Giuseppe Maxia wrote: > Hi, all. > I have a peculiar problem and I need some guidance to submit a proper bug > report. > I work for Sun,in the Database Group, as MySQL Community team lead. I was > testing a sandbox application (https://launchpad.net/mysql-sandbox) under > OpenSolaris. and I noticed that a test that a Linux box with 512 MB passes > without trouble, puts Opensolaris on its knees, even after increasing the > memory to 1 GB. > > Description: > This test is a Perl application that launches 22 concurrent instances of the > MySQL database server, and then brings them down, reporting on the number of > pass vs fail. > I ran this test on OpenSolaris (VMWare virtual machine) with 512 MB of RAM. > It crashed with a message saying "fork: not enough space", and then the whole > box became unresponsive, even from root access. > I increased the memory to 1 GB, and again the operating system refused to > launch more instances after 18 instances, signaling that fork was out of > space. > The trouble comes when comparing the above behavior with a Linux Ubuntu > virtual machine, with 512 MB of RAM. It passes the test, with all 22 > instances, without errors.
Hi Giuseppe, Just a shot in the dark, but have you configured the same amount of swap in the two installations? -- Kristian > > I wanted do report the bug, but being quite inexperienced with OpenSolaris, I > am stuck at the long list of category/subcategory found at > http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa. > > Can anyone help to categorize this report? > > Thanks > > Giuseppe > _______________________________________________ > databases-discuss mailing list > databases-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/databases-discuss
