Release Notes, SDR 0.71 Jan 2010

The release notes for SDR, recording and reporting packages. The reporting package is offered only to registered customers of SDR and it is customed installed for them.

Recording

• sysrec: CR 11 sysrec records negative memory usage
• sysrec: CR 08 sysrec should take into consideration ZFS ARC consumer
• hdwrec: CR 24 missing CPU information: MHz, GHz
• hdwrec: CR 12 incorrect parse of number of physical disks installed
• jvmrec: support for Solaris local zones
• corerec: support for SPARC VI, VII cpus
• SMF: corrections for jvmrec, corerec recorders

Reporting

• generic: CR 31 Internet Explorer 5,6,7 support. Use IE 7 for handling transparent png images correctly !
• generic: CR 32 SDR Perl, memory leak in Perl 5.10 Solaris 10
• wlanalyzer: new workload analyzer utility, based on Perl
  • you can easily fetch from access logs what is the throughput per sec, minute, hour for your application. Easy to map only certain periods of time
  • you can data mine the log for various patterns and count URI matches, including trimming or not the URI for all variables found.
    Useful to have a count match of the most accessed resources of the application
  • you can map throughput and CPU utilisation from SDR. Big news for performance analysis and capacity planning
  • you can finally compute the Service time for certain workloads, for a certain period of time
• binaries:
  • perl 5.10.1: updated
  • rrd 1.4.2: updated
  • R 2.9.2: new installation
  • PDQ 5.0.3: new installation

Known Defects

• Recording, jvmrec: supports only Hotspot VM. J9 from IBM might work but has not been tested
• Reporting, network data: not fully implemented

Total CRs: 19

Last updated: 2010-01-02

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