Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-08 Thread Bruce Riddle
Dennis Clarke wrote: How does Solaris load up its tasks and know when to say "stop, no more please"? I am curious about this and figured I'd toss it out here. I could spend a life time digging into "The Magic Garden Explained" or "Solaris Internals" as well as man pages but the only person that

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: > resources at hand. They do a very fine job of totally protecting me from > such obscenities as : > > :(){ :|:& }; : > > When presented to the bash shell that seems to really upset the system. IT > will completely crash a Red Hat Enterprise 4 server bu

Re: [osol-discuss] hg source repository down ?

2006-11-08 Thread Eric Enright
On 11/8/06, T.J. Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: bash-3.00# hg clone ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/onnv/onnv-gate remote: abort: repository hg/onnv/onnv-gate not found! abort: no response from remote hg! bash-3.00# date Wed Nov 8 23:33:24 CST 2006 bash-3.00# It is down: http://www.opensolaris.or

[osol-discuss] hg source repository down ?

2006-11-08 Thread T.J. Yang
bash-3.00# hg clone ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/onnv/onnv-gate remote: abort: repository hg/onnv/onnv-gate not found! abort: no response from remote hg! bash-3.00# date Wed Nov 8 23:33:24 CST 2006 bash-3.00# tj This message posted from opensolaris.org _

[osol-discuss] Solaris on a Dell E521?

2006-11-08 Thread Claus Assmann
I didn't find this machine in the HCL (maybe it's too new), hence I'm asking here: is anyone running Solaris on a Dell E521 (with an AMD X2 processor)? I found some entries for the nForce 430 chipset (which is used by that machine), but that might be a different motherboard. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
> You have hundreds of unzip operations to do, but observe a maximum > of only 34 at any one time. I guess it's possible that the number > of processes went higher between vmstat samples, but I think what > you're seeing here is the effect of some of those unzips finishing. Let's try that with

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
Firstly, thank you Rich for wading in here with your substantial skills on the subject at hand. I was just thumbing and fumbling through Solaris Systems Programming looking for the correct chapter. I also have "The Magic Garden Explained" by Goodheart & Cox here in my hands and I note that the o

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: > How does Solaris load up its tasks and know when to say "stop, no more > please"? Provided the kernel doesn't run out of VM, I don't think the Solaris kernel ever says that (I'm thinking here of pathalogical fork-bomb experiments, where the load has gon

[osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
How does Solaris load up its tasks and know when to say "stop, no more please"? I am curious about this and figured I'd toss it out here. I could spend a life time digging into "The Magic Garden Explained" or "Solaris Internals" as well as man pages but the only person that would benefit is me.

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread James C. McPherson
Sarah Jelinek wrote: ... One other piece of data.. the zones upgrade project is very close to putback. If you can hang tight until that integrates, another build maybe, then you can do your upgrades. Fortunately for me, the box that I've got zones on can wait until I get back from Beijing in t

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Sarah Jelinek
James C. McPherson wrote: Sarah Jelinek wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( System was put on mirrored SVM volume. Zones (zone upgrade not yet supported in Nevada, I thin

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Sarah Jelinek
James C. McPherson wrote: Sarah Jelinek wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( System was put on mirrored SVM volume. Zones (zone upgrade not yet supported in Nevada, I thin

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread James C. McPherson
Sarah Jelinek wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( System was put on mirrored SVM volume. Zones (zone upgrade not yet supported in Nevada, I think)? No, not yet. Due soon.

[osol-discuss] JXTA plugin for Gaim

2006-11-08 Thread Henry Jen
Hi, I had implemented a JXTA plugin for Gaim to support group chat based on JXTA[1][2] technology, to be more specific, MyJxta[3] group chat. It is not perfect but is ready to use, and I am looking forward to use it as basis to add more collaborative features can be offered by JXTA. A few t

[osol-discuss] Re: AHCI SATA support

2006-11-08 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 11/3/06, Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I wonder what is the status of the AHCI SATA driver ? This feature is tracked by 6261241 AHCI driver is needed for ICH6 and SATA native mode [1] 6418168 AHCI driver is needed for VIA vt8251 [2] Is there any time schedule that can be share

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing the VTOC of a Solaris 10 Installation DVD

2006-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Artem Kachitchkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jay, > > > Does anyone know how to calculate a new checksum for the DVD VTOC? Any help > > would be greatly appreciated. > > I'm not an expert in this area, but looking at the scsi target driver: > > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-

[osol-discuss] Re: snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Charles Meeks
> Hello opensolaris-discuss, > > I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 > workstation. > Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( > System was put on mirrored SVM volume. > > > -- > Best regards, > Robert > > ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ttp://milek.blogspot.com > > _

Re[2]: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Menno, Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 3:44:38 PM, you wrote: >> Hello opensolaris-discuss, >> >> I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. >> Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( >> ML> Did you have any zones configured perhaps? If zones are present ML> you won't be pre

[osol-discuss] ganglia-3.0.3 and Solaris 10 6/06

2006-11-08 Thread Hugo Hernandez
Hi folks, I am trying to configure ganglia to monitor our cluster but I am experiencing a lot of problems. Initially, after a lot of compilation for different packages (rrdtool, libart, freetype, and, of course, ganglia) I have the php application running but the information of each node is no

Re: [osol-discuss] Opening closed stuff by the community?

2006-11-08 Thread Josh Berkus
Rich, > I understand that these are probably due to limitations of Sun's > resources, however, is there any way that community members can > help here, even if under NDA? Based on no direct knowledge whatsoever, I'd think it more likely that those components have large amounts of code licensed t

Re: [osol-discuss] Opening closed stuff by the community?

2006-11-08 Thread Stephen Harpster
Resources are exactly what's required. Unfortunately, the resources needed are legal ones, i.e., lawyers that can track down 3rd party licenses. Having a community member under NDA isn't going to able to do that. It would take a lawyer with access to the licenses that Sun has negotiated over

[osol-discuss] Opening closed stuff by the community?

2006-11-08 Thread Rich Teer
Hi all, I see on the downloads page that "[t]here are no plans to make the following consolidations available as open source": CDE OpenWindows SPARC networking drivers HW Partners support I understand that these are probably due to limitations of Sun's resources,

Re: [osol-discuss] Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2006-11-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Josh Hurst wrote: > Why have all lists at opensolaris.org a -discuss ending? Its confusing. They're not, hence opensolaris-code et al. The -discuss lists are intended for general discussion about the bit before the "-", so zfs-discuss is for general discussions about ZFS, and

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing the VTOC of a Solaris 10 Installation DVD

2006-11-08 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
Jay, Does anyone know how to calculate a new checksum for the DVD VTOC? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not an expert in this area, but looking at the scsi target driver: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/scsi/targets/sd.c#5723 it appears

[osol-discuss] Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2006-11-08 Thread Josh Hurst
Why have all lists at opensolaris.org a -discuss ending? Its confusing. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 8, 2006 6:58 PM Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is an automatically generated De

[osol-discuss] roadmap has changed so much?

2006-11-08 Thread Erast Benson
I'm looking on new roadmap page at: http://opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/ For building OpenSolaris distro we all need: 1) Manual pages for ON/NWS commands and utilities; 2) Locales for other than C and iso_8859_1 (/usr/lib/locale); 3) iconv tables (/usr/lib/iconv); What are the plan to CDDL

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Huub
Joerg Schilling wrote: Huub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You did not follow the instructions in README.install: star -copy -p -sparse -no-fsync -time -xdot bs=1m fs=32m -C /.cdrom/ . /mnt Jörg I missed that space between . and /mnt. Though I mounted this way: "mount /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 /mnt",

Re: [osol-discuss] Fibre-channel raid performance issues

2006-11-08 Thread Frank Hofmann
Are you interested in helping with a project rewriting the PCFS driver ? In short, PCFS for FAT32 s*cks. It's nowhere close to the performance it could have. Now FAT32 surely has abysmal (non-)performance in the degraded case (think a 4GB file made from 8 million 512-Byte fragments), but it n

Re: [osol-discuss] Fibre-channel raid performance issues

2006-11-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>Are there any known performance issues with using FAT32 or are any tricks that >could increase the performance? FAT32 is really slow, perhaps more so in Solaris but also in general. Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opens

[osol-discuss] qlc.conf, how to make one card in 2 gb and 2 in 4gb ?

2006-11-08 Thread samuel
qlc.conf, how to make one card in 2 gb and 2 in 4gb ? thank sam This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Fibre-channel raid performance issues

2006-11-08 Thread Mike Pleasance
I'm working on a project that uses a fibre-channel raid across several systems (not simultaneously). The raid is formatted with a FAT32 file system so that it can be accessed from VxWorks, Windows and Solaris. We are running Solaris 10 06/06 for Sparc. The raid is capable of a raw data rate i

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Huub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You did not follow the instructions in README.install: > > > > star -copy -p -sparse -no-fsync -time -xdot bs=1m fs=32m -C /.cdrom/ . /mnt > > > > > > > > Jörg > > > > I missed that space between . and /mnt. Though I mounted this way: > "mount /dev/d

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Sarah Jelinek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( System was put on mirrored SVM volume. Zones (zone upgrade not yet supported in Nevada, I think)? No, not yet. Due soon. Did you

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Menno Lageman
> Hello opensolaris-discuss, > > I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. > Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( > Did you have any zones configured perhaps? If zones are present you won't be presented with the Upgrade option. Menno

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Huub
You did not follow the instructions in README.install: star -copy -p -sparse -no-fsync -time -xdot bs=1m fs=32m -C /.cdrom/ . /mnt Jörg I missed that space between . and /mnt. Though I mounted this way: "mount /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 /mnt", now it gives: star: I/O error. Cannot make dir './'.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Huub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Here you try to newfs the full disk. > > > > You need to newfs the slices you want ufs filesystems on, e.g., > > c0t1d0s0 > > > > Casper > > Thank you. That worked. And another problem shows up. According to step > 5., I should copy the files tree us

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>Hello opensolaris-discuss, > > I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. > Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( > > System was put on mirrored SVM volume. Zones (zone upgrade not yet supported in Nevada, I think)? Checked the log file? Casper

[osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( System was put on mirrored SVM volume. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mil

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Huub
Here you try to newfs the full disk. You need to newfs the slices you want ufs filesystems on, e.g., c0t1d0s0 Casper Thank you. That worked. And another problem shows up. According to step 5., I should copy the files tree using 'star': "star -copy -p -sparse -no-fsync -time -xdot bs

[osol-discuss] Reminder: one week to go to next LOSUG meeting, 15th November!

2006-11-08 Thread Sean Sprague
Hello again all, Just a reminder that the next LOSUG meeting is just a week away! Please do not forget to let me know if you plan to attend. For more information, please visit: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/losug/ We hope to see you on the 15th! Thanks and regards...

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Huub wrote: This should work. Jörg Being still more used to Linux disk-names like /dev/hda, I find 4 disks(?): c0t1d0p0..4, c0t1d0s0..15, c1d0p0..4 and c1d0s0..15. The disk that is destined to be used is the 1st drive, 2nd IDE controller, or in Linux terms: /dev/hdc. The CDROM drive is 2n

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>Being still more used to Linux disk-names like /dev/hda, I find 4 >disks(?): c0t1d0p0..4, c0t1d0s0..15, c1d0p0..4 and c1d0s0..15. The disk >that is destined to be used is the 1st drive, 2nd IDE controller, or in >Linux terms: /dev/hdc. The CDROM drive is 2nd drive, 1st IDE controller. These

[osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris/Schillix question...

2006-11-08 Thread Huub
This should work. Jörg Being still more used to Linux disk-names like /dev/hda, I find 4 disks(?): c0t1d0p0..4, c0t1d0s0..15, c1d0p0..4 and c1d0s0..15. The disk that is destined to be used is the 1st drive, 2nd IDE controller, or in Linux terms: /dev/hdc. The CDROM drive is 2nd drive, 1st