Additionally, SGI TM has released tools to enable Linux developers to greatly simplify the process for resolving bugs in enterprise Linux installations. Offering this level of technology enhancements makes Linux more attractive to developers and end users and leads to a stronger, more capable operating system. These optimizations make it possible for large numbers of disks to be kept active. Direct Access to Disks. Databases frequently lay their data out directly on disks to avoid the overhead of filesystems.
New tools enable later analysis of the cause, thus minimizing system downtime.
While this is a normal customer expectation for commercial UNIX systems, this is new for Linux. Built-in Kernel Debugger. The KDB tool greatly eases and thus accelerates Linux kernel development. Kernel GNU Debugger. The KGDB extension to the kernel allows source-level debugging of one Linux system from another over a serial line or Ethernet using the standard debugger.