I experienced a weird problem whereby no images were loading in Safari (yet Flash was working) but everything was fine in Firefox. I tried cleaning out caches, and reset virtually everything. The real problem turned out that I had accidentally checked the item “Disable Images” under the “Develop” menu.
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A filer in your pocket. Installing a NetApp simulator.
Download a simulator. You will need a NOW (NetApp On the Web) account to download.
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/simulator
I am using a Linux virtual machine inside Virtual Box, so I connect to that Linux machine and copy over the tarfile, that I downloaded to my mac. ...
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Collecting NFS trace data for performance tasks.
When collecting network traces to solve performance problems, we need to balance the need to capture enough data to re-construct the upper protocols with the need to limit the amount of trace data collected overall. When capturing NFS traffic, the packet size can...
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Presentation to RTP OpenSolaris group on Filebench.
On Janurary 5th 2010 I gave a short presentation on the FileBench workload modeling tool to the RTP OpenSolaris group. Click on the slide to advance. The...
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How to change a disk “type” in Solaris.
Sometimes you might want to change the “type” of a disk within Solaris. The “type” of the disk is stored on the disk itself, along with the partition...
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Performance related videos from Velocity 09
A set of recorded presentations from the Velocity 09 conference, many of which are related to performance. Particularly “Internet Scale” problems.
Here’s the link: Velocity 2009
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