Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project

2010-08-03 Thread Jonathan Adams
Hmm ... a "spork" ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/03/illumos_opensolaris_spork/ ... I like it, I'm glad because it means there is a better looking future after build 134. At the end of the day I'd love it if Oracle just started talking and carried on developing the project as a commun

Re: [osol-discuss] how to measure in kernel how much time one operation takes

2008-04-18 Thread Jonathan Adams
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Re: [osol-discuss] Epoll implementation

2008-03-12 Thread Jonathan Adams
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Re: [osol-discuss] GCC compiler installation on Solaris 10

2006-08-30 Thread Jonathan Adams
usr/sfw/bin/gcc. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] umem_cache semantics

2006-08-09 Thread Jonathan Adams
which would prevent memory from being returned to the common pool once it was used for that cache. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] java process sucking up CPU time?

2006-08-04 Thread Jonathan Adams
e know what this process does, and if I really need it? > > ciao, erich > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > ___ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Ker

Re: [osol-discuss] What does prstat report for CPU usage percent ?

2006-06-21 Thread Jonathan Adams
CPU bound. You should look at the prstat -m information for your process; it will let you know precisely where its time is being spent. (the results are not decayed) Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] pthread_cancel() does NOT work with several threads

2006-05-31 Thread Jonathan Adams
x */ return (NULL); } > int main() > { > int ii; > pthread_t tid[3]; > pthread_setcanceltype(PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS, NULL); Again, you *really* don't want to do this. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] B37 fails to build with "Text relocation remains against symbol " in /usr/lib/64/values-xpg6.o

2006-05-25 Thread Jonathan Adams
/opt/onbld/bin/i386/cw -_cc -xO3 -xarch=amd64 > > /opt/SUNWspro/SOS10/bin/cc -xO3 -xarch=amd64 > > debug: > debug: file=/opt/SUNWspro/SOS10/prod/lib/amd64/values-xa.o [ ET_REL ] > debug: Isn't this: 6359912 /usr/lib/values-(star).o files s

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: where to start?

2006-05-24 Thread Jonathan Adams
ould imply a "Minor" release; 5.10 is Solaris 10, and 5.11 will (presumably; marketing has futzed with this before) be Solaris 11. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Offtopic: Solaris C API to clear a terminal screen...

2006-05-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:33:43PM -0700, Jonathan Adams wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:00:32AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > This is slightly offtopic but due lack of a better list for this I am > > asking this

Re: [osol-discuss] Offtopic: Solaris C API to clear a terminal screen...

2006-05-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:38:05AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Jonathan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > you might avoid *some* of the expense (since, as of Solaris 10, system() > > uses vfork(), even on multi-threaded processes. So the "duplicating >

Re: [osol-discuss] Offtopic: Solaris C API to clear a terminal screen...

2006-05-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
nce, as of Solaris 10, system() uses vfork(), even on multi-threaded processes. So the "duplicating the address space just to tear it down at exec() time" cost is gone. On the other hand, you're still stopping all of the threads in the process until the forked thread reaches exe

Re: [osol-discuss] RFE: Relax "cstyle" limit of 80 characters in OS/Net...

2006-04-06 Thread Jonathan Adams
(dp == ¬able) { printf( "Manufacturer is unknown because of the orange forum embargo.\n" "As the orange forum likes to get money for recent information,\n" "it may be that this media does not use illegal manufacturer coding.\n"); } and still be cstyle-compliant. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: Relax "cstyle" limit of 80 characters in OS/Net...

2006-04-02 Thread Jonathan Adams
PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily > ___ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneable tosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:59:46AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > Eric Lowe wrote: > > TANSTAAFL. > > "TANSTAAFL" = ? http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/t/TANSTAAFL.html There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Ada

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

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
ome amount of filesystem muckings-around; the fact that the minimum unit of modification octupled causes any number of performance and implementation headaches. Let alone assumptions about filesystem blocksize and PAGESIZE being close to each other. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: Namespaces for #pragma ? / was: Re: "-xstrconst" patch / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Footprint: Compilingkernel+tools with "-xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all"

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
rrible portability issue and people rarely use #ifdef > to protect these statements correctly. Is there someone at Sun who's > interested to discuss solutions and carry them forth to the ISO-C > working group ? As an aside, note that dtrace's D (which can pr

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
ump the acpi tables). 6230033 prtdiag should be implemented for Solaris x86 6313638 SMBIOS Support for Solaris both integrated in snv_23, and both should be available in Solaris 10 Update 2. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development

Re: [osol-discuss] Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RHwins!

2006-03-20 Thread Jonathan Adams
max_ncpu * ERPT_DATA_SZ) These are for fatal events, possibly on multiple CPUs. > And they are all preallocated? Sounds like a bug to me. Well, if max_ncpus was just properly set to the actual maximum, as Andrei's follow-on is done correctly, they wouldn't be allocating all this extra spa

Re: [osol-discuss] Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RHwins!

2006-03-20 Thread Jonathan Adams
ch smaller. > > So what exactly uses this 256KB per CPU? kmem cpu caches are about 20k/cpu (64 bytes/cpu/cache * ~300 caches * max_ncpu) FMA looks like it's about 100k/cpu (ERPT_MAX_ERRS * max_ncpu * ERPT_DATA_SZ) Cheers, - jonathan > Casper > _

Re: [osol-discuss] Footprint: Compiling kernel+tools with "-xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all"

2006-03-17 Thread Jonathan Adams
the text segment. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] libumem project proposal

2006-03-16 Thread Jonathan Adams
de chapter on libumem out for comment. The project is intended to be on-going. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How to use(solarisspecific) CAS Instruction (or)atomic Function in C

2006-03-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
(or greater) atomic.h patch as well as in Solaris Express / OpenSolaris. Cheers, - jonathan > Rama > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Jonath

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How to use(solarisspecific) CAS Instruction (or)atomic Function in C pr

2006-03-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
s/ors/ands of 16-64 byte quantities. Update 1 has the full range, including CAS. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] metadata and write sequence

2006-03-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
/access time updates; those are asynchronous, and would have to happen for both ufs and vxfs. > while metadata is updated only for each extent written for vxfs. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discu

Re: [request-sponsor] Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing Code

2006-03-08 Thread Jonathan Adams
ple feel it would be useful (in whatever context -- > inside or outside Sun). And you could mark them "Fix Failed" if they got backed out. I personally think this would be a good thing to do. - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread Jonathan Adams
rt needed for ZFS > just putback on friday. There's still a pile of other work that needs to be completed before ZFS-root is ready for prime time. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/system tuneable to setthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-07 Thread Jonathan Adams
you have to do complicated 64k-page-to-8k-page emulation logic for those "legacy" apps. In the end, the increase in complexity outweighed the benefits, and the project was put aside. (I wasn't on the project, but I did have some interactions with the project team

Re: [osol-discuss] ARC Community Proposal

2006-01-10 Thread Jonathan Adams
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Re: [osol-discuss] Re: questions about moving to ZFS

2005-12-01 Thread Jonathan Adams
usage (there's a maximum wastage of the size of the snapshot). It's very useful when you want a lot of mostly similar filesystems. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] troubles with booting Windows

2005-11-30 Thread Jonathan Adams
artition table. > > And another quick question: > I want to mount partitions from old Solaris on startup of system, not to type > every time > #mount /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 /export/home2 > Where should I add this filesystem so it would be mounted on every > startup?/etc/mntta

Re: [osol-discuss] How to create /var/sadm/* info for OpenSolaris

2005-11-27 Thread Jonathan Adams
d into Solaris. (That's one of the side-effects of cpiotranslate, which fixes up the owner/group data to match the packages -- it also removes files that aren't in any package) Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS fun

2005-11-16 Thread Jonathan Adams
nderstanding is that that is the desired end functionality; currently, you can't do it. > First impressions are that ZFS is excellent and I am looking forward > to trying more and more of the features later on, congratulations to > eve

Re: [osol-discuss] ZFS fun

2005-11-16 Thread Jonathan Adams
ed end functionality; currently, you can't do it. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] fsck seems to have a few new features in build 26

2005-11-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:06:06PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 11/15/05, Jonathan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 04:49:31PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > On 11/15/05, Sean Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: [osol-discuss] fsck seems to have a few new features in build 26

2005-11-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
sure that's supported. You could try to write-lock it using "lockfs -fw /", but I'm not sure that's well-advised. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Obscure umem semantics

2005-08-23 Thread Jonathan Adams
to observe the state of a cache, ie to > determine the current number of unconstructed/constructed/allocated > buffers? There's no programmatic interface to do so, but the mdb(1) dcmds can give some of that information (allocated/total; unconstructed v.s. constructed is not calle

Re: [osol-discuss] Obscure umem semantics

2005-08-21 Thread Jonathan Adams
overly long post, but these umem facilities seem > pretty powerfull of used correctly. As far as I can tell right now, > it is unclear exactly how to do so. Not a problem; if you have any suggestions on how to make the manpage more clear, I'll be happy to get it changed. Cheers,