
# Output: Date,Hostname,TotalConnections
echo “$(date ‘+%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S’),$HOSTNAME,$(netstat -na | wc -l),$(netstat -an | grep “:524″ | wc -l),$(cat /proc/loadavg)”

The output is like this:

12/18/08 12:40:04,edirall201,3522,3253,4.50 3.49 3.80 5/412 24008

date time,hostname,#TCPConnections,#NCPConnections,load average