Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OT Help with Repair of HPxw8600

2020-04-19 Thread Bill Czermak
I used to build quality clones. My thoughts were that static was used in the industry as an excuse for low quality components failing. However I should add that I wore natural fibre clothes and had wool carpets so generally did not have a static problem in the office or at home. I would have rem

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OT Help with Repair of HPxw8600

2020-04-19 Thread Jonathan Adams
Um, vacuuming a computer can really hurt, especially old computers. You can get static build up on the nozzle of the hoover, which can fry chips ... I know from experience :-\ 4 months ago I probably had spare memory chips, but it all went in the skip when the office closed. Jon On Sun, 19 Apr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OT Help with Repair of HPxw8600

2020-04-19 Thread Till Wegmüller
The most common thing that happens for me is dust in the electronic connectors. Although I do live in a house with terrible dust issue. Vacuuming the Machine will not hurt though. Greeting Till On 19.04.20 20:06, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sorry about OT topic but hoped someone here could offer helpf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OT Help with Repair of HPxw8600

2020-04-19 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 19.04.20 um 20:06 schrieb Harry Putnam: Sorry about OT topic but hoped someone here could offer helpful URLS and such. My old HP xw8600 that I have been running OI one for some years has broke down. I'm a bit lost at trying to repair an old HP xw8600. I get 5 beeps pause and repeat on attem

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OT Help with Repair of HPxw8600

2020-04-19 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
Memtest86+ is a godsend. " 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Long scrub times for OpenIndiana oi_151a9 pool?

2020-04-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
As a last follow-up, I see that the OpenIndiana installer has these settings in /etc/system: set zfs:zfs_arc_max=0x4002000 set zfs:zfs_vdev_cache_size=0 I am thinking that these reduced settings for the USB-based installer are making everything to do with my imported pool much slower. Zfs is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Long scrub times for OpenIndiana oi_151a9 pool?

2020-04-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
Things are going better for my scrub now. It seemed stuck at 0.95% completion but now I see it is suddenly 52.08% done (oops, now at 70.33% done while writing this mail!) and I finally see significant data movement from the disks. This pool has 16155 snapshots. It appears that snapshots don'

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OT Help with Repair of HPxw8600

2020-04-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Sorry about OT topic but hoped someone here could offer helpful URLS and such. My old HP xw8600 that I have been running OI one for some years has broke down. I'm a bit lost at trying to repair an old HP xw8600. I get 5 beeps pause and repeat on attempt to boot. >From Manuals and such I find th

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Long scrub times for OpenIndiana oi_151a9 pool?

2020-04-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
I am planning to update my OpenIndiana oi_151a9 system by overwriting its boot disks using the latest OpenIndiana Hipster live USB image. My system (16 Xeon cores with 128GB RAM) has an attached SAS2 storage pool of 4 mirrors of SAS2 drives (8 1TB disks). These disk drives have never been the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to debug the boot sequence?

2020-04-19 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 19.04.20 um 10:00 schrieb Hubert Garavel: Hi everyone, At University Grenoble Alpes, I launched a master student project to try fixing some bugs in Illumos/OpenIndiana. This way, the student can learn the basics of an operating system, use Git, recompile a kernel, see real-life C code, and so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to debug the boot sequence?

2020-04-19 Thread Michael Schuster
Dtrace does actually have support for that kind of operation (or it used to when I used it) - I think you should start with "anonymous" tracing, IIRC. HTH Michael Sent On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 10:01 Hubert Garavel wrote: > Hi everyone, > > At University Grenoble Alpes, I launched a master student

[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to debug the boot sequence?

2020-04-19 Thread Hubert Garavel
Hi everyone, At University Grenoble Alpes, I launched a master student project to try fixing some bugs in Illumos/OpenIndiana. This way, the student can learn the basics of an operating system, use Git, recompile a kernel, see real-life C code, and so on. As a first assignment, I chose bug #10041