Re: [osol-discuss] Not a UFS filesystem error after copying the root disk (x86)

2006-10-26 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
[ i'm resending this email which i originally sent on Oct 16 but got silently dropped due to local host mail configuration problems. ] On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 06:23:40PM -0700, Trevor Maggs wrote: > Anyone who knows the solution please tell me why I am having this problem? > > Motherboard: ASUS

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for easypci (fwd)

2006-10-26 Thread Freeman . Liu
A powerful tool to operate the pci/pice registers and to reassign interrupt. I have not awared that it's not open for its danger. Burke, Christopher B. [C] wrote: What is pcitool? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Freeman Liu Sent: Wedn

[osol-discuss] swap space allocation

2006-10-26 Thread Gary
Hello! Is there a rule of thumb for allocating swap space on a larger machine? For example, a V1280, 12 CPU's and 48Gb of memory. Thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [osol-discuss] Observers vs. contributors

2006-10-26 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Young Joo Pintaske wrote On 10/27/06 05:56,: Hi! I noticed a huge number of "Views" while watching I18n community email archives the other day. Look at the Views column in the following link: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/index.jspa?categoryID=1 > > For example, while there are 22 emails in

[osol-discuss] Project proposal: smf-doc

2006-10-26 Thread Liane Praza
I'd like to request creation of an SMF Documentation project (smf-doc). The goal of this project is to provide a location and source code repository for collaboration and comment on SMF documentation. Expected documentation for early collaboration is an SMF developer guide and SMF FAQ. Product-b

Re: [osol-discuss] SIlly Question about exceptions

2006-10-26 Thread Bart Smaalders
Eric Enright wrote: On 10/26/06, Robert Lunnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can anyone give me an explanation of what exactly would cause a signal for Segmentation Violation - Page - Fault to be returned. The Memory region accessed was previously accessed successfully then suddenly causes a page

Re: [osol-discuss] SIlly Question about exceptions

2006-10-26 Thread Eric Enright
On 10/26/06, Robert Lunnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can anyone give me an explanation of what exactly would cause a signal for Segmentation Violation - Page - Fault to be returned. The Memory region accessed was previously accessed successfully then suddenly causes a page fault. Is there a way

[osol-discuss] SIlly Question about exceptions

2006-10-26 Thread Robert Lunnon
Can anyone give me an explanation of what exactly would cause a signal for Segmentation Violation - Page - Fault to be returned. The Memory region accessed was previously accessed successfully then suddenly causes a page fault. Is there a way to look at the page attributes of a memory region in

Re: [osol-discuss] The bug system (b.o.o.) is down

2006-10-26 Thread Derek Cicero
Derek Cicero wrote: Due to a major blizzard and power outage in Colorado. I do not have an ETA as to when it will be back up. It is back up. Sorry for any inconvenience. Derek Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division __

[osol-discuss] Re: Hypervisor for SPARC T1

2006-10-26 Thread Bernd Schemmer
> You could try searching the sun blogs: > > > ttp://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablogs.sun.com+log > ical+domains&btnG=Search Thanks for the hint - I searched for "Hypervisor" but "Logical Domains" has much more results regards Bernd This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[osol-discuss] Re: Hypervisor for SPARC T1

2006-10-26 Thread Haik Aftandilian
You could try searching the sun blogs: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablogs.sun.com+logical+domains&btnG=Search This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Observers vs. contributors

2006-10-26 Thread Young Joo Pintaske
Hi! I noticed a huge number of "Views" while watching I18n community email archives the other day. Look at the Views column in the following link: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/index.jspa?categoryID=1 For example, while there are 22 emails in the Korean i18n community (g11n-ko-discuss), ther

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: x86 vs SPARC

2006-10-26 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Gino Ruopolo wrote: > Why "load average" is not interesting? > (if I remember well load value is # of runnable process waiting for cpu ...) You remember wrongly. :-) The load average is the number of runnable processes PLUS the number of running processes. > Unfortunately

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: x86 vs SPARC

2006-10-26 Thread Gino Ruopolo
>> My ---initial testing--- between a 4x880 Opteron and SF4800 12x USIII >> 1200 Mhz are showing lower load on the SF4800 when more than 10.000 process >> >>running. >> >> Anyway doing benchmark is not easy :) > >Load average isn't interesting. What is interesting is throughput... Why "load avera

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: newbe-where can I obtain a media kit

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Jones
Thank you for the information perhaps I could suggest a link or stock item on Sun's main site at this address? But a small charge from a UK or European retailer like Amazon would be the best solution? http://globalspecials.sun.com/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayPage&Locale=en_US&id=Pro

[osol-discuss] recreate Metaset in DR Scenario

2006-10-26 Thread Alex Marti
I do a storage based data replication for disater recovery with SVM from a Sun Cluster 3.1 with Truecopy (Hitachi) of a Oracle RAC database (raw devices) and map the device to a DRsite (single host). I see the disk with format and try to recreate the metaset an soft partition with: metaset -s

[osol-discuss] Re: VMWare Server, Sol10 6/06 - cant boot because 64bit kernel

2006-10-26 Thread Jens
Hi http://www.vmware.com/support/kb/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2074 dont help me...dont no why, but eeprom settings will note save. I have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst with kernel/unix after multiboot. Regards This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Hypervisor for SPARC T1

2006-10-26 Thread Dave Marquardt
"Bernd" == Bernd Schemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> So you're talking here about the LDOMs support in the hypervisor, not >>> just the hypervisor. Bernd> Yes, I just want to make myself familiar with the abilities and Bernd> restrictions of the hypervisor support on the new SPARC T1 CPUs Be

[osol-discuss] Re: Hypervisor for SPARC T1

2006-10-26 Thread Bernd Schemmer
>>So you're talking here about the LDOMs support in the hypervisor, not >>just the hypervisor. Yes, I just want to make myself familiar with the abilities and restrictions of the hypervisor support on the new SPARC T1 CPUs from an Solaris administration point of view. I'm not much interested in

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: x86 vs SPARC

2006-10-26 Thread Bart Smaalders
Gino Ruopolo wrote: Also other sysadmin I know found the same when switched from Sparc to Opteron... Then you know the wrong sysadmins. :| Simple test: Compile some files in parallel (dmake -j X) on a 2 cpu box: (1) dmake -j 2 real 1:18.18 user 1:37.05 sys

Re: [osol-discuss] Hypervisor for SPARC T1

2006-10-26 Thread Dave Marquardt
"Bernd" == Bernd Schemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bernd> There are rumours that Solaris 10 Update 3 will contain support Bernd> for the hypervisor of the SPARC T1 CPUS in the T1000 / T2000. Bernd> I've searched on opensolaris.org, sunsolve, docs.sun.com, and Bernd> www.opensparc.net but I did

Re: [osol-discuss] Hypervisor for SPARC T1

2006-10-26 Thread Frank Hofmann
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Bernd Schemmer wrote: There are rumours that Solaris 10 Update 3 will contain support for the hypervisor of the SPARC T1 CPUS in the T1000 / T2000. I don't know about Update 3. But the hypervisor is an integral part of sun4v. Just T1000/T2000 firmware that ships at the mo

[osol-discuss] Re: Will the Solaris OS run on your x86 system? Click to find out.

2006-10-26 Thread Andrew Pattison
Nice tool. The web page that describes the tool has some badly resized images on it, which doesn't look very professional. Also, the tool has a link to a web address at the bottom of the window, when I run it on my system, that links to a site that has free NIC drivers, but there is no explanati

[osol-discuss] Hypervisor for SPARC T1

2006-10-26 Thread Bernd Schemmer
There are rumours that Solaris 10 Update 3 will contain support for the hypervisor of the SPARC T1 CPUS in the T1000 / T2000. I've searched on opensolaris.org, sunsolve, docs.sun.com, and www.opensparc.net but I did not find any relevant information on how to use the hypervisor. Where can I fin

Re: [osol-discuss] Will the Solaris OS run on your x86 system? Click to find out.

2006-10-26 Thread Willi Burmeister
Hi, > Does the Solaris OS support your x86 PCI devices? > Your answer may be only a click away with the new > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html";>Sun Device > Detection Tool. Nice tool, but why does it not run on Solaris Nevada? Willi _

[osol-discuss] The bug system (b.o.o.) is down

2006-10-26 Thread Derek Cicero
Due to a major blizzard and power outage in Colorado. I do not have an ETA as to when it will be back up. Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolari

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: x86 vs SPARC

2006-10-26 Thread Gino Ruopolo
> > Also other sysadmin I know found the same when > switched from Sparc to Opteron... > > Then you know the wrong sysadmins. :| > Simple test: Compile some files in parallel (dmake -j > X) on a 2 cpu box: > > (1) dmake -j 2 > real 1:18.18 > user 1:37.05 > sys

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: x86 vs SPARC

2006-10-26 Thread Daniel Rock
Gino Ruopolo schrieb: Galvin Maltby wrote: That's never been my experience. Not my experience neither. Also other sysadmin I know found the same when switched from Sparc to Opteron... Then you know the wrong sysadmins. Simple test: Compile some files in parallel (dmake -j X) on a 2 cpu bo

Re: [osol-discuss] queue_alloc calling thr_panic due to _private_mmap failure?

2006-10-26 Thread Rod Evans
David McDaniel wrote: OK, I confess, this isnt opensolaris, its S10 0606. But a lot of smart people hang out here so I'll post anyway. A multithreaded process core dumps with this traceback: fed40f90 _lwp_kill (ffbfeec8, fed700b8, 39eb4, 0, fed68284, fed70904) + 8 fed2e574 thr_panic (fed55e1

[osol-discuss] queue_alloc calling thr_panic due to _private_mmap failure?

2006-10-26 Thread David McDaniel
OK, I confess, this isnt opensolaris, its S10 0606. But a lot of smart people hang out here so I'll post anyway. A multithreaded process core dumps with this traceback: fed40f90 _lwp_kill (ffbfeec8, fed700b8, 39eb4, 0, fed68284, fed70904) + 8 fed2e574 thr_panic (fed55e10, 65, 39de0, feca2390,

[osol-discuss] VMWare Server, Sol10 6/06 - cant boot because 64bit kernel

2006-10-26 Thread Jens
Hi, im not sure where to serach. Within Sol10 6/06 or inside VMware. I like to install Sol10 on 32bit-WinXP, VMware-Server 1.0.1. - Hardware: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, 2 Gig Ram On my Laptop, a Centrino, it works perfect. After bootup for install i can see that Sol10 boots up with the 32bit Ker

Re: [osol-discuss] Will the Solaris OS run on your x86 system? Click to find out.

2006-10-26 Thread Tao Chen
On 10/26/06, Alta Elstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does the Solaris OS support your x86 PCI devices? Your answer may be only a click away with the new http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html";>Sun Device Detection Tool. I happened to read your blog and tried the tool just now o

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 hangs at NIC config

2006-10-26 Thread James Carlson
GN writes: > A while ago I tried to install Solaris 10 on a test machine but > everytime I come to the network configuration, it just hangs when i > choose DHCP for my NIC to obtain its IP from my ISP. [...] > I have 2 NICs on the test machine, a 3Com 3c905C-TX/TX-M (primary, > connected to the mod

[osol-discuss] Will the Solaris OS run on your x86 system? Click to find out.

2006-10-26 Thread Alta Elstad
Does the Solaris OS support your x86 PCI devices? Your answer may be only a click away with the new http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html";>Sun Device Detection Tool. Nothing to install - just click and run. Sun Device Detection Tool detects devices in your x86 system and then d

[osol-discuss] Re: x86 vs SPARC

2006-10-26 Thread Gino Ruopolo
>> T2000 slow, really slow for that app :( >for the t2000 to be shown the best light you need to run 24-32 copies of the >single >threaded app to shine. I think the performances of my app are deeply depending on cache size. For example a 4800 with 8 USIII 900Mhz is much faster the

[osol-discuss] Firefox 2.0 contrib. builds on Solaris10, Solaris8/9 are available

2006-10-26 Thread Dave Lin
Please do NOT reply to this address. If you have any problems, feel free to send email to the alias "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Firefox 2.0 contrib. builds on Solaris10, Solaris8/9 are now available on mozilla.com Download Page and Location == http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firef

[osol-discuss] Re: x86 vs SPARC

2006-10-26 Thread Gino Ruopolo
> > I'm doing some serious comparison to decide what to > do with some old USIII 900 servers. > > What do you mean by the 900? 900MHz US-III - you > quite 750MHz below. We have on production several servers using USIII 900Mhz and 1200Mhz and seriously thinking on replacing them with Opterons. I

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: porting a driver from Linux

2006-10-26 Thread Jiri Sasek
Casper Concept of keeping SUNW*r and SUNW*u packages separately have its roots in the beginning of 90's where the netbooting was usually done by loading (usually via tftp) of RAM-disk image and the "big" files was placed on nfs-mounted "/usr filesystem". Currently people thinking differently...

[osol-discuss] Solaris 10 hangs at NIC config

2006-10-26 Thread GN
Hi, A while ago I tried to install Solaris 10 on a test machine but everytime I come to the network configuration, it just hangs when i choose DHCP for my NIC to obtain its IP from my ISP. Solaris without internet connection is useless to me and as I'm very new to this OS I have no clue how to

Re: [osol-discuss] x86 vs SPARC

2006-10-26 Thread James Dickens
On 10/26/06, Gavin Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HiOn 10/25/06 10:24, Gino Ruopolo wrote:> Hi All,>> - THIS IS NOT A FLAME!! --I'll take your word for it :-)>> I'm doing some serious comparison to decide what to do with some old USIII 900 servers. What do you mean by the 900?  900MHz US

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Cardbus report: PCMCIA CDMA modem

2006-10-26 Thread Douglas Atique
But what is the reason? Is the compiler different? Maybe the headers in /usr/include? After all, I am building a new kernel image that will be freestanding at run-time. What dependency is there on the host compilation environment? By the way, is there a difference between the Solaris Express do

RE: [osol-discuss] Proposal for easypci (fwd)

2006-10-26 Thread Burke, Christopher B. [C]
What is pcitool? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Freeman Liu Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:01 PM To: Cyril Plisko Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for easypci (fwd) Hi

Re: [osol-discuss] x86 vs SPARC

2006-10-26 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi On 10/25/06 10:24, Gino Ruopolo wrote: Hi All, - THIS IS NOT A FLAME!! -- I'll take your word for it :-) I'm doing some serious comparison to decide what to do with some old USIII 900 servers. What do you mean by the 900? 900MHz US-III - you quite 750MHz below. My applicat

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-26 Thread Jürgen Keil
> ZFS 11.0 on Solaris release 06/06, hangs systems when > trying to copy files from my VXFS 4.1 file system. > any ideas what this problem could be?. What kind of system is that? How much memory is installed? I'm able to hang an Ultra 60 with 256 MByte of main memory, simply by writing big files

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for easypci (fwd)

2006-10-26 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 10/26/06, Freeman Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Cyril, I have contact the original author of pcitool and found pcitool will not be available for community. It will be impossible for easypci to be integrated into opensolaris without it. I'll find another way, for I believe this tool is u