After working many years with IBM WebSphere Application Server on Solaris, Linux on PSeries, XSeries and ZSeries and Z/OS. I came to realize the IBM version of Java has much better debug tools and documentation available to perform debugging and performance tuning. Examples of these features are the IBM AOT Ahead of Time Compiler which…
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After successfully running a Large Hadoop Cluster for a period of time. I started to notice strange things occurring initially with the MapReduce PI example task where tasks would be marked as failed. When looking more closely and attempting to logon/su/ssh to a machine with the userid that was running the job the sshd/su would return: -bash:…
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I’m pretty sure many folks have seen this specific error across multiple different linux systems specifically when iptables is enabled and the OS has thousands of connections coming in second. In my case I ran into this Examples of this are with Hadoop NameNode. Someone accidentally executed iptables -L to try to get a list…
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Hadoop and Redhat System Tuning /etc/sysctl.conf One of the most overlooked things after building out a Hadoop cluster is the operating system tuning. This post will cover how to tune settings in /etc/sysctl.conf also known as Linux Kernel Settings. /etc/sysctl.conf ## ALWAYS INCREASE KERNEL SEMAPHORES especially IF using IBM JDK with SharedClassCache also a separate…
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GS Tech Blog What is the GS Tech Blog! It’s a place for me to rant and provide my thoughts about technology I’ve worked with over many years. So after working as a Technology Systems Engineer for almost 20 years, I decided it’s time to create a blog to publish some of my ideas and…
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