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Of JVM crashes and JDK 1.6 and Tomcat 6 and CentOS 5.4

28-Apr-10

Well that’s was fun! Upgrading a busy service environment you would expect the OS and the JVM to talk to each other no problem after all these years. How wrong was I? The improvements and options available in JDK 1.6 compared to 1.5 make the move and suffering worth it. The switches alone that allow [...]

Adding new VM hard drive without rebooting on linux

10-Mar-10

A Great little article on how to add a hard drive on a linux based Guest OS, without actually booting it. I knew this was possible but it saved me the hassle of experiementing on my own process! Article is here: www.cyberciti.biz/tips/vmware-add-a-new-hard-disk-without-rebooting-guest.html The bits after the rescan , I used system-config-lvm (i.e Fedora/RH based OSes) [...]

PVSCSI or LSI Logic: that is the question

26-Feb-10

I have been umming and ahhing about this for a good while ,I can see the VMware Knowledge Base article here is useful. Basically we need to look at this tid bit: The behavior of two key storage counters affects the way the PVSCSI and LSI Logic adapters handle interrupt coalescing: * Outstanding I/Os (OIOs): [...]