Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Laptop locking up, possibly on rge device - rings a bell to anyone?

2012-09-27 Thread Jim Klimov
Thanks Marion for the pointers, I also figured it looks like a interrupt problem (back in MSDOS times "kicking" the computer hung in a game by moving a mouse could unhang it ;) ) However, now that I've checked, I don't see rge sharing an IRQ vector with anything. It is of an MSI type currently bo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 1rst mirror in Europe: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

2012-09-27 Thread Jeppe Toustrup
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Martin Bochnig wrote: > ## > 4th: OI leaders contradict themselves when it comes to SPARC > ## > On their beautiful website it reads, openness, openness and > involvemen

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Jason Matthews
Reginald Beardsley Wrote: > This is new territory. I've never had the ability to > check the disk integrity before. So what is a sensible > scrub schedule? Monthly? Well, I do it by the book (I also service my car on the manufacturers intervals [but not the dealers]). I scrub once per mon

[OpenIndiana-discuss] is there a need for a US mirror?

2012-09-27 Thread Jason Matthews
I saw the thread about a new mirror in Europe. Does OI need an US mirrors in San Francisco or NoVA? I may be able to help, but I would like to get a better understanding of the current bandwidth usage. Thanks, j. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list Op

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 1rst mirror in Europe: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
> 2 hours left till download is finished! Which download speeds do you folks get? Here in Berlin I get 1.2MBytes/sec. Ken from the US east coast reported: 209kb/s avg once it got busy, but I saw 650kb/s However, meanwhile we have the first mirror. Andrej Javoršek from Faculty of Natural Scie

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Thu, 9/27/12, Richard Elling wrote: > > > > zfs_scrub_delay = 100 > > a bit extreme, but probably ok > > > zfs_scan_idle = 1000 > > no, you'll want to make this smaller. OK, Thanks. > Weekly scrubs are a bit extreme. Is your hardware unreliable > enough that you need > to scrub we

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 27, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > --- On Thu, 9/27/12, Richard Elling wrote: > >> From: Richard Elling >> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub >> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" >> Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012, 3:46 P

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Thu, 9/27/12, Richard Elling wrote: > From: Richard Elling > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" > Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012, 3:46 PM > On Sep 27, 2012, at 11:51 AM, > Reginald Beardsley > wrote

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 27, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > Where would I find information about the kernel level tunable parameters? > Are there specific parameters you have in mind? UTSL, http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/fs/zfs/dsl_scan.c#61 The most importa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread James Carlson
Reginald Beardsley wrote: > If physical resources can be allocated on a per zone basis that would be > strong motivation to learn more and setup a zone to manage the filesystem. See the "pool" option in zonecfg(1M). You can set up resource limitations on a per-zone basis by creating resource poo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Daniel Kjar
I see the same on my file server when I scrub the home pool. I can't do it when users are on as it slows down quite a bit. That is just the file server, the users are running off a devoted 8 processor machine with 32gb of ram, the file server just serves them their home folders but the I/O mu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Wrong link on wiki page

2012-09-27 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-09-27 17:57, Gary Mills пишет: Can somebody tell me how to fix this? I created a link to a new page for `Remote console' on: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/4.+System+Administration Unlike the others, this link leads to: http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley
Where would I find information about the kernel level tunable parameters? Are there specific parameters you have in mind? What I'm seeing is very slow loads of OpenOffice. It's certainly not quick under the best of circumstances, but this was particularly slow. I just needed to read a bunch

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

2012-09-27 Thread Daniel Kjar
2 hours left till download is finished! On 09/27/12 12:55 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: Glad you like this! Thank you too, Professor Daniel. For your interest. I'm damn happy there are still some SPARC fellows who waited for this. Thanks also for the restaurant invitation, only the 7 thousand kil

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 27, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > The only thing google turned up was "stop the scrub if it impacts performance > too badly" which is not really all that helpful. Or ways to speed up scrubs & > resilvers. On modern ZFS implementations, scrub I/O is throttled to avoid imp

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Roel_D
Afaik you can set parameters for computingpower to LWPS groups in solaris10 and asign groups to zones. Just like you want. But zfs is managed from the core(global) zone. For the zone itself a global asigned zfs partition is a standard partition. Kind regards, The out-side Op 27 sep. 2012

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Thu, 9/27/12, Robbie Crash wrote: > From: Robbie Crash > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" > Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012, 11:10 AM > Right, my OI box sits in the back > streaming media, so I don'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
Glad you like this! Thank you too, Professor Daniel. For your interest. I'm damn happy there are still some SPARC fellows who waited for this. Thanks also for the restaurant invitation, only the 7 thousand kilometers are a problem ... If I'm ever in the region again, then ... I just hope it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

2012-09-27 Thread Bryan N Iotti
Thank you very much! I'll be trying it on the E250 and Ultra-5. Amazing pictures, BTW ;) Bryan ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Preliminary Download link: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

2012-09-27 Thread Daniel Kjar
THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS! You are the best Martin! On 09/27/12 12:44 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: Hi! Here is a mail from Al Hopper, well-known from genunix.org, who once again arranged the hosting. It is unbelievable how much effort and money he puts in supporting community projects lik

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Robbie Crash
Right, my OI box sits in the back streaming media, so I don't need it to do anything else. I sometimes forget that people use computers in ways I do not. On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: > On 27/09/2012 18:00, Robbie Crash wrote: > >> But doesn't that also limit the m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 27/09/2012 18:00, Robbie Crash wrote: But doesn't that also limit the maximum that the system will use for all ZFS anything? So you'd be cutting all ZFS performance, not just limiting what's used during scrub? Yep, but if you fall into the category of guys who need the machine for other work

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Robbie Crash
But doesn't that also limit the maximum that the system will use for all ZFS anything? So you'd be cutting all ZFS performance, not just limiting what's used during scrub? On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: > On 27/09/2012 17:44, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > >> >> From

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 27/09/2012 17:44, Reginald Beardsley wrote: From observed behavior, it appears that the scrub is consuming too large a share of DRAM (12 GB in this case). in /etc/system: (then reboot) set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x2 (=8 GB) cuts it to roughly that value. Also, you can set zfs primary

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mitigating the performance impact of scrub

2012-09-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley
The only thing google turned up was "stop the scrub if it impacts performance too badly" which is not really all that helpful. Or ways to speed up scrubs & resilvers. In my case, I'd like to be able to run a scrub and have all the performance hits taken by the scrub process if the system has ot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Wrong link on wiki page

2012-09-27 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:32:59PM +0200, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > > > > Unlike the others, this link leads to: > > > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=23856255 > > I have fixed it now. It is simply a matter of remov

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] illumos-based Distros

2012-09-27 Thread Paolo Marcheschi
Thank you very much, this is a very interesting post, What do you think is the most stable to use in production environment ? Thank you Paolo On 09/26/12 12:27 AM, ken mays wrote: Ref: http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Distributions There are several widely different OS distributions b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] lsusb for OpenIndiana

2012-09-27 Thread Paolo Marcheschi
Hi One of the best site that I found for people coming from linux world is commandcomparo wiki: https://wikis.oracle.com/display/OTNTaskFinder/CommandComparo+Home Here you can find also the lsusb analog command: https://wikis.oracle.com/display/OTNTaskFinder/Hardware+Configuration Best regar

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Wrong link on wiki page

2012-09-27 Thread Jeppe Toustrup
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > Can somebody tell me how to fix this? I created a link to a new page > for `Remote console' on: > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/4.+System+Administration > > Unlike the others, this link leads to: > > http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Wrong link on wiki page

2012-09-27 Thread Gary Mills
Can somebody tell me how to fix this? I created a link to a new page for `Remote console' on: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/4.+System+Administration Unlike the others, this link leads to: http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=23856255 That's clearly incorrect. --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-27 Thread Roel_D
Hi Martin, I have 4 sparc processors TIIIi and some memory laying here, waiting for someone. I'd like do donate them to you if you like. Just to appreciate your work. Are you interested? Kind regards, The out-side Op 27 sep. 2012 om 09:59 heeft Martin Bochnig het volgende geschreven:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > Hi Martin! > > >> As of quality: The iso is kept unchanged for 2 weeks. As nobody from >> either OI or Illumos has _ever_ offered me any upload link (did I >> overlook sth?) > > I think this was more a communications problem. For example,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-27 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hi Martin! > As of quality: The iso is kept unchanged for 2 weeks. As nobody from > either OI or Illumos has _ever_ offered me any upload link (did I > overlook sth?) I think this was more a communications problem. For example, it was not clear to me that you were *waiting* for someone to give

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SPARC-OpenIndiana Screenshots

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > Hi Martin! > > > These screens look very nice indeed!! Looking forward to trying out > your distribution on my E4500. :-) > > However, I prefer quality. So if we need to wait a few days more until > everything is finished, that is fine w