[osol-discuss] Korea OpenSolaris Day

2006-11-09 Thread Jim Grisanzio
hey ... Here are some pics from OpenSolaris Day in Korea yesterday: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/opensolaris_in_korea_142_photos Check the OpenSolaris World Tour schedule for a date in your area: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/events/techdays/ Also, if you are interested in

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Multi-lingual Technology Glossary

2006-11-09 Thread Young Joo Pintaske
Project Proposal: Multi-lingual Technology Glossary I propose a project on OpenSolaris.org for the development of multilingual technology glossary. By glossary, I mean a collection of terms and the definitions. IMHO, this project brings several advantages to the success of OS.o community. A go

Re: [osol-discuss] Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2006-11-09 Thread Joshua Clulow
Josh Hurst wrote: Could the mail receiver changed to do a weak matching of names, e.g. a mail send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if there is only one match? Why not just add the list names you want to post to to your e-mail client's address book? Posting to the ac

[osol-discuss] Re: Q: Patch Support

2006-11-09 Thread Lee McCreery
ThanksThat is what I thought but wanted to confirm. null This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Q: Patch Support

2006-11-09 Thread Casper . Dik
>I am currently testing OpenSolaris snv_38(aka - Solaris 11, SunOS 5.11). What >is the process for patch support? I have a sunsolve account but at this time I don't see any information on patch sup port. There are no patches for OpenSolaris/Nevada. OpenSolaris is "just the source"; Nevada

[osol-discuss] Q: Patch Support

2006-11-09 Thread Lee McCreery
Hi All, I am currently testing OpenSolaris snv_38(aka - Solaris 11, SunOS 5.11). What is the process for patch support? I have a sunsolve account but at this time I don't see any information on patch support. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Project Proposal - OpenSolaris Migration Tools

2006-11-09 Thread Ron Kleinman
I propose creation of an OpenSolaris Migration Tools project for the Immigrants Community. The goal of this project is to provide a central location for a growing source code repository of generic tools and associated documentation, designed to ease / automate the various tasks involved in port

[osol-discuss] Getting Solaris Management Console working on SXCR build 49

2006-11-09 Thread Andrew Pattison
I recall there were instructions on either this forum or another on this site for how to get SMC working again on recent builds of Solaris Express. Unfortunately my searches haven't turned up anything. Can someone possibly remind me? Thanks Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: WinXP Killed Solaris NIC

2006-11-09 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Perhaps virturalization is the way to go even for desktops. I am not trying to read too much into it, but does the following announcement give any hint that we may see VMWare host for Solaris soon? http://www.eseminarslive.com/article2/0,2144,2028824,00.asp (a virturalization seminar to be joi

[osol-discuss] Extending Solaris 8/9 using OpenSolaris Source

2006-11-09 Thread John P. Sims
Hi, I've been rummaging thru the OpenSolaris source repo and I've found the code for the SATA drivers and the ATA i/o subsystem. Could these be compiled for Solaris 8/9 (x86 and SPARC) to extend the life of the OS's that Sun forgot? Thanks, jsims2359 This message posted from opensolaris.or

Re: [osol-discuss] Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2006-11-09 Thread Josh Hurst
On 11/8/06, Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Josh Hurst wrote: > Why have all lists at opensolaris.org a -discuss ending? Its confusing. They're not, hence opensolaris-code et al. The -discuss lists are intended for general discussion about the bit before the "-", so zf

[osol-discuss] Re: ganglia-3.0.3 and Solaris 10 6/06

2006-11-09 Thread Hugo Hernandez
I have installed correctly rrdtools and in the clients only is running gmond but the problem persist. I only got up some machines but the others are "down". Also, my graphics continue empty. Here are my gmond (same in both, server and clients) and gmetad gmond /* This configuration is as

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: WinXP Killed Solaris NIC

2006-11-09 Thread Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
J?rgen Keil stated: < > After I installed WinXP/SP2 onto an Asus M2N Delux < > machine (with nVidia 570 chipset, including two MCP55 < > NICs) & rebooted back to SX44, the NIC immediately < > stopped working. < < Maybe I've observed something similar. < < Is there a constant stream of "link down

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: WinXP Killed Solaris NIC

2006-11-09 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Usually its not pxe boot first I think.. PXE boot > first and you would see > the pxe sending out DHCP requests, and on the screen > would be like: > DHCP.../ > where the '/' is a dial, /-\|... > But if it is on your box then a workaround woud be > to set the pxe boot below > cdrom and dis

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-09 Thread John Plocher
Precisely what I was thinking. Except that third column is "swapped out processes" and how does one pull them back from the brink of never never land? What ladel reaches into that bucket and when? I don't rightly know. Lets run through a thought experiment/demonstration: Start off with a

[osol-discuss] Re: WinXP Killed Solaris NIC

2006-11-09 Thread Jürgen Keil
> After I installed WinXP/SP2 onto an Asus M2N Delux > machine (with nVidia 570 chipset, including two MCP55 > NICs) & rebooted back to SX44, the NIC immediately > stopped working. Maybe I've observed something similar. Is there a constant stream of "link down" followed by "link up" messages for

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: WinXP Killed Solaris NIC

2006-11-09 Thread Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
W. Wayne Liauh stated: < > Almost. We encountered a similar problem with the < > nvidia nics. < > Theres a fix incoming to nevada any day now, its < > just going thru the < > process of getting in. < < > quick query, whats the boot order on your box ? < > Its not pxe boot then < > cdrom then

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: WinXP Killed Solaris NIC

2006-11-09 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Almost. We encountered a similar problem with the > nvidia nics. > Theres a fix incoming to nevada any day now, its > just going thru the > process of getting in. > quick query, whats the boot order on your box ? > Its not pxe boot then > cdrom then disk ? > Regards, > Sean. > . I suppos

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-09 Thread Darren J Moffat
Dennis Clarke wrote: man what ? bash-3.00$ uname -a SunOS phobos 5.11 snv_49 i86pc i386 i86pc bash-3.00$ cat /etc/release Solaris Nevada snv_49 X86 Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to licen

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: WinXP Killed Solaris NIC

2006-11-09 Thread Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
W. Wayne Liauh stated: < > Is there any way to cause Solaris to also write to < > (i.e., flush) this RAM, similar to what Fedora Core < > are doing? Thanks. < < This problem has been solved in the 2.6.18 Linux kernel (the "forcedeth" module will now reset the NIC cache). This explains why Fedor

[osol-discuss] Re: WinXP Killed Solaris NIC

2006-11-09 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Is there any way to cause Solaris to also write to > (i.e., flush) this RAM, similar to what Fedora Core > are doing? Thanks. This problem has been solved in the 2.6.18 Linux kernel (the "forcedeth" module will now reset the NIC cache). This explains why Fedora Core 6 (2.6.8 kernel) has no p

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On 09/11/2006, at 11:36 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> You see that? I had a maximum of 34 threads in the run queue. >> >> But I have hundreds of tasks to run and they are all low priority >> fixed >> class processes. > > According to Section 2.8 of Solaris Performance and Tools the run > queue va

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-09 Thread Mark Phalan
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:08 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> How does Solaris load up its tasks and know when to say "stop, no more > >> please"? > >> > > >> > > I agree that Solaris will continue to take on the abuse, > > It doesn't seem to keel over as quickly as linux d

[osol-discuss] Re: ganglia-3.0.3 and Solaris 10 6/06

2006-11-09 Thread Brian Hicks
> I don't know exactly what means "This RRD was created > on other architecture" because as I know, I compiled > the rrdtool following the instructions on > http://apstc.sun.com.sg/downloads/s10/README/rrdtool-1 > .2.11-sol10-x86.txt Is there a particular reason why you didn't just use the docs he

[osol-discuss] Re: Asus P5B

2006-11-09 Thread Tom Southerland
I have the same motherboard and would *really* like to get the audio working. I've tried everything mentioned in this thread but no joy :( Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this working? Thanks, Tom This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
> You could posibly throttle the process with /etc/project map entry > and the right schedulinig/dispatch method. man dispadm. > > This was formerly known as Solaris Resource Manager SRM. > found it ... you mean these puppies ? http://www.blastwave.org/man/dispadmin_1M.html http://www.

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> How does Solaris load up its tasks and know when to say "stop, no more >> please"? >> >> > I agree that Solaris will continue to take on the abuse, > It doesn't seem to keel over as quickly as linux distros. > > You could posibly throttle the process with /etc/project ma

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> resources at hand. They do a very fine job of totally protecting me from >> such obscenities as : >> >> :(){ :|:& }; : >> >> When presented to the bash shell that seems to really upset the system. >> IT >> will completely crash a Red Hat Enterprise

Re: [osol-discuss] A question of scheduling.

2006-11-09 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 09/11/2006, at 11:36 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: You see that? I had a maximum of 34 threads in the run queue. But I have hundreds of tasks to run and they are all low priority fixed class processes. According to Section 2.8 of Solaris Performance and Tools the run queue value in vmstat

[osol-discuss] need for alternate version of close() ?

2006-11-09 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Since POSIX (or at any rate, SUSv3) seems to require that close() release all locks held by the process on that file (not just those obtained via that file descriptor), is there a need for an alternate version of close() (call it close2() or close_nounlock() or whatever) that doesn't release the l

[osol-discuss] Re: WinXP Killed Solaris NIC

2006-11-09 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> After I installed WinXP/SP2 onto an Asus M2N Delux > machine (with nVidia 570 chipset, including two MCP55 > NICs) & rebooted back to SX44, the NIC immediately > stopped working. The same problem happend to SuSE > 10.0 & 10.1. > > However, WinXP/SP2 does not affect Fedora Core 6. In > fact, af