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2009-08-11 Thread Sherry Moore
I am sponsoring this fasttrack for Dave Plauger and Steve Sistare. The timer is set for next Tuesday August 18, 2009. Requesting Micro/Patch binding. The one-pager, project specification and man page diffs are available in the materials directory. Sherry Moore Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcas

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2009-08-11 Thread Garrett D'Amore
+1. (I cheated -- I've seen the case materials ahead of time. :-) This enhancement (and the need to perform subsequent actions to decompress the crash dump) probably deserves special mention in the Release Notes. I'd also add, in retrospect, it seems like perhaps mdb ought to have its man pag

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2009-08-12 Thread Alan Hargreaves
It's not completely clear to me from the notes whether or not to uncompress a vmdump.N needs to be done on the machine that generated the vmdump.N, or if it can be done anywhere else. From a support perspective, the latter would be nice. i.e. Customer uploads a vmcore.N to us and we uncompress

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2009-08-12 Thread I. Szczesniak
On 8/12/09, Sherry Moore wrote: > I am sponsoring this fasttrack for Dave Plauger and Steve Sistare. The > timer is set for next Tuesday August 18, 2009. Requesting Micro/Patch > binding. > > The one-pager, project specification and man page diffs are available > in the materials directory.

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2009-08-12 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Sherry Moore wrote: > I am sponsoring this fasttrack for Dave Plauger and Steve Sistare. ?The > timer is set for next Tuesday August 18, 2009. ?Requesting Micro/Patch > binding. > > The one-pager, project specification and man page diffs are available > in the mater

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2009-08-12 Thread I. Szczesniak
On 8/12/09, Alan Hargreaves wrote: > It's not completely clear to me from the notes whether or not to uncompress > a vmdump.N needs to be done on the machine that generated the vmdump.N, or > if it can be done anywhere else. From a support perspective, the latter > would be nice. i.e. Customer upl

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2009-08-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
"I. Szczesniak" wrote: > On 8/12/09, Alan Hargreaves wrote: > > It's not completely clear to me from the notes whether or not to uncompress > > a vmdump.N needs to be done on the machine that generated the vmdump.N, or > > if it can be done anywhere else. From a support perspective, the latter >

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2009-08-12 Thread Darren J Moffat
Sherry Moore wrote: > -z y | n | > Modify the dump configuration to control the operation | > of savecore on reboot. The options are y (yes) to enable | > saving core files in a compressed format, and n (no

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2009-08-13 Thread Dave Plauger
Thanks to everyone who took the time to comment on our proposal. We have replied to each one in private discussion, and now present this summary of our responses. The first 2 items result in some changes or additions to our proposal. Garrett D'Amore wrote: > +1. (I cheated -- I've seen the ca

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2009-08-13 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Dave Plauger wrote: > > > > > Ivek Szczesniak wrote: >> The stdio implementation in libc is among the slowest stdio >> versions out there. If you want to archive better performance you >> should use the stdio implementation in libast or use mmap(2). > This is an interesting implementation suggestio

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2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:23:33PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Dave Plauger wrote: > > > > > > > > > >Ivek Szczesniak wrote: > >>The stdio implementation in libc is among the slowest stdio > >>versions out there. If you want to archive better performance you > >>should use the stdio implementat

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2009-08-14 Thread Roland Mainz
Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Dave Plauger wrote: > > Ivek Szczesniak wrote: > >> The stdio implementation in libc is among the slowest stdio > >> versions out there. If you want to archive better performance you > >> should use the stdio implementation in libast or use mmap(2). > > This is an interesti

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2009-08-13 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Sun UK
Sherry Moore wrote: > compressed file. A compressed dump file must be uncompressed > first, by manually running savecore(1M) a second time, before > it can be used by other tools. Will vmdump.X be removed automatically after executing the uncompression step? Brian -- Brian R

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2009-08-13 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Roland Mainz wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> Dave Plauger wrote: >> >>> Ivek Szczesniak wrote: >>> The stdio implementation in libc is among the slowest stdio versions out there. If you want to archive better performance you should use the stdio implementation in

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2009-08-14 Thread Roland Mainz
Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> Dave Plauger wrote: > >>> Ivek Szczesniak wrote: > The stdio implementation in libc is among the slowest stdio > versions out there. If you want to archive better performance you > should use the stdio imple

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2009-08-14 Thread casper....@sun.com
>> Ivek Szczesniak wrote: >>> The stdio implementation in libc is among the slowest stdio >>> versions out there. If you want to archive better performance you >>> should use the stdio implementation in libast or use mmap(2). >> This is an interesting implementation suggestion, but is outside the

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2009-08-14 Thread Dave Plauger
Thanks again for your comments. Here is a summary of our responses since yesterday. Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Ivek Szczesniak wrote: >> The stdio implementation in libc is among the slowest stdio >> versions out there. If you want to archive better performance you >> should use the stdio implement

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2009-08-17 Thread Sherry Moore
The latest versions of all the documentation are available in the final-materials directory at http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/330/ One pager: fast_crash_dump_1-pager.txt Design Spec:fast_crash_dump_design.txt Man pages: savecore.1m.diffmk.txt dumpa

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2009-08-19 Thread Alan Hargreaves
I have to go back through the specs myself, but as a result of some training I'm in the middle of, I have to ask the question about how this fits in with the Xen "domain dumps" initiated form the hypervisor? Does anything eed to be done to ensure this continues to function as expected? Regards,

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2009-08-19 Thread Sherry Moore
Hi Alan, The project team please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that if the current "domain dumps" mechanism invokes the domain's dump algorithm, nothing additional needs to be done. Thanks, Sherry On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 07:01:49PM +1000, Alan Hargreaves wrote: > I have to go back thro

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2009-08-19 Thread Sherry Moore
This case has been approved by PSARC today. Sherry -- Sherry Moore, Solaris Core Kernel http://blogs.sun.com/sherrym