Articles tagged with solaris

1. Killing Old popper Processes in Solaris 8

   Posted on September 19, 2011 in System Administration

   I've dealt with a few servers that have long lived popper (POP3) processes. These processes should be closed once the connection is closed, but they occasionally hang around. Once they get in this state, they will never close on their own. After a while, hundreds of these processes will just …

2. Solaris TCP Performance Tuning

   Posted on May 06, 2007 in system_administration

   As we have throughout the TCP Performance Tuning series, we're going to make sure RFC 1323 Window Scaling is enabled and increase our send and receive window size to 1 MB. The ndd command is the Solaris equivalent of sysctl in FreeBSD/Linux/Mac OS X.

   sudo ndd -set /dev …