Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Dan Price wrote: > On Fri 13 Feb 2009 at 03:32PM, Jason King wrote: >> >> I would like the think that, all the (summarized) 'never use any >> kstats -- those are private' emails I'm getting off list, as well as >> past reactions I've seen seem to suggest otherwise

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:28:21PM -0600, Jason King wrote: [...] > So we're left with a bunch of stats, some of which are quite useful, > but all are classified as unstable, no apparent way of being able to > selectively upgrade the stability of select stats (short of a > potentially large separat

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Dan Price wrote: > On Fri 13 Feb 2009 at 04:28PM, Jason King wrote: >> getting it working), me and Steven Stallion were told it will _never_ >> be putback into any Opensolaris consolidation, even if it were perfect >> in every possible way (not that I'd claim it wo

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 13 Feb 2009 at 04:28PM, Jason King wrote: > getting it working), me and Steven Stallion were told it will _never_ > be putback into any Opensolaris consolidation, even if it were perfect > in every possible way (not that I'd claim it would ever approach that) > solely because of one group wi

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Dan Price wrote: > On Fri 13 Feb 2009 at 03:32PM, Jason King wrote: >> >> I would like the think that, all the (summarized) 'never use any >> kstats -- those are private' emails I'm getting off list, as well as >> past reactions I've seen seem to suggest otherwise

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Richard Lowe wrote: > Jason King writes: > >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:09:52PM +, Peter Tribble wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems >>

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:53:18PM -0500, Richard Lowe wrote: > Jason King writes: > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems > > wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:09:52PM +, Peter Tribble wrote: > >>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Mi

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-13 Thread David Collier-Brown
Hey, hornswoggle David J. Brown into hiring me back and I'll do ABI migration and mutation for everybody. Joking aside, there's a classic discussion of managing both stability and controlled change at http://multicians.org/stachour.html Paul Stachour's "Observations about Software Maintenance"

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Richard Lowe
Jason King writes: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems > wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:09:52PM +, Peter Tribble wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > No. Stop. Do not assume any data is b

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 13 Feb 2009 at 03:32PM, Jason King wrote: > > I would like the think that, all the (summarized) 'never use any > kstats -- those are private' emails I'm getting off list, as well as > past reactions I've seen seem to suggest otherwise (not that I'm > really going to let it stop things -- I'

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:09:52PM +, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems > wrote: > > > > No. Stop. Do not assume any data is better than no data. Wrong or > > misleading > > data is *worse* than no data. > > Well, that's not *entirel

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:09:52PM +, Peter Tribble wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems >> wrote: >> > >> > No. Stop. Do not assume any data is better than no data. Wrong or

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-13 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:07:29PM -0600, Jason King wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:48 PM, David Collier-Brown wrote: > > I'll see you on the list (;-)) > > > > Back when I was full-time (I'm a contractor > > who does capacity planning), I was part of the > > ABI team, who managed the stable

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-13 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:48 PM, David Collier-Brown wrote: > I'll see you on the list (;-)) > > Back when I was full-time (I'm a contractor > who does capacity planning), I was part of the > ABI team, who managed the stable/unstable > interfaces, so as not to suffer "dll hell" > like some other

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-13 Thread David Collier-Brown
I'll see you on the list (;-)) Back when I was full-time (I'm a contractor who does capacity planning), I was part of the ABI team, who managed the stable/unstable interfaces, so as not to suffer "dll hell" like some other folks we all know. To oversimplify, "private" interfaces which chang

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris - proposal

2009-02-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems wrote: > > No. Stop. Do not assume any data is better than no data. Wrong or > misleading > data is *worse* than no data. Well, that's not *entirely* true. Senior management isn't satisfied with no data, and prefer simplistic

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-13 Thread Peter Tribble
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Jason King wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:09 PM, David Collier-Brown wrote: >> Brendan Gregg wrote: >>> No. Stop. Do not assume any data is better than no data. Wrong >>> or misleading data is *worse* than no data. >> >> I agree most emphatically. Most m

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-13 Thread Jason King
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:09 PM, David Collier-Brown wrote: > Brendan Gregg wrote: >> No. Stop. Do not assume any data is better than no data. Wrong >> or misleading data is *worse* than no data. > > I agree most emphatically. Most metrics recorded by programs > are those needed by the autho

Re: [perf-discuss] Improved Performance MIB for OpenSolaris

2009-02-13 Thread David Collier-Brown
Brendan Gregg wrote: > No. Stop. Do not assume any data is better than no data. Wrong > or misleading data is *worse* than no data. I agree most emphatically. Most metrics recorded by programs are those needed by the authors of the programs. All too few are the ones we need to *use* the pro

Re: [perf-discuss] Server hangs when creating 200 zones with rootpath on zfs

2009-02-13 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:05 AM, serarien wrote: > Good morning, > First of all, excuse my bad english, I'm French. > > So, I want to use 200 whole-root zones with a mysql 5.1.30 community server > on each one. > I wrote a perl script to create them automatically. > This is what the scripts does:

[perf-discuss] Server hangs when creating 200 zones with rootpath on zfs

2009-02-13 Thread serarien
Good morning, First of all, excuse my bad english, I'm French. So, I want to use 200 whole-root zones with a mysql 5.1.30 community server on each one. I wrote a perl script to create them automatically. This is what the scripts does: 1.detach a "template" zone 2.snapshot the zfs file system of