Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-28 Thread Michael Stapleton
I'm not sure when things changed, but way back in the OpenSolaris days, I had the root drive in my laptop mirrored to an external USB drive. I never had problems back then. I would do a demonstration where I would remove the USB drive while the laptop was up and running, and then plug the USB submi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-28 Thread Michael Stapleton
based system image. In the end I gave up and just did manual > installs. > > > > On Fri, 3/28/14, Michael Stapleton wrote: > > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS > pool? > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" > Date:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox can't save files

2014-03-18 Thread Michael Stapleton
I have The same problem in ff 26.0 on OI u7 . Running firefox from the command line gives the following error: WORKER ERROR DURING SETUP Error: couldn't find function symbol in library WORKER ERROR DETAIL @resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_unix_allthreads.jsm:72 @resource://gre/modules/osfile/o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

2013-11-23 Thread Michael Stapleton
My understanding is that the time is read from the NVRAM chip only once when booting, then the time is updated by the kernel clock() function by interrupt 10 while running. High interrupt rates could cause the clock interrupt to be missed, slowing time. A lot of serial activity could cause it. I a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox 4.3.x (2!) and oi 151a8? working?

2013-11-18 Thread Michael Stapleton
Works well for me other than not being able to boot iPXE. 4.3 goes to GURU meditation with iPXE. But it does it on all platforms. Windows and Linux. Mike On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 15:43 +0100, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] wrote: > Hi, > > well, i didn't measured anything, that is j

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running VirtualBox headless

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
No problem :-) Infinity uses VirtualBox to do the actual virtualization. Infinity simply is a data/ VM management platform. Mike On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 14:24 -0600, Jan Owoc wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 21:54 +0200, Nikola M. wrote: > > > >> On 06/24/13 02:41 PM, Mi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running VirtualBox headless

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
to use it in any way you like for as long as you like. Suggestions are welcome. Mike On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 21:54 +0200, Nikola M. wrote: > On 06/24/13 02:41 PM, Michael Stapleton wrote: > > check out www.techsologic.com if you are interested. > I see it is closed source propriet

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running VirtualBox headless

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi, I have been working on a little project that might suit your needs. It is in the final testing phase, and not public until now I guess, but should work well for what you are doing. It uses OI, OmniOS of Solaris11 as a storge / VM management server and allows you to run VMs anywhere you like.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Stapleton
I have no idea what the problem is, but it is worth noting that last time I checked, Oracles storage arrays were running Solaris and Comstar. Mike On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 20:36 -0400, Heinrich van Riel wrote: > spoke to soon died again. > Give up. Just posting the result in case someone else run i

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dhcp woes, (was Re: Anyone using OpenIndiana in production?)

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Stapleton
Unless those servers already depend on your storage. Mileage will vary :-) Mike On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 11:45 +, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: > > From: Michael Stapleton [mailto:michael.staple...@techsologic.com] > > > > The Dhcp files can be stored on NFS an

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dhcp woes, (was Re: Anyone using OpenIndiana in production?)

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi, The Dhcp files can be stored on NFS and used by multiple servers. Mike On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 22:17 +, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: > > From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru] > > > > Well, at the time I documented this page, it worked (at oi_151a5 > > timeframe, I believ

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMF retries count

2013-03-26 Thread Michael Stapleton
Klimov wrote: > On 2013-03-26 14:44, Michael Stapleton wrote: > > There are a number of environmental variables used by asadmin, but I did > > not find anything that looked promising. > > > > As a last resort hack, you could you wrap the asadmin command in a > > scrip

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMF retries count

2013-03-26 Thread Michael Stapleton
symptom. Mike On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 14:26 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2013-03-26 14:09, Michael Stapleton wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > > > Your SMF method is likely running asadmin. > > > > Have you tried using the asadmin command directly to stop the domain? > > It

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMF retries count

2013-03-26 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi Jim, Your SMF method is likely running asadmin. Have you tried using the asadmin command directly to stop the domain? It sounds like it could be the default 60 second socket timeout when asadmin attempts to contact glassfish. Network issues? Glassfish already down? Mike On Tue, 2013-03-26 a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xvnc in a zone

2013-03-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
On Solaris 10, I used to configure my zones to run xnest as the X server with the display directed back to the global zone. xhosts in the global zone was configured to allow the zones access. It worked like a charm. I even had a linux branded zone I used for google earth. In that case I used zlog

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SYBA SY-PEX40008

2013-02-12 Thread Michael Stapleton
Found this in the review section: Cons: New cards seems to have a Winbond W39F010 BIOS chipset which is not supported by Silicon Image or Syba -- which means you can *NOT* upgrade this card. The card will more than likely come with a BIOS from 2006, the latest is from 2010 and even then if you wan

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anybody using Trusted JDS/Gnome?

2013-01-05 Thread Michael Stapleton
The Organizations which use TX do not discuss the fact that they use TX. That being said, those same organizations will not be using OI... I personally really like TX. If you want actual security, it is the way to go, but the problem with real security is that it really gets in the way if you want

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing Virtual Box for the first time

2013-01-04 Thread Michael Stapleton
You need to use the full path. #pkgadd -d ./VirtualBox*.pkg Note the ./ Mike On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 19:42 +, peter jones wrote: > I am trying to install virtual box on a new installation 151a7 and have got > myself into difficulties. > > After several attempt to download the new version fro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] auto-scrub and its result

2012-12-28 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hello, One little correction, Shutdown is fine because it is a shell script that calls init. Mike On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 22:47 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2012-12-28 21:45, Brogyányi József wrote: > > Hi Bob > > > > Thanks your answer. I'd like to know what does it mean clean shut down? > > I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-16 Thread Michael Stapleton
FYI, there is a setting that controls how Solaris balances the frames across the links in the aggregation. IP, MAC or round robbin. Mike On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 01:19 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2012-11-17 00:46, Roel_D wrote: > > How about teaming? Is it supported under OI? > > > My memory

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Holding port numbers for servers

2012-11-05 Thread Michael Stapleton
tines and checks (be root or have the permissions via the > RBAC net_privaddr, SMF and/or zone limit_priv props), right? > > Thanks again, > //Jim > > On 2012-11-05 17:11, Michael Stapleton wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > > > TCP/UDP tunable: > > > > #ndd /dev/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Holding port numbers for servers

2012-11-05 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi Jim, TCP/UDP tunable: #ndd /dev/tcp tcp_extra_priv_ports http://www.sean.de/Solaris/soltune.html#portnumbers Mike On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 16:59 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: > Back in the old days when internet authors thought that there was > going to be not much server software, they created

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-23 Thread Michael Stapleton
You could try to set the crypo algorithm to none if you do not need encryption. ssh -c none Might also be worth trying to see if it is ssh that is slowing you down. Mike On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 17:03 -0400, Doug Hughes wrote: > On 10/23/2012 4:13 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > > > > Works pr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
; work. So, vanity names don't really help my case - not without an > intermittent reboot, or some (SMF?) script to vanity-name the correct > interface and continue with dladm setup of the system. > > That's something but not enough to satisfy me ;) > > 2012-10-20 20:08,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
+0400, Jim Klimov wrote: > 2012-10-20 19:05, Michael Stapleton wrote: > > Maybe you could have your zones and the global zone on an etherstub > > through VNICs, > > Then route from the global zones real NIC to the VNIC connected to the > > etherstub. Can you use NAT? IP

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
ported to OI? Mike On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 18:52 +0400, Jim Klimov wrote: > 2012-10-20 18:40, Michael Stapleton wrote: > > I can't believe I'm saying this, but maybe this is a job for NWAM > > profiles? > > > > Intriguing, at least ;) > > I wonder if N

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
e On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 18:22 +0400, Jim Klimov wrote: > I really wonder how DTrace can help here - what should I track? ;) > > 2012-10-20 18:07, Michael Stapleton wrote: > > IPMP does not have to be configured with test addresses. IPMP will uses > > "Link based" by

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
Solaris 11 zonecfg support a NIC configuration called anet. "When such a zone boots, a lower-link (see below) will be automatically determined and a temporary VNIC automati- cally created over that link for the zone. The lower- link and VNIC are deleted when the zone

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi Jim, Sounds to me like DTrace is the tool for you. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/817-6223/chp-intro/index.html It's not something you learn in 5 minutes, but it really is worth the effort. IPMP does not have to be configured with test addresses. IPMP will uses "Link based" by default

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability "Scrubs"

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Stapleton
2-10-13 at 17:02 +0400, Jim Klimov wrote: > 2012-10-13 7:26, Michael Stapleton wrote: > > The VAST majority of data centers are not storing data in storage that > > does checksums to verify data, that is just the reality. Regular backups > > and site replication rule. > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability "Scrubs"

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Stapleton
they haven't been tested very long > 9. Checking your logs for hardware messages should be a daily job > > > > Kind regards, > > The out-side > > Op 13 okt. 2012 om 05:26 heeft Michael Stapleton > het volgende geschreven: > > > I'm not a m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability "Scrubs"

2012-10-12 Thread Michael Stapleton
:36 -0400, Doug Hughes wrote: > So">?}?\, a lot of people have already answered this in various ways. > I'm going to provide a little bit of direct answer and focus to some of > those other answers (and emphasis) > > On 10/12/2012 5:07 PM, Michael Stapleton wrote: >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability "Scrubs"

2012-10-12 Thread Michael Stapleton
ri, 10/12/12, Michael Stapleton > wrote: > > > > > > I'm only writing this because I get the feeling some people > > think scrubs > > are a need. Maybe people associate doing scrubs with > > something like > > doing NTFS defrags? > > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability "Scrubs"

2012-10-12 Thread Michael Stapleton
It is easy to understand that zfs srubs can be useful, But, How often do we scrub or the equivalent of any other file system? UFS? VXFS? NTFS? ... ZFS has scrubs as a feature, but is it a need? I do not think so. Other file systems accept the risk, mostly because they can not really do anything if

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rebuilding man page catalog

2012-10-09 Thread Michael Stapleton
catman -w create the windex database that is used by whatis(1) and the man(1) -f and -k options. No manual reformatting is done. Mike > Hello listmates, > > If may man command does not display some of the pages inc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Swap during install

2012-09-25 Thread Michael Stapleton
As a general rule, If you are scanning you need more RAM, If your applications are complaining you need more swap. Having endless swap just lets applications drive the server into the ground. Solaris uses virtual swap. VMstat sr column == 0 Mike On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 19:41 +0100, Peter Tribbl

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot ping localhost (with NoNet configuration)

2012-09-09 Thread Michael Stapleton
; Thanks, > Ivan > > On 9 September 2012 17:13, Michael Stapleton < > michael.staple...@techsologic.com> wrote: > > > Have you tried to configure pkg/server to listen on 127.0.0.1 ? > > > > # svccfg -s pkg/server setprop pkg/address = net_address: 127.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot ping localhost (with NoNet configuration)

2012-09-09 Thread Michael Stapleton
Have you tried to configure pkg/server to listen on 127.0.0.1 ? # svccfg -s pkg/server setprop pkg/address = net_address: 127.0.0.1 # svcadm refresh pkg/server # svcadm restart pkg/server Mike ?On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 11:25 +0200, Ivan Gualandri wrote: > Thank you yuri, > > unfortunately it doe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] reboot completely

2012-09-07 Thread Michael Stapleton
How about reboot -p -p Reboot to prom. This flag can be used to reboot the sys- tem through firmware without changing the default reboot behavior as denoted by the config/fastreboot_default property setting in system/boot-config service. This opti

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] tip & ttydefs questions

2012-09-03 Thread Michael Stapleton
Have you looked at your /etc/remote settings? Might be something there? Why do you need DOS new line? Is there something on the controller that can be configured? #man remote . . . pr (str) Character that indicates end-of-line on the remote host. The default value is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Stapleton
DAPfs. Configuration files and directories could be mounted on LDAP. just me rambling on :-) Mike On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 12:20 -0400, Magnus wrote: > On Sep 2, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Michael Stapleton wrote: > > > Would not webmin be a good fit? Develop good modules for webmin to > > manage

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Stapleton
I have been developing a virtualization product that runs on OI, It's written in Java but uses ZFS and Comstar so the server side has to be Iluminos/Solaris11 based. For me, development and testing has been much more efficient by running OI on my workstations and laptops. When I'm traveling, I can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Stapleton
Would not webmin be a good fit? Develop good modules for webmin to manage OI with. Mike On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 17:02 +0200, Open Indiana wrote: > It's not that OI doesn't have to have a GUI, it's only that not all settings > have to be set OVER a GUI. > Of course it needs a decent GUI, but that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Synchronizing Sun DHCP servers

2012-08-09 Thread Michael Stapleton
I have not looked at this in a long time, But multiple SUN DHCP servers used to be able to use a common NFS share of their configuration files. Yes the server can be configured to ping(Test) the addresses. Mike michael.staple...@techsologic.com On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 03:51 +0400, Jim Klimov wro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] TCP Reset Packet Problem

2012-08-06 Thread Michael Stapleton
Do you have the VBox client utilities installed? I had seen strange clock problems when the Agent is not installed. Mike On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 12:31 +0800, Patrick Yu wrote: > I was actually trying to say "strange problem of TCP reset packet (or > the the lack of)". :-) > > Anyway, after some m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi, I have been using Solaris only since 2.6 and /home has always been an autofs mount point. What version of Solaris did not have /home as an autofs mount point? Or are you confusing OI with some other OS? Mike . On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 09:51 -0400, Daniel Kjar wrote: > I am sure it has great v

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] in desperate need of fsck.zfs

2012-07-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
Not to be argumentative, but UFS would be toast if you lost the superblock and did not know the location of any backup superblocks. The official answer would be to recover from backup. Sounds to me that what you need is a data recovery program. Maybe Solaris 11 could mount your pool? Mike On

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ipfilter frustrations again

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Stapleton
that what you are supposed to do? > > On 07/18/12 09:58 AM, Michael Stapleton wrote: > > more /lib/svc/method/ipfilter > ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ipfilter frustrations again

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Stapleton
A look at the service script might help isolate the problem more /lib/svc/method/ipfilter There are some interesting comments in it that might be related. Mike On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 09:34 -0400, Daniel Kjar wrote: > Yes, and that does it but then I have to go in and remove all the quick > sta

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount ISO image on boot?

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Stapleton
/&.iso Now when I cd to /mountedISO/xp, the /ISO/xp.iso is mounted. If I cd tp /mountedISO/OI, the /ISO/OI.iso is mounts And so on. Drop a new iso in /ISO and cd to /mountesISO/? to access it. Mike On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 08:09 -0400, Michael Stapleton wrote: > I have a bit more

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount ISO image on boot?

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Stapleton
nd the iso should be automatically mounted. Mike On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 12:25 +0100, Aneurin Price wrote: > On 17 July 2012 17:50, Michael Stapleton > wrote: > > Or a job for autofs. > > > > Check out the man page for automount. > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount ISO image on boot?

2012-07-17 Thread Michael Stapleton
Or a job for autofs. Check out the man page for automount. Mike On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 12:43 -0400, Ray Arachelian wrote: > On 07/17/2012 12:34 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote: > > On 07/17/2012 09:29 AM, Aneurin Price wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> >From the command line, I can mount an iso image u

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to share files between host and VMs?

2012-04-27 Thread Michael Stapleton
Are All the VMs on the same host? How about VBox shared folders? Mike On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 12:01 -0500, Ron Parker wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Travis Lawrie wrote: > > oi, napp-it, esxi, vt-d, compatible hba in it mode, passthrough, cifs > > shares, nfs shares, store vms on vde

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] proxybase and pkg.depotd

2012-03-15 Thread Michael Stapleton
Try using just "http://pkg.sonicle.com"; Mike On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 10:40 +0100, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > Hi, > I'm a bit confused about how to use the proxybase on pkg.depotd. > I have a server running on OI mirror on port 8151, not public. > I want it to be reversed proxy by my public apache

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] etherstub and bridge

2012-02-26 Thread Michael Stapleton
Then you need to route, not bridge. All zones with VNICs connected to the etherstub, Global Zone with VNIC on the etherstub, Global Zone routing between physical NIC and the VNIC. Proper routable IPs all around. Proper routing configured all around (in zones, global zone and the external network.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Michael Stapleton
so there are no correct defaults. Mike On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 01:09 -0300, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: > by that reasoning, if you wanted a primary administrator, you'd assign > the root role and be done with it. > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Michael Stapleton > wrot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Michael Stapleton
One. Michael Stapleton On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:07 -0300, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Matt Connolly > wrote: > > > > On 28/11/2011, at 1:35 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > >> On 11/27/11 04:36, Matt Connolly wrote: > >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory drains away....

2011-11-04 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hello, There is an issue running VirtualBox with ZFS. ZFS will cause fragmentation of memory which is usually not a problem, but due to the nature of how VirtualBox attempt to lock down continuous chunks of RAM, it is a problem for VBox. If you are running VBox and ZFS, cap the ARC cache...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS stalls with oi_151?

2011-10-21 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi, I had similar hard lockups when I accidentally tried to delete a ZFS Volume while doing a ZFS send at the same time. There seems to be a missing lock. In the end I had to ensure that I did not run concurrent zfs commands. Are there any other ZFS commands hung at the same time? Mike On Fr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
Just checking ;-) Night! Mike On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 22:40 +0200, Gernot Wolf wrote: > No. Why? > > Regards, > Gernot Wolf > > > Am 20.10.11 22:33, schrieb Michael Stapleton: > > Is this running in a VM? > > > > Mike > > > > On Thu, 2011-10-

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
Is this running in a VM? Mike On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 22:20 +0200, Gernot Wolf wrote: > Grep output attached. Hopefully this attachement will go through ;) > > Regards, > Gernot Wolf > > > Am 20.10.11 21:25, schrieb Michael Stapleton: > > Attachment is missing...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
I would not worry about it. The messages are being caused by some problem. Lets focus on getting the messages. Debug will increase your load, but not like you are seeing. Mike On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 22:10 +0200, Gernot Wolf wrote: > Ok, here we go: > > gernot@tintenfass:~# mdb -k > Loading modul

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
x skills > >> unfortunately fail me. > >> > >> I've zipped it an attached it to this mail, maybe someone can get > >> anything out of it... > >> > >> Regards, > >> Gernot > >> > >> > >> Am 20.10.11 20:17,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
> > > is there anything suspicious in /var/adm/messages? > > > > Michael > > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 20:07, Michael Stapleton > > wrote: > >> That rules out userland. > >> > >> Sched tells me that it is not a user process. If k

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
+1 Mike On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 11:47 -0700, Rennie Allen wrote: > I'd like to see a run of the script I sent earlier. I don't trust > intrstat (not for any particular reason, other than that I have never used > it)... > > > On 10/20/11 11:33 AM, "Michael Stap

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
--- 5441 93% 93% 0.00 3132 cpu[0] i86_mwait Mike On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 20:37 +0200, Michael Schuster wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 20:33, Michael Stapleton > wrote: > > D

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
/docs/cd/E19253-01/820-5245/ghgoc/index.html > > does it help? > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 20:23, Michael Stapleton > wrote: > > My understanding is that it is not supposed to be a loaded system. We > > want to know what the load is. > > > > > > gernot@

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
24 > > smbd 39 > > nwam-manager 58 > > zpool-rpool 65 > > svc.configd

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
39 >nwam-manager 58 >zpool-rpool 65 >svc.configd 79 >Xorg 82 >sched

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
onals. There has been a bit of back and forth about Linux and OpenIndiana lately, personaly I think we should focus on our strengths. Mike On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 10:27 -0700, Rennie Allen wrote: > Dontchya just love dtrace? > > > On 10/20/11 10:22 AM, "Michael Stapleton"

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi Gernot, You have a high context switch rate. try #dtrace -n 'sched:::off-cpu { @[execname]=count()}' For a few seconds to see if you can get the name of and executable. Mike On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 18:44 +0200, Gernot Wolf wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a machine here at my home running Ope

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
it between > kernel and userland > depending on the OS and configuration. (E.g.: 1G kernel and 3G userland) > > Steve > > - "Michael Stapleton" wrote: > > > While we are talking about 32 | 64 bit processes; > Which one is better? > Faster? >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
While we are talking about 32 | 64 bit processes; Which one is better? Faster? More efficient? Mike On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 13:59 +0100, Deano wrote: > Windows made the shift last server release (2008r2 is x64 only). > > So it's only the OSS server families which support 32bit, likely because >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana in VMWare and usb devices

2011-06-21 Thread Michael Stapleton
both systems, fmadm faulty returns nothing... > Please consider that the same USB CDC modem, is correctly seen by a Linux on > the same VMWare, > using the same ESXi 4.1 procedure. > And...consider that plugging an USB key on the same machine, and making it > available to OI from &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana in VMWare and usb devices

2011-06-21 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi Gabriele, Some more steps to see what's going on. Are we talking to the right driver? Is the driver loaded properly, is the driver configured properly? Following the path from tip to the driver: So your tip error is: open("/dev/cua/0", O_RDWR)Err#6 ENXIO # man -s 2 open : ENXIO

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana in VMWare and usb devices

2011-06-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
Maybe the output of: truss -t stat,open tip /dev/cua/0 will give us something to work with. Mike On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 12:54 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > Hi, I had no trouble with usb devices on native openindiana installations. > Now I installed openindiana inside VMWare4.1 that supports

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User roles and acting as root

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Stapleton
When I need a root terminal, I tend to simply: $sudo sh In a Solaris only environment I advise RBAC , but in a mixed Unix/Linux world, sudo makes more sense. With RBAC and root being a Role, we should "su - " to assume the root role. Mike On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 14:24 -0700, Gregory Youngbloo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backups and snapshots

2011-06-11 Thread Michael Stapleton
Am I reading it wrong or do you mean it drops off at 16MB, not 16 KB? Mike On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 09:44 -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > What was serving the nfs and iscsi? > > -Original Message- > From: Gary [mailto:gdri...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 2:29 AM > To: ope

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] [illumos-Developer] OpenIndiana and illumos, part 2

2010-11-21 Thread Michael Stapleton
Very nice Gabriel. I for one would be happy to share a beer with you or anyone else who is on this list for that matter. I think it's safe to say that anyone one who is on this list is a little special. I think it's also safe to say that we all share a common desire to see this great OS continue

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stablity

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Stapleton
, something is reenabling the service, which in my opinion should not be happening. I have not had a chance to dig into it further. OI is not unstable, we should stop saying so. It is just not proven to be stable, or unstable for that matter. Mike On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 12:08 -0500, Michael

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stablity

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Stapleton
I have been using OI for development and as a production server and have had NO problems stability wise. On my laptop I found that the SMB service is preventing sleeping. If I disable SMB service, power saving works well. But, something is reenabling the service, OI is not unstable, we should stop