Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAM based devices as ZIL
For a fast (high ingest rate) system, 4G may not be enough. If your Ram device space is not sufficient to hold all the in-flight Zill blocks, it will fail over, and the Zil will just redirect to your main data pool. This is hard to notice, unless you have an idea of how much data should be flowing to your pool, as you monitor it with zpool iostat. Then you may notice the extra data being written to your data pool. The calculation of how much Zil space you need is not straight forward, because blocks in general are freed in a delayed manner. In other words, it is possible that the some Zil blocks are no longer needed because the transactions they represent already committed, but the blocks have not made it back to "available" status because of the conservative nature of the freed block recycling algo. Rule of thumb, 3 to 5 txg-s worth of ingest, depending on who you ask. Dedup and compression makes Slog sizing harder, because the Zil is neither compressed nor deduped. I would say if you dedup and / or compress, all bets are off. /sG/ - Original Message - Hello, Does anyone have any real world experience using a RAM based device like the DDRdrive X1 as a ZIL on 151a7? At 4GB they seem to be a little small but with some txg commit interval tweaking it looks like it may work. The entire 4GB is saved to NAND in case of a power failure so it seems like a pretty safe solution (entire system is on UPS and generator anyway). Thanks, Wim ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting current generation (EFI) laptops?
I don't have a helpful comment here, but I certainly wish you luck. Sometime 4th quarter, Apple has planned to release their new Mac Pro, aka Mac-mini Pro, aka trashcan Mac. Nothing would make me happier that to purchase one of these for use as a desktop and to run OI on it, then to be able to run OS X server legally in a VM. Jerry On 09/19/13 02:06 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote: Hi all, Is there some magic required to boot OI on laptops with EFI? I did not have any luck with a usb drive in a store yesterday, on their display machines, and since I want to buy one explicitly for OI/Illumos development I really want one that has the basics working out of the box. Of course I'm not 100% sure I created the usb bootable thing correctly, so I'll give that a try over the weekend or something, on yesteryear's hardware, before trying again. If there're recommendations for some models, I'm also all ears. My current requirement list: nvidia, intel cpu, working ethernet. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] RAM based devices as ZIL
Hello, Does anyone have any real world experience using a RAM based device like the DDRdrive X1 as a ZIL on 151a7? At 4GB they seem to be a little small but with some txg commit interval tweaking it looks like it may work. The entire 4GB is saved to NAND in case of a power failure so it seems like a pretty safe solution (entire system is on UPS and generator anyway). Thanks, Wim ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting current generation (EFI) laptops?
Hi all, Is there some magic required to boot OI on laptops with EFI? I did not have any luck with a usb drive in a store yesterday, on their display machines, and since I want to buy one explicitly for OI/Illumos development I really want one that has the basics working out of the box. Of course I'm not 100% sure I created the usb bootable thing correctly, so I'll give that a try over the weekend or something, on yesteryear's hardware, before trying again. If there're recommendations for some models, I'm also all ears. My current requirement list: nvidia, intel cpu, working ethernet. -- Johann I'm not from the internet, I just work there. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] removing the nvidia driver
On 09/19/13 02:30 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Creating Planpkg uninstall: Cannot remove 'pkg://openindiana.org/driver/graphics/nvidia@0.319.17,5.11-0.151.1.8.1:20130825T181904Z' due to the following packages that depend on it: pkg://openindiana.org/x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.8:20130305T151745Z My question: Can anyone suggest a way to remove the nVIDIA driver? pkg uninstall driver/graphics/nvidia xorg-video The xorg-video package is just a group package which depends on all the other packages for the Xorg video drivers, to ensure they're all installed. (A change made in the upstream sources which doesn't seem to be OI's copy yet changed it to use IPS dependencies of type=group, which makes it more of a "recommended, installed by default, but can be removed" dependency than the required type OI currently has in place.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] removing the nvidia driver
Hello, I am trying to remove the pre-installed nVIDIA driver and install a legacy driver.I used to use the following commands $ pfexec beadm list $ pfexec beadm create osol-134-nvidia $ pfexec beadm mount osol-134-nvidia /mnt $ pfexec pkg -R /mnt uninstall -r driver/graphics/nvidia The last command gives the following error message: pkg uninstall: illegal option -- r Usage: pkg uninstall [-nvq] [--no-be-activate] [--no-index] [--no-backup-be | --require-backup-be] [--backup-be-name] [--deny-new-be | --require-new-be] [--be-name name] pkg_fmri_pattern ... When I remove the -r option I get the following error: Creating Planpkg uninstall: Cannot remove 'pkg://openindiana.org/driver/graphics/nvidia@0.319.17,5.11-0.151.1.8.1:20130825T181904Z' due to the following packages that depend on it: pkg://openindiana.org/x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video@0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.8:20130305T151745Z My question: Can anyone suggest a way to remove the nVIDIA driver? Greeting, A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Marvell 88SE91xx installation issues...
From: Marcel Telka > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:36 PM > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Marvell 88SE91xx installation issues... > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 08:48:16AM -0700, John Doe wrote: >> From: Marcel Telka >> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 07:44:49AM -0700, John Doe wrote: >> >> I am trying to instal OI 151a8 (text) on a SuperMicro 0627tr-dtrf > with an >> >> extra SYBA SD-PEX40044 controller (Marvell 88SE91xx). IN RAID1, > the >> > logical >> >> drive is detected by the BIOS but not by OI installer (neither the > physical >> >> drives). In no RAID mode, the 2 drives are detected by the BIOS > but OI >> >> installer only detects one (c3t1d0). A quick google told me there > might be >> >> support problems for this chipset... is that the case? >> > >> > Does "no RAID" means "AHCI"? If so, then (at > least) Marvell >> > 88SE9128 should be >> > supported in 151a8. >> > >> > https://www.illumos.org/issues/3815 >> > >> > What exactly is your Marvell controller? >> > What happens when you run 'cfgadm -lv'? >> > What is in /var/adm/messages? >> >> Yes, AHCI >> http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=1134 >> It says: Marvell 88SE9128 >> >> The drives in question are 2 PLEXTORS for the rpool. >> Aside, there are 6 seagates (detected first) for data... > > I see: MARVELL VIRTUALL. I'd say your 2nd disk is connected to that port. > Unfortunatelly, I had no disk connected there during my tests on 88SE9128 few > months back so I didn't do any testing beyond the detection of MARVELL > VIRTUALL > on the port. To be honest, I've no idea what exactly MARVELL VIRTUALL is and > what needs to be done to make your 2nd disk working. It is possible that some > custom driver needs to be written for MARVELL VIRTUALL... Ok, thank you for the info. In the (very limited) controller BIOS, I see the disks with respective slots 0,1 and IDs 0,8. FYI, I tried linux (CentOS) and it detects the 2 disks. And, since as usual this server needs to be up yesterday, we'll have to go with linux (bye bye zfs)... Thx for your help, JD ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
