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PermGen space error in jBoss

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

  “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space” First the application was acting really slow and sluggish, then stopped responding – in looking at the log we saw “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space” as soon as the application was accessed. The resolution was to set “-XX:MaxPermSize=128m” in the startup script. to the string sizing the jBoss server is now: “-server -Xms256m [...]

how to monitor ibm mq from nagios

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

  This was one of the search terms that found an article here… I hadn’t addressed this directly, but I use Nagios to monitor my company’s server environment, and specifically implemented that monitoring for IBM Websphere MQ. For MQ, I run nagios monitoring against queue depth and processes. I installed three plugins to run against [...]

two sticks – visual economics

Monday, October 20th, 2008

  The world goes crazy because the money stops flowing. Why? George Dyson wrote an essay on current finances in the world. In that essay, he recounts the history of “tallies”, sticks of wood carefully notched to indicate funds and dates. Money deposited in the Exchequer for the use of the king was tallied, accounted [...]

ports and processes in Solaris

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

  In Linux, “netstat -apn” will list processes versus ports bound to: dsm@dali:~$ netstat -apn (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.) Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp [...]

heinlein’s solution to handling mail

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

  Robert Heinlein answered fan mail with a form letter (article by Kevin Kelly; he found an actual copy of the form letter in his own files), sometimes an index card, up until around the early 1980′s. Virginia Heinlein made a comment about the form letter she and Robert used to reply to fan mail [...]

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