Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Zone API

2010-02-03 Thread David McDaniel (damcdani)
Did you try bigadmin? -Original Message- From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tan Loc Pham Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 6:11 AM To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [osol-discuss] Solaris Zone

Re: [osol-discuss] Increase swap space when its mirrored

2008-02-18 Thread David McDaniel (damcdani)
So if one of the disks goes south you dont send the system off into the weeds because /tmp is blown up, backing store for stacks/heap/other anon disappear, etc. Spanning swap across two spindles instead of mirroring swap on an erstwhile HA system just introduces two single points of failure. --

[osol-discuss] Rationale for 64K mmap alignment?

2007-07-30 Thread David McDaniel
Wondering if anyone knows the reason mmap always returns space 64K aligned on 32 bit sparc apps. If many small files are mmap'd, lots of address space gets eaten up. Also, can it be changed via a knob anywhere? Thanks -d This message posted from opensolaris.org

[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] Re: Proper syntax for enabling libumem noabort?

2006-09-20 Thread David McDaniel
Yup, UMEM_DEBUG exported. It wasnt clear to me whether it took a value or not, but the comments suggested to me it might: 50 * 51 * If the item is valid, item_flag_target != NULL, and: 52 * type is not CLEARFLAG, then (*item_flag_target) |= item_flag_value 53 *

[osol-discuss] Proper syntax for enabling libumem noabort?

2006-09-19 Thread David McDaniel
Anyone know the proper incantation for setting the noabort flag to avoid cores on recoverable errors when using libumem? I've tried UMEM_DEBUG=noabort=1 /* which seems like the right thing AFAIK */ UMEM_DEBUG=noabort=0 UMEM_DEBUG=noabort But in all cases umem_err_recoverable calls umem_do_abo

[osol-discuss] Can a core dump occur without calling user installed signal handler?

2006-09-14 Thread David McDaniel
Does anyone know of any pathway by which a userland process can core dump, apparently due to SEGV, *without* calling the user installed signal handler? I've been puzzling out a problem wherein the only conclusion I can reach is that this process'd parent reports that the child died due to sig

RE: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-09 Thread David McDaniel \(damcdani\)
However, many of the <4M binaries also dynamically link with many libraries which individually are also <4M. But in the in the aggregate they are >4M and thrash the 512x8K itlb beyond recognition. I did a little experiment with this (posted on performance:discuss) wherein I took such an app and a

RE: [osol-discuss] Obscure umem semantics

2005-08-22 Thread David McDaniel \(damcdani\)
MAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 1:37 AM > To: David McDaniel (damcdani) > Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Obscure umem semantics > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:46:40PM -0700, David McDaniel wrote: > > This might be better

RE: [osol-discuss] Conference Presence

2005-08-18 Thread David McDaniel \(damcdani\)
Its really none of my business, but it seems to me you should at least consider attaching an OpenSolaris presence to some of the traditional telecom shows where Sun is often present in other guises, like Supercomm. This might be an opportunity to to win back some otherwise eroding mindshare to th

[osol-discuss] Obscure umem semantics

2005-08-17 Thread David McDaniel
This might be better suited to another board, but if so I dont know which one. In any case the dialog might be valuable to the community at large. To wit: I dont fully grasp the semantics of umem_cache_alloc, et al. Some use cases or examples would really help. A few of the obscure (to me) poin

RE: [osol-discuss] What types of training would you need or want forOpenSolaris?

2005-08-16 Thread David McDaniel \(damcdani\)
Certainly in my mind some classes (or perhaps just some blueprints with non-trivial examples) on how to deal with the introduction of smf. For ISV's who have ostensibly portable products, ie Solaris and Linux, migrating from traditional rc scripts can be a challenge. -d > -Original Message-