There are obviously some problems running Sage on Solaris. A quick check on my own machine shows a lot of resources may be used. Also since 'top' is not installed, and if one installs it, then it does not work well, Sage on Solaris must IMHO be considered 'experimental' for now.
Once we publicly announce the URL for a Sage server running under Solaris, it will not reflect too well on either Sage or Solaris if people get server crashes or other problems. As such, I'd propose that something like: "Warning: The Sage port to Solaris is quite recent, and not fully debugged, so do not be surprised by error messages, but please do report them." is added on the notebook. I'd also suggest, that since this is experimental, it might be a good idea to show the output of 'uname -a' so people know what hardware Sage is running on. (In fact, perhaps it's just a computer geeks mind, but I think in general that would be a good idea, but especially on Solaris). If I start Mathematica on Solaris, it immediately tells me I'm running in 64-bit mode on Solaris, and whether it's x86 or SPARC. Mathematica 7.0 for Sun Solaris x86 (64-bit) Copyright 1988-2009 Wolfram Research, Inc. In[1]:= or Mathematica 7.0 for Sun Solaris SPARC (64-bit) Copyright 1988-2009 Wolfram Research, Inc. In[1]:= Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
