Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox and thunderbird 13 for openindiana

2012-06-11 Thread Rennie Allen
Fantastic job! Thanks! On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Paolo Marcheschi wrote: > Hi > here they are : > > > http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/13.0/contrib/so > laris_pkgadd/ > > http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/13.0/contri > b/solaris_pk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] bmc-watchdog SMF dependencies

2012-06-26 Thread Rennie Allen
I don't see what is wrong with option #1. Just leave the watchdog running until the kernel shuts down the computer. There is no reason the watchdog should ever stop (that way it offers protection continuously until the system is otherwise shut off). On 6/26/12 1:26 PM, "Jim Klimov" wrote: >He

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Options for a root filesystem

2012-06-26 Thread Rennie Allen
+1 what Jay says. Also, I don't think that dropping to mdb is all that painful. It is one of the best debuggers around. On 6/26/12 4:09 PM, "Jay Heyl" wrote: >On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Vishwas Durai >wrote: > >> Hello all, >> I'm wondering what options are available for root filesyste

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2012-08-14 Thread Rennie Allen
I think that the openindiana list *should* have its own linkedin profile :-) I'd give it a recommendation. "OpenIndiana List is not only an efficient and concise list, but also an inspiring one. OpenIndiana List did an exceptional job on a recent question I had. OpenIndiana List is a careful, pr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3737 days of uptime

2013-03-20 Thread Rennie Allen
I worked for QNX back in the early 2000's. At that time QNX had a fairly complete design for performing kernel upgrades on a live system. Because QNX is a microkernel, this was doable. I can't get too deep into the details, but essentially it required a set of permanently reserved memory pages f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] weird C++ problem

2013-04-01 Thread Rennie Allen
Have you tried including rather than string.h ? On 4/1/13 11:29 AM, "Apostolos Syropoulos" wrote: >Hello everybody, > >I was trying to compile a program and one file failed to compile >with g++ 4.7.2 but it compiles with CC: Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_i386 >2011/11/16. > >The following little program

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Install OpenIndiana in an UFS root

2013-09-09 Thread Rennie Allen
Yup, that definitely sounds like Amazonian FUD alrightŠ On 9/9/13 12:32 PM, "Richard Elling" wrote: >On Sep 9, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Simon Toedt wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Peter Tribble >>wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> topic says it all. I want to install OpenIndiana on a UFS filesyste

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BAD WD drives - defective by design?

2011-08-29 Thread Rennie Allen
I think Rich was suggesting using 4k sectors on the file system, not asking what the drives sector size was. On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > All drives have 512b sector sizes, WD FASS (blacks) and WD EADS (greens) > both use plain old 512 sectors. > > - Orig

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BAD WD drives - defective by design?

2011-08-29 Thread Rennie Allen
Oh I see, I thought you were misusing the term sector and so I went along with your terminology. I realize this is a hardware/driver thing, but by increasing the blocksize, it may change the number of interrupts per operation (or otherwise change the temporal characteristics with which the driver

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

2011-10-20 Thread Rennie Allen
Dontchya just love dtrace? On 10/20/11 10:22 AM, "Michael Stapleton" wrote: >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 18:4

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

2011-10-20 Thread Rennie Allen
Sched is the scheduler itself. How long did you let this run? If only for a couple of seconds, then that number is high, but not ridiculous for a loaded system, so I think that this output rules out a high context switch rate. Try this command to see if some process is making an excessive numb

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

2011-10-20 Thread Rennie Allen
Try the following script, which will identify any drivers with high interrupt load - #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s sdt:::interrupt-start { self->ts = vtimestamp; } sdt:::interrupt-complete /self->ts && arg0 != 0/ { this->devi = (struct dev_info *)arg0; self->name = thi

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

2011-10-20 Thread Rennie Allen
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9682 104 >>36941 0 >> > 54 46 >> > 0 0 0 4157744 1059788 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9769 105 >>37208 0 >> > 54 46 >> > 0 0 0 4157728 1059772 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9741 159 >>37104 0 >> > 5

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

2011-10-20 Thread Rennie Allen
Profiling is AFAIK statistical, so it might not show the correct number. Certainly the count of interrupts does not appear high, but if the handler is spending a long time in the interrupt... The script I sent measures the time spent in the handler (intrstat might do this as well, but I just don'

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

2011-10-20 Thread Rennie Allen
ci3 63145 > uhci0 64232 > uhci4 103429 > ehci1 107272 > ehci0 108445 > uhci2 112589 >e1000g0 160024 > > Regards, > Gernot Wolf > > > Am 20.10.11 20:22, schrieb Renni

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Oracle Solaris on x86 going to be killed?

2012-01-06 Thread Rennie Allen
Goes nuts? That would imply that the starting point wasn't currently "nuts" wouldn't it? ;-) On 1/6/12 4:37 PM, "Gabriel de la Cruz" wrote: >Well, if someone would make use of those files that Oracle shared in >bittorrent, we could make S11 upgreadable to OI, so no one would loose any >server

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Q: What is status of dtrace on /hipster ?

2016-09-16 Thread Rennie Allen
I have to say, this is the silliest recommendation ever. A language without the ability to dtrace it is a language that I won't bother using. On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: > I would like to just say that whenever I am trying to compile a >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Closed-Source Binary Blobs?

2019-07-02 Thread Rennie Allen
There's no such thing as closed source binary blobs, see: Ghidra. Everything is opensource technically (whether it is opensource in the legal sense is a different kettle of fish). On Tue, Jul 2, 2019, 9:34 AM Previn Edward wrote: > Dear OpenIndiana Mailing List, > > Would someone be able to con

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A rant

2021-01-29 Thread Rennie Allen
QNX is so far ahead of any other operating system, the fact that it hasn't changed yet n the last 20 years is basically a good thing as it has finally stabilised (after having had two completely breaking rewrites from scratch in the prior 20 years). Only now are operating systems like fuchsia and