#Smartos

Running Plex securely on top of ZFS through the magic of lx branded zones and SmartOS.

The nice folks at Plex recently released a version of Plex Media Server for SmartOS and other illumos variants. Actually, half of that statement is a lie. While the folks over at Plex are …

I am not crazy right?

It has been a while since I posted an entry, so I thought I would type up a short post on some fun with the DTrace pid Provider. I was recently working with stud on SmartOS and I wanted to send the logs off to the syslog facility local4. So I modified …

Debugging splunk performance issues in a live environment.

Since joining Voxer to do performance engineering, I have also become the owner of our splunk instances. We rely on splunk heavily to monitor our infrastructure just as most companies do. It is an important tool …