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I’ve been testing some new kernel tunings for Oracle databases the last few days, and experienced the odd error “error: unknown error 22 setting key ‘kernel.shmall’” when trying to sort out shared memory. Even more bizarre was the fact the setting was actually being set just fine.

After Googling a bit I couldn’t fathom out what this error meant or what was really wrong. So I did a quick strace on a ’sysctl -p’. Bingo.

I had a comment at the end of the line in sysctl.conf! It was that simple. Move the comment to the line above, et voila, no whining!

I tend to build perl modules to live in my home directory. Setting up CPAN with PREFIX= and LIB= variables means I can compile/build modules without being root and use them in any script with a simple ‘use lib …’ statement. (continue reading…)

I decided to take a look at Catalyst on Solaris. Having done a bit of work with it on Mac OSX, I discovered it wasn’t that easy to get going on Solaris with the stock Perl. Even using cat-install from ShadowCat didn’t render the easy result I’d experienced using MacPorts. After a few hours battling with CPAN, I’ve managed to come up with this list of modules to get Catalyst up and running. (continue reading…)

This example is using snv66 for the target, and Solaris 10u3 for the initiator, as iSCSI target isn’t in Solaris 10u3 (11/06), but is in from u4 (08/07). This should work fine on Solaris 10 u4 and beyond. (continue reading…)