Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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Patch Check Advanced

I tried out the wizzy new Solaris patch GUI (updatemanager) a while back to see whether it was actually usable, and I had issues with it. First of all it was really, really, slow when it had to analyze the currently installed patches. Like it was so slow, you couldn’t tell whether it was hung [...]