play with vncserver… when it showed nothing

I often use "ssvnc" to connect my servers to install or do something about X. Anyway, I must to start VNC before by using "vncserver".
[surachart@oralearning ~]$ vncserver

New 'oralearning:1 (surachart)' desktop is oralearning:1

Starting applications specified in /home/surachart/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/surachart/.vnc/oralearning:1.log

[surachart@oralearning ~]$
I ended (more...)

Linux large pages and non-uniform memory distribution

In my last post about large pages in 11.2.0.3 I promised a little more background information on how large pages and NUMA are related.

Background and some history about processor architecture

For quite some time now the CPUs you get from AMD and Intel both are NUMA, (more...)

Allow Pingdom IP’s in CSF on cPanel / WHM

Need to quickly add the Pingdom IP’s to your CSF.allow file?

wget --quiet -O- https://my.pingdom.com/probes/feed | \
grep "pingdom:ip" | \
sed -e 's|||' >> /etc/csf/csf.allow
sleep 5
csf -r

What it does:

  • Fetches the latest probing server IP’s from Pingdom
  • Greps the output of (more...)

More on use_large_pages in Linux and 11.2.0.3

Large Pages in Linux are a really interesting topic for me as I really like Linux and trying to understand how it works. Large pages can be very beneficial for systems with large SGAs and even more so for those with large SGA and lots of user sessions connected.

I (more...)

On Demand Webcast Replay: How To Manage Your Data Center With Oracle Virtual Networking

Learn how to improve infrastructure performance, significantly reduce costs and complexity, and simplify storage and server connectivity with Oracle Virtual Networking products. View a demonstration of the Oracle Fabric Manager and find out how the Oracle Fabric Interconnect, the core of the data center fabric solution, simplifies data center management (more...)

UltraEdit 4.0 for Mac/Linux…

UltraEdit 4.0 has been released for Mac and Linux. The downloads are in the usual place. You can see the latest changelogs here (Mac, Linux).

Fun, fun, fun…

Cheers

Tim…


UltraEdit 4.0 for Mac/Linux… was first posted on May 9, 2013 at 2:25 pm.
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Ext4 filesystem workshop report by Mingming Cao

This is a contributed post from Mingming Cao, lead ext4 developer for the Oracle mainline Linux kernel team.

I attended the second ext4 workshop hosted at the third day of Linux Collaboration Summit 2013.  Participants included Google, RedHat, SuSE, Taobao, and Lustre. We had about 2-4 hours of good (more...)

Live, Learn and Share

Live, Learn and Share is the signature from a friend that I used to work with – Chau Vu

Today, I learned something new because I was shared something by a colleague – Jing Han

If you know part of filename for what you are looking for but don’t know (more...)

Auto Install Teamspeak 3 on CentOS 6.4

Ever wanted your own Teamspeak 3 Server? I’ve built a script that will install a secure copy of Teamspeak 3 (64 bit) on CentOS 6.4.

Simply run the following set of commands on your CentOS 6.4 server to install a secure Teamspeak 3 voice server:

iptables -F
iptables  (more...)

When does an Oracle process know it’s on Exadata?

When an Oracle process starts executing a query and needs to do a full segment scan, it needs to make a decision if it’s going to use ‘blockmode’, which is the normal way of working on non-Exadata Oracle databases, where blocks are read from disk and processed by the Oracle (more...)

Watching the “CopyBack” progress of a new disk on an Exadata compute node

This is just a very small post on how to watch the progress of the “CopyBack” state of a freshly inserted disk in an Exadata “Computing” (database) node. A disk failed in the (LSI Hardware) RAID5 set, and the hotspare disk was automatically used. The failed disk was replaced, and (more...)

Fedora 18 “Spherical Cow” Not Working in VMware Fusion

Today, I downloaded Fedora 18 “Spherical Cow” and noticed that it would not boot when using VMware Fusion on Mac OSX.

It seems this issue resolves itself when disabling ’3D Acceleration’ in your VMware Guest Settings.

Disabling 3d Acceleration in VMware Fusion for Mac OSX

  1. Open VMware Fusion and make (more...)

Dual-Boot on UEFI PCs: Booting Ubuntu only works randomly

In my posting about using ubuntu on a Windows 9 laptop, i ended with:
But now rebooting works like expected (with Ubuntu and Windows 8).
After some more reboots and trying to start ubuntu, booting ubuntu only works randomly. Sometimes it worked after walking through BIOS/UEFI. Sometime it did (more...)

Grid Infrastructure And Database High Availability Deep Dive Seminars 2013

So this is a little bit of a plug for myself and Enkitec but I’m running my Grid Infrastructure And Database High Availability Deep Dive Seminars again for Oracle University. This time these events are online, so no need to come to a classroom at all.

Here is the short description (more...)

Linux and UEFI: Files, Mountpoints, Commands…

With Windows 8 secure boot is used. That means if you want to add a Linux kernel, this kernel has to be signed. After installing Ubuntu on a Windows 8 machine, here the directory listing of the /boot directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   844882 Okt  9  2012 abi-3.5.0-17-generic
(more...)

Using Ubuntu on a Windows 8 Laptop: because of UEFI more problems as expected

Today i tried to install Ubuntu on a Windows 8 Laptop. First thing: you have to use 12.04 or greater because Windows 8 uses secure boot with UEFI.

But after the first boot with a USB-stick i got:

(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system
?? (more...)

Yum Search, Install and Remove packages (CentOS)

Yum is a powerful repository management tool available in all Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora distributions. It allows you to install common packages immediately, removing the need to manually compile from source.

Search Packages in Yum

Searching available packages in Yum is easy, simply issue the following to search (more...)

Install Xen with Libvirt / XL on CentOS 6.4 DomU

Following the announcement that Red Hat will be discontinuing official support of Xen in EL6 in favour of KVM, I thought it’d be a good time to release a detailed how-to on installing the Xen Hypervisor on CentOS 6.x.

This article will guide you through the successful installation (more...)

How to Read Memory in Linux (buffers / cache)

To see your currently available memory, execute the following command in your terminal:

free -m

When reading the output of this command, always read the buffers / cache +- section for a true indication of available memory.

This is because Linux employs disk caching, for example, when an application is (more...)

DNS for RAC on VirtualBox

Just completed RAC training and wanted to put into practice.

SCAN IPs MUST NOT be in the /etc/hosts file because it will result in only 1 SCAN IP for the entire cluster.

I started looking for simple DNS server to be used with RAC and came across dnsmasq.

LINUX VERSION

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