> So, I guess that the high cpu usage combined with
> low disk utilization (%b) could indicate something,
> right? Am I looking at kernel driver issues or what?
> I'm using an Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard with an
> Nforce chipset.
If you are using the Nforce chipset, then you are
running in PATA mode
Ola Leifler wrote:
I'm aware that this is not an optimal setup for zfs given more
hardware resources, but currently I'm constrained by the size of the
server box, cost (it's only a home server) and such considerations.
My rationale was basically that I wanted the redundancy of a mirror,
the ease
Joerg Schilling wrote:
James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
gns writes:
Project proposal : busybox-ksh93
Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for
OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros
and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup
James Carlson wrote:
gns writes:
Project proposal : busybox-ksh93
Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for
OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros
and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time
performance. This should also b
Hi,
If SVM or Shared QFS is striping data across multiple disks and
one of the disk replies with I/O error, how is that error handled? In
case error is persistant, does SVM or shared QFS will roll back that
transaction?
For example, lets say I am striping across 4 disks using SVM.
While writ
I'm aware that this is not an optimal setup for zfs given more hardware
resources, but currently I'm constrained by the size of the server box, cost
(it's only a home server) and such considerations. My rationale was basically
that I wanted the redundancy of a mirror, the ease of filesystem mana
Kaiwai:
Oh, another thing to consider. Remember that Fluendo's plugins only
work with GStreamer 0.10. Unfortunately GStreamer 0.10 is *not*
compatible with GStreamer 0.8, which is what we ship on Solaris 10. If
there is a desire to support Fluendo's advanced plugins on Solaris 10,
then it woul
Kaiwai:
The JDS multimedia team has the following FAQ which discusses the
different media programs on Solaris and their functionality. You
might find this useful:
http://sceri.prc.sun.com/wiki//index.php/RealPlayer_Supportted_file_type#FAQ
Ignore the fact that the URL indicates it is RealP
Hey,
Stephen Lau wrote:
> Mark J. Nelson wrote:
>> 7. I haven't figured out what will be needed in the way of an on-discuss
>>mailing list. We traditionally have not had such a beast inside Sun,
>>though on-all has occasionally been [ab]used in this fashion.
>>
>>Anybody got an opinio
Hi Tom,
Welcome, you can find a lot of useful information linked from the
Documentation Community here:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation
You might also start with the OpenSolaris Developer's Reference Guide here:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/devref_toc/
For comm
Thanks, Mark... A few notes and lots of trimming :)
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Mark J. Nelson wrote:
[...]
4. How the members of the C-Team are being [s]elected ?
Selected.
An excellent question, and one that cries out for both documentation and
change. Traditionally, it's a volunteer duty, and
Mark J. Nelson wrote:
7. I haven't figured out what will be needed in the way of an on-discuss
mailing list. We traditionally have not had such a beast inside Sun,
though on-all has occasionally been [ab]used in this fashion.
Anybody got an opinion on this?
I don't think we need an o
"C-Team
Consolidation Team: the release team managing a specific Consolidation.
"
So, before I start with the PSARC case integraition policy -
1. ON C-Team - who are these people ?
Since "managing a specific Consolidation" isn't really useful: this is the
group of people that review proj
Rob Giltrap wrote:
Seeing that Garrett has applied to Mentor it then your perceived problem
is solved as he is not a Sun person.
You might want to go doublecheck namefinder (just ignore the second entry
for Garrett.Deleteme.Damore)...
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 02/04/07, Shawn Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am running the latest version of opensolaris CE. I built the DVD last friday
and every time I attempt to register or update it simply hangs and does
nothing, to be honest the only way to kill the process is by ising the init
command to re
Shawn Raymond wrote:
>Do you know how to update opensolaris then? The updater tool will not run
>without registration login.
>
>
>
You upgrade to the nest release.
I always recommend leaving a spare slice the same size as your root when
installing so you can use Live Upgrade to do your upgrade
Shawn Raymond wrote:
>During the Patch updater it requires login to the registration, my account
>at sun lets me login but the application hangs and then will not let me
>update. The registration page does the same thing. Even though I have an
>account that I can login with at sun.
>
>
>
>
There
Solaris is a good OS. Unfortunately, its the last remaining SysV worth
learning. HP-UX is dead, as is IRIXmy Octane2 at home not
withstanding. Let's not make this a "the mountain has to come to
Mohammed" thing. The question is whether or not Solaris wants greater
mind share...that is the Linux
UNIX admin wrote:
So now we have some new binaries, some data files
that have not changed,
some binaries that are the same again.
Patch or Package ?
The documentation clearly states that a patch must never deliver new
functionality.
What documentation is that? It's clearly buggy.
And I
On 01/04/07, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 05:22:43PM +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>
>Just having a look around; along with hardware support, I thought it
>would be best to help provide a 'link database' to link up customer
>needs to sol
On 31/03/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Just having a look around; along with hardware support, I thought it would
be best to help provide a 'link database' to link up customer needs to
solutions that exist for Solaris.
Case in point, https://shop.fluendo.com/ who sell curr
On 31/03/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 31/03/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 31/03/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 30/03/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Yes, I can understand the chicken and the egg scenario, however, o
On 31/03/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 30/03/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, I can understand the chicken and the egg scenario, however, one has
to
> look at this; I went down the road today, window shopping, every laptop
I
> had a look at down at the compu
Hi,
Just having a look around; along with hardware support, I thought it would
be best to help provide a 'link database' to link up customer needs to
solutions that exist for Solaris.
Case in point, https://shop.fluendo.com/ who sell currently support for
WMA/WMV/Mp3 playback for Solaris x86/SPA
Hi,
Yes, I can understand the chicken and the egg scenario, however, one has to
look at this; I went down the road today, window shopping, every laptop I
had a look at down at the computer retailers had the Intel 3945 A/B/G
wireless chipset - it is the most popular chipset out there, and normally
I'm perfectly fine with no code coming back my way, I expected as
such. Really my only concern is that the code ends up rejected for
putback because someone perceived some NDA violation or another, which
would be very unfortunate. I'm not privy to the precise legal
encumberences with the code, so
If just having access to the i18n code rules out mentors, then you have
to rule out everyone with access to SWAN, as that code is posted in
places where anyone on SWAN can find it.
I would argue that as long as the mentor is not providing code back to
the student, then there shouldn't be any p
Seeing that Garrett has applied to Mentor it then your perceived problem
is solved as he is not a Sun person.
Personally I place the emancipation project very highly, it's only one
part of a much bigger issue but as the saying goes... you eat an
elephant one bite at a time.
John Sonnenschein
James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> gns writes:
> > Project proposal : busybox-ksh93
> >
> > Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for
> > OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros
> > and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run
Shawn Raymond wrote:
>I am running the latest version of opensolaris CE. I built the DVD last friday
>and every time I attempt to register or update it simply hangs and does
>nothing, to be honest the only way to kill the process is by ising the init
>command to restart the system. Is there an
I am running the latest version of opensolaris CE. I built the DVD last friday
and every time I attempt to register or update it simply hangs and does
nothing, to be honest the only way to kill the process is by ising the init
command to restart the system. Is there an issue or does anyone know
"Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Supposedly Leopard will have UNIX certification according to Apple's
> advertising materials. That will be interesting to see...
I am not sure whether this will work.
They claim that their default filesystem now supports
case sensitive operation (if co
Can you post your dd command line? What are you using for a block size?
How long does it take for a much smaller dd to complete?
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Ola Leifler wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I'm new to OpenSolaris and have just set up my own home server with ZFS. The
>server seems to be working alright except for, what I can tell, extremely poor
>i/o performance. When creating a 4.8Gb test file with dd, I get the following
>iostat:
>
># iostat -d
> cmdk
UNIX admin wrote:
They perverted the nice FreeBSD UNIX by crossing it over with a braindead MacOS
9 and the experimental CMU Mach kernel and created a genetically mutated
monster, that is neither MacOS nor FreeBSD UNIX. However, they advertise it as
FreeBSD.
Well, actually, it started out m
Greetings,
I've recently discovered openSolaris and wish to investigate further; more
precisely, from a beginners perspective and how basic linux knowledge might map
into oS.
I've been reading the project website as well as googling but cannot seem to
find material that covers the basics of op
After editting /boot/grub/menu.lst file & add -B acpi-user-options=2 in "kernel
...", I'm able to boot up the os w/o any more issues. I'm using Intel 945GM
graphics chip set. Pls let me know what do I have to do to improve the
sharpness of my screen.
Thx again,
-Chris
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iostat -cxnz 1 201 gives the following indication:
cpu
us sy wt id
22 78 0 0
extended device statistics
r/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device
0.0 43.00.0 159.5 0.0 0.10.12.3 0 10 c1d0
0.0 43.0
Thanks, Yong. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to
get you set up
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Yong Sun wrote:
I'd like to propose a project about Input Method for OpenSolaris.
The scope of this project would be:
1. To support IIIMF (which is currently the defualt IM framework on Solaris) on
gns writes:
> Project proposal : busybox-ksh93
>
> Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for
> OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros
> and distros(exp LiveCD) with better bootup time and run-time
> performance. This should also be useful in the
You are right on the $$$, after I edit -B acpi-user-options=2 in "kernel "
selection, I'm able to boot up sol to multi user. However, during a reboot, I
see this error msg:
..
hostname: dellsolaris
configuring devices
asy1: UART @ 2f8 scratch register: expected 0x5a, got 0xff
On 4/2/07, gns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Project proposal : busybox-ksh93
+1
Bruno
Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris.
This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD)
with better bootup time and run-time performanc
On 02/04/07, gns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Project proposal : busybox-ksh93
Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris.
This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD)
with better bootup time and run-time performance. This shou
Ian Collins wrote:
sprintf (start_command,"%s", "/opt/SUNWdsee/start-slapd");
(void) system(start_command);
In addition to the other reply, you shouldn't have to use the ghastly
(void)system() just to silence lint warnings.
Well, you *could* examine the retur
Project proposal : busybox-ksh93
Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris.
This will help in making possible small sized distros and distros(exp LiveCD)
with better bootup time and run-time performance. This should also be useful in
the appliance domain.
T
> Supposedly Leopard will have UNIX certification
> according to Apple's
> advertising materials. That will be interesting to
> see...
The thing that *infuriated* me was the moment when I realized that
- there are OS X server, which has *some* of the functionality I needed to
integrate it with m
On 02/04/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With respect to many kernel features, Mac OS X is
> stuck in the early 1990s.
Em, yep! As a Mac OS X (l)user, I can testify that OS X is about as dumb as a
doornail underneath the slick Aqua GUI.
They perverted the nice FreeBSD UNIX by cross
> With respect to many kernel features, Mac OS X is
> stuck in the early 1990s.
Em, yep! As a Mac OS X (l)user, I can testify that OS X is about as dumb as a
doornail underneath the slick Aqua GUI.
They perverted the nice FreeBSD UNIX by crossing it over with a braindead MacOS
9 and the experim
Hi All,
For those who might be interested to see how the Dwarf GUI is
progressing, we have created a binary package (X86) which is a snapshot
of the latest development code.
Package can be downloaded from here:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/files/SUNWgui-install.pkg
To install an
John Brewer wrote:
Is this URL availble
http://fs.central/projects/zfsboot/how_to_netinstall_zfsboot out side on
OpenSolaris site?
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UNIX admin wrote:
Patches are not allowed to deliver upgrades or otherwise upgrade software on
Solaris.
Patches are explicitly not allowed to deliver new functionality.
Upgrades do that.
Patches are supposed to amend existing packages in a hopefully coherent
fashion. Whether that amendment
On 4/2/07, Jason J. W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Solaris is a good OS. Unfortunately, its the last remaining SysV worth
learning. HP-UX is dead, as is IRIXmy Octane2 at home not
withstanding. Let's not make this a "the mountain has to come to
Mohammed" thing. The question is whether
James,
Not yet. But, be careful about what you wish for, because...
-Brian Keith
-Technical Writer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
-El Segundo, CA
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Solaris is a good OS. Unfortunately, its the last remaining SysV worth
learning. HP-UX is dead, as is IRIXmy Octane2 at home not
withstanding. Let's not make this a "the mountain has to come to
Mohammed" thing. The question is whether or not Solaris wants greater
mind share...that is the Linux
Hi Joerg,
No need to get bristled about it. Feel is one of the big reasons folks
don't move off Linux...
-J
On 3/31/07, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Jason J. W. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> A packaging system like apt is exactly what I'd like. Frankly, a
IIRC by default ZFS doesn't do write caching when it is just given a slice of a
disc rather than the whole disc
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I don't know that either would need to buy the other; they don't overlap
very much, so they could perhaps cooperate. They seem to have done
so informally already, insofar as the relevant Sun experts seem to have
provided a bit of assistance to Apple in porting dtrace at least.
Now, if Apple would
a b wrote:
UNIX admin wrote:
So now we have some new binaries, some data files
that have not changed,
some binaries that are the same again.
Patch or Package ?
The documentation clearly states that a patch must never deliver new
functionality.
What documentation is that? It's clearly bug
> It gives the guys here hope that Solaris will move
> faster to adopt
> things like /usr/gnu, and generally adopt the
> usability improvements
> Linux has had. While there are pockets of folks that
> seem to admit the
> usability gap between Linux and Solaris
> toolchains...there seem to be
> a lo
> Hi!
>
> I'm new to OpenSolaris and have just set up my own
> home server with ZFS. The server seems to be working
> alright except for, what I can tell, extremely poor
> i/o performance. When creating a 4.8Gb test file with
> dd, I get the following iostat:
>
> # iostat -d
iostat -cxnz 1 201
Guan Zhi (William) wrote:
PROJECT PROPOSAL - CPK Cryptosystem
I would like to propose a "CPK cryptosystem" project to implement
CPK (Combined Public Key) algorithm on OpenSolaris. CPK is an
identity-based cryptographic algorithm, which means users can send
an encrypted email to anyone only needs
Isn't the 21st century way of starting a service to use SMF in OpenSolaris?
This website walks through a specific example with openldap:
http://lowks.inigo-tech.com/blog/coreblogentry.2007-03-23.0477221442
Once you have the manifest set up, you can use interface libraries in
libscf such as smf_
Joerg Schilling writes:
> BTW: has "pkgadd" already been enhanced to include a tsort(1) like
> feature to automatically install a list of packages in the right order?
CRs 4159916 and 4795539.
(I think the latter should be closed as a dup of the former.)
--
James Carlson, Solaris Networking
PROJECT PROPOSAL - CPK Cryptosystem
I would like to propose a "CPK cryptosystem" project to implement
CPK (Combined Public Key) algorithm on OpenSolaris. CPK is an
identity-based cryptographic algorithm, which means users can send
an encrypted email to anyone only needs to know his email address.
No, I cannot view this URL :-(
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No, I cannot view anything in this URL :-(
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On 3/29/07, Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I. Szczesniak wrote:
> /usr/bin/tr is one of the big problems in Solaris - the behaviour is
> nonstandard and Sun declared long ago that fixes to support multibyte
> locales are off limits because they would break backwards
> compatibility.
Hi!
I'm new to OpenSolaris and have just set up my own home server with ZFS. The
server seems to be working alright except for, what I can tell, extremely poor
i/o performance. When creating a 4.8Gb test file with dd, I get the following
iostat:
# iostat -d
cmdk0 cmdk1 sd0
Hello dear OpenSolaris community,
I am in the process of translating the objectives of the Linux
Professional Institute certifications to OpenSolaris topics.
I want to collect knowledge about OpenSolaris in parallel to Linux
topics so that it will be easier to translate Linux skills to OpenSolar
Soeren wrote:
I just realised that the following limits still apply :
Users can belong to up to 15 secondary groups.
Are there plans to change this in the future ?
That limit only exists if you are using NFS with the default AUTH_SYS
(weak) authentication.
If you configure NFS to use Kerb
Amit Sharma - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore wrote:
I am currently working with MAC OS X server, there we have
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons, can solaris also supports LaunchDaemons
? Do solaris have deamons, if so where exactly they are, and how do we
implement those daemons if need to do so?
On 4/2/07, Vikrant Kumar Choudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please tell me the procedure to checkout the opensolaris code.
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/
--
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/pdurrant
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Soeren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just realised that the following limits still apply :
>
> Users can belong to up to 15 secondary groups.
>
> Are there plans to change this in the future ?
If you did change this, you could no longer mount filesystems
from NFSv3 servers.
Jörg
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EMail:[E
I just realised that the following limits still apply :
Users can belong to up to 15 secondary groups.
Are there plans to change this in the future ?
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Please tell me the procedure to checkout the opensolaris code.
Thanks,
Vikrant
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