Don’t Panic if you run terabytes of RAM and need to understand a dumped snapshot
Oracle’s Solaris operating system remains widely used, even though Big Red more or less froze development of the product in 2018 save for regular Support Repository Updates (SRUs) that add minor updates and bug fixes.
But on Wednesday the company announced a reasonably significant addition to the OS, called the ACT Service.
As explained by Big Red staffers Chris Beal, Hisao Tsujimura and Lijo George, Solaris boxes can wield up to eight terabytes of memory when powered by SPARC processors – or touch three terabytes when running on x86 silicon.
If a Solaris box experiences a system panic, the OS takes a snapshot of memory, compresses it, and sends it to Oracle.
