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Sysbench is a very good tool to test your database performance .

I got the following error today while setting up sysbench version 0.4.12

Error : –

/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -pthread -g -O2      -o sysbench sysbench.o sb_timer.o sb_options.o sb_logger.o db_driver.o tests/fileio/libsbfileio.a tests/threads/libsbthreads.a tests/memory/libsbmemory.a tests/cpu/libsbcpu.a tests/oltp/libsboltp.a tests/mutex/libsbmutex.a drivers/mysql/libsbmysql.a -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/ -lmysqlclient_r   -lrt -lm
../libtool: line 838: X--tag=CC: command not found
../libtool: line 871: libtool: ignoring unknown tag : command not found
../libtool: line 838: X--mode=link: command not found
../libtool: line 1004: *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated.: command not found
../libtool: line 1005: *** Future versions of Libtool will require --mode=MODE be specified.: command not found
../libtool: line 2231: X-g: command not found
../libtool: line 2231: X-O2: command not found
../libtool: line 1951: X-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/: No such file or directory
../libtool: line 2400: Xsysbench: command not found
../libtool: line 2405: X: command not found
../libtool: line 2412: Xsysbench: command not found
../libtool: line 2420: mkdir /.libs: No such file or directory
../libtool: line 2547: X-lmysqlclient_r: command not found
../libtool: line 2547: X-lrt: command not found
../libtool: line 2547: X-lm: command not found
../libtool: line 2629: X-L/root/sysbench-0.4.12/sysbench: No such file or directory
../libtool: line 2547: X-lmysqlclient_r: command not found
../libtool: line 2547: X-lrt: command not found

Confused ?

After getting the above error , I tried to run ” autogen.sh ” and its leads to the fix

sysbench/drivers/mysql/Makefile.am:17: library used but `RANLIB' is undefined
sysbench/drivers/mysql/Makefile.am:17:   The usual way to define `RANLIB' is to add `AC_PROG_RANLIB'
sysbench/drivers/mysql/Makefile.am:17:   to `configure.ac' and run `autoconf' again.
sysbench/drivers/oracle/Makefile.am:17: library used but `RANLIB' is undefined
sysbench/drivers/oracle/Makefile.am:17:   The usual way to define `RANLIB' is to add `AC_PROG_RANLIB'
sysbench/drivers/oracle/Makefile.am:17:   to `configure.ac' and run `autoconf' again.
sysbench/drivers/pgsql/Makefile.am:17: library used but `RANLIB' is undefined

How to fix ?  : –

1) Edit configure.ac  file and hash the  75th line and add a new entry as follows

vi sysbench-0.4.12/configure.ac

#AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
AC_PROG_RANLIB

2)  ./autogen.sh

3)  ./configure

4)  make & make install

That’s it !!!  😉

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VmWare ESXi 5.1 driver issue with Dell servers .

Today i had to setup VmWare ESXi on a new server ( Dell PowerEdge R320 ) .
Firstly, I downloaded latest exsi 5.1 and tried to install. But it was throwing network driver errors.

After some googling, I found a “Repaired vmware exsi 5.1 iso ” from Dell support .

If you are facing the same issue then please download the dell .iso from the following location

 Download from here :

Dell_Customized_RecoveryCD_A00.iso

Sometimes you may face issues to download from this location , then you may try ” wget” in linux .

wget http://downloads-us.dell.com/FOLDER00876460M/1/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.1.0-799733.x86_64-Dell_Customized_RecoveryCD_A00.iso

Thats it !!  Enjoy new 5.1 ESXi !!!! 

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Some times we need to monitor our network traffic closely to find out the misbehavior of the server.
I found a combination of two excellent tools ( tcpdump and wireshark )  to meet my requirements.

Tcpdump (http://www.tcpdump.org ) : –

tcpdump is a well known packet capturing tool used in unix machines.  Also its freely available with most of the distributions.

How to  use the tcpdump commands

tcpdump -i <interface> -s <packet snapshot length >  -w <some-file>

1) Capture packets and give the standard output to shell.

tcpdump  -i eth0 -s 65535

c – count ( number of packets )
i – specify the interface
s – packet snapshot length (def: 65535)
2) Capture packets and write the result in to a file ( file.cap ) using ” -w ” option

tcpdump -c 2 -i eth0  -w file.cap

3) Read the captuared file , file.cap

tcpdump -tttt -r file.cap

4) Capture the packets coming through a specific port

tcpdump -i eth0  -c 100 port 22

5) Capture the packets from a specific destination IP

tcpdump -i eth0 port 80 and dst 119.168.20.112

WireShark (www.wireshark.org):

Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.

How to diagnosis the captuared packets using  WireShark

1) Download and  install this software to your local machine windows or linux .
2) copy / download the captuared file ” file.cap ” to your local machine.
3) Open the file in wireshark

Just like the above pictures , its a GUI . You can diagnosis the packets very easily.

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Another proud moment for linux lovers , kernel 3 released !!!

Linux successfullly completed 2 decades and entering to the 3rd decade with 3rd generation kernel.

Refer the official details from : Linus Torvalds  and  Kernel Org

You can view the 20 years story here : The Story

Good bye 2.6  !!!!!!