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Troubleshooting ZFS Swap and Dump devices

If you need to adjust the size of the swap volume after installation on an active system, review the following steps. See CR 6765386 for more info

Using the Solaris getent command

The advantage of getent is that the command searches the information sources in the order in which they are configured in the name service switch file.

Troubleshooting Solaris memory usage

With Solaris 9 and later, comes an extremly nice mdb command for checking how much memory is used in kernel, and how much is used in user space.

Changing Oracle Enterprise Linux hostname

Either due to cloning or corporate naming standards, you may find the need to change the hostname of an Oracle Enterprise Linux System.

Solaris NFS

NFS is a protocol which allows file systems on one system to be made available on a remote system. NFS works on a server-client model.