G'Day Folks,
I have a keen interest in documentation, which has recently had me busy
working on a few other projects (including writing a series of magazine
articles). Hopefully this means my skills are getting better. :)
Anyway, I'm thinking of what would be nice to write for the
documentation community.
The first thing that sprung to mind is most definately not a nice idea. In
fact, it's more of a hot potato. I'll suggest it anyway - feel free to
groan in despair or ignore this posting.
Suggestion: OpenSolaris Book of Records
About a year ago a few of us were discussing on #opensolaris impressive
achievements, such as who had the longest uptime (for a Sun server)[1].
It's something many of us find curious, and also reflects Sun in a
positive way. It's not terribly useful to know - unless you are stuck in
a bar somewhere playing Unix bar trivia...
To get the ball rolling, I created a draft website for Sun records,
http://www.brendangregg.com/sunrecords.html
I think it would be interesting to have such a website on the docs
community for OpenSolaris records (it doesn't belong on my website).
I'm willing to create and maintain it if people think it's a good idea
(or don't think it's a bad idea).
Additionally, I'd like to also have a website for Sun/Solaris records.
Most of the really impressive ones (like 6 years uptime) are currently for
Solaris servers, not OpenSolaris servers.
what do people think?
cheers,
Brendan
[Sydney, Australia]
[1] I realise a long uptime means no kernel patches, and while it can be
an impressive value it's definately not something we would recommend
chasing for production servers.
