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The servicelog package has been updated to version 1.0.  This new version uses an sqlite database as a backend (instead of the Berkeley DB backend that the 0.x stream used).  The primary advantage to the sqlite relational database backend is that queries of the servicelog can be performed with standard SQL queries.  The –query flag [...]

The package for performing Power platform diagnostics, ppc64-diag, has just been open sourced under the Eclipse Public License.  Much of what I discussed in my previous post about predictive self healing is implemented in this package (and in servicelog, which is already open source). Here are some of the advantages provided by the ppc64-diag package: retrieval of [...]

Just a short post today to mention a new feature in SystemTap that I should have mentioned a while ago.  A primary barrier to the adoption of SystemTap has been the requirement that SystemTap have access to the DWARF debug information for the kernel and modules.  This is no longer the case; as of [...]

There have been a few articles recently discussing ksplice, a mechanism for hotpatching a Linux kernel.  It is primarily geared towards applying security patches, which is a good thing:  it is expressly designed to address those patches that are most urgent to apply, and thus the most painful due to the sometimes short lead time. The [...]