Whenever I do testing of patches and puts the results on trac, I usually put quite detailed information about the hardware/software used.
Typically I write * Make and model of computer * CPU(s) * RAM * Exact version of the operating system. * Compiler (usually gcc), with version number. In the case of the testing I do on Linux or OS X I normally just write something like * Linux sage.math * OS X bsd.math since I don't know what these machines or precisely what operating systems they are running. Since they are likely to get updated at some point, it would seem sensible that the information is added on trac tickets. I'm somewhat surprised 'uname -a' does not even indicate on sage.math whether its Ubunta, Debian or whatever (I think it's the former, but do not know). For any that are interested, I can tell you the urrent hardware configuration of t2.math is * Sun T5240 server * 32GB RAM * 2 x 1167 MHz UltraSPARC T2+ processors (8 cores per processor, 64 hardware threads per processor) * 2 x 147 GB disks, mirrored using a ZFS file system. * Solaris 10 update 7 (05/2009 release) Of course, that could change over time. If you want to know your way around a Solaris system a bit more, here are some semi-useful commands * /usr/sbin/prtconf | grep Memory (gives you memory information) * /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/prtdiag (More hardware information) * showrev (more information) * /usr/sbin/psrinfo -v (gives you processor information) * prstat (like top, but more accurate on Solaris) * cat /etc/release (gives operating system information) * uname -a (gives you the usual things) * uptime (how long the system has been up, and load average) * dmesg (system messages. The "NFS stale" messages are a result of the the ZIL log being turned off on 'disk.math') * df -h (gives you some information about disk usage) * The way to find out if its running out of memory is to use the 'sr' column of 'vmstat'. (Don't even think about believing top) Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
