Mithun's Memoirs

Wednesday Nov 19, 2008

Solaris kernel statistics with libkstat

The Solaris operating system kernel provides a set of functions and data structures for device drivers and other kernel modules to export module-specific statistics to the outside world. This infrastructure,is referred to as kstat, provided by they library - libkstat. The Solaris libkstat library contains the C-language functions for accessing kstats from an application. The following blog post demonstrates how the memory statistics could be gathered and consumed in a real-world situation. Detailed explanations are not available, but a the source code provided herewith and the references provided should suffice.

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Posted at 11:42AM Nov 19, 2008 by mithun in Code Camp  |  Comments[0]

Tuesday Oct 28, 2008

Citrix client under OpenSolaris

Citrix client for Solaris 10 x86 and x64 platforms does not seem to work like a breeze on OpenSolaris distributions, due to some major changes in between the releases. However, if one has a working version of Solaris 10, one could basically copy certain binaries and start using the Citrix client right away. The following short post demonstrates this.

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Posted at 03:45PM Oct 28, 2008 by mithun in Code Camp  |  Comments[2]