[osol-discuss] speedup 2-8x of tar xf on ZFS

2007-02-22 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Hi, now, as I'm back to Germany,I've got access to my machine at home with ZFS, so I could test my binary patch for multi-threading with tar on a ZFS filesystems. Results look like this: .tar, small files (e.g. gcc source tree), speedup: x8 .tar.gz, small files (gcc sources tree), speedup x4

[osol-discuss] Joyent is Hiring: OpenSolaris Savvy Jr SysAdmin's Needed!

2007-02-22 Thread Ben Rockwood
Want to get paid to work with OpenSolaris all day? Joyent is constantly pushing at the limits of what OpenSolaris can do. We're running Nevada in a cutting edge environment; this job isn't for the squeamish! Applicants have to be able to think on their feet and be prepared for a write the

[osol-discuss] Reading/posting via threaded web interface and NNTP (Was: SPAM-Attack via Jive..)

2007-02-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-20 21:41]: I still think feeding the lists to a dedicated news server could be the cleanest approach to providing a way to read the messages by list in a threaded manner. Either the groups could be

Re: [osol-discuss] Reading/posting via threaded web interface and NNTP (Was: SPAM-Attack via Jive..)

2007-02-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
... In fact Gmane already is carrying some opensolaris lists (I don't know the who/when/why)... Here's a link to them: http://dir.gmane.org/search.php?match=opensolaris ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: RAID-Z: Just how big a performance hit does 32-bit give me?

2007-02-22 Thread Austin
I'm currently getting !41 MB/s from /dev/zero writing to the filesystem, and ~50 MB/s from the filesystem to /dev/null. It's an array of 4 IDE 7200RPM drives running at ATA100, so theoretically, I should be able to get up to 100 MB/sec per drive, correct? I'm also wondering if the speed

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RAID-Z: Just how big a performance hit does 32-bit give me?

2007-02-22 Thread James Dickens
On 2/22/07, Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently getting !41 MB/s from /dev/zero writing to the filesystem, and ~50 MB/s from the filesystem to /dev/null. It's an array of 4 IDE 7200RPM drives running at ATA100, so theoretically, I should be able to get up to 100 MB/sec per drive,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RAID-Z: Just how big a performance hit does 32-bit give me?

2007-02-22 Thread Bart Smaalders
Austin wrote: I'm currently getting !41 MB/s from /dev/zero writing to the filesystem, and ~50 MB/s from the filesystem to /dev/null. It's an array of 4 IDE 7200RPM drives running at ATA100, so theoretically, I should be able to get up to 100 MB/sec per drive, correct? Your disk

[osol-discuss] Re: RAID-Z: Just how big a performance hit does 32-bit give me?

2007-02-22 Thread Austin
I guess I'll just have to do a bit of experimentation. Logically though if the 7200RPM drives have a typical output of 50 MB/sec, an ATA100 controller should be able to accomidate writing to both drives on the same channel at full speed though I would think. I should be able to throw a spare

Re: [osol-discuss] Reading/posting via threaded web interface and NNTP (Was: SPAM-Attack via Jive..)

2007-02-22 Thread Mike Kupfer
Eric == Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric ... In fact Gmane already is carrying some opensolaris lists (I Eric don't know the who/when/why)... There should be some discussion of this in the opensolaris-discuss archives for July 2005 (gmane and OpenSolaris). My understanding is

[osol-discuss] Re: What code construct would create a Relative relocation record

2007-02-22 Thread Rod Evans
Go visit: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=24771tstart=0 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=24565tstart=0 Might you all be involved in the same discussion? -- Rod. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Reading/posting via threaded web interface and NNTP (Was: SPAM-Attack via Jive..)

2007-02-22 Thread Stephen Lau
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:25:37AM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: Eric == Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric ... In fact Gmane already is carrying some opensolaris lists (I Eric don't know the who/when/why)... There should be some discussion of this in the opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RAID-Z: Just how big a performance hit does 32-bit give me?

2007-02-22 Thread Bart Smaalders
Austin wrote: I guess I'll just have to do a bit of experimentation. Logically though if the 7200RPM drives have a typical output of 50 MB/sec, an ATA100 controller should be able to accomidate writing to both drives on the same channel at full speed though I would think. I should be able

Re: [osol-discuss] Reading/posting via threaded web interface and NNTP (Was: SPAM-Attack via Jive..)

2007-02-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Mike Kupfer wrote: Eric == Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric ... In fact Gmane already is carrying some opensolaris lists (I Eric don't know the who/when/why)... There should be some discussion of this in the opensolaris-discuss archives for July 2005 (gmane

Re: [osol-discuss] Reading/posting via threaded web interface and NNTP (Was: SPAM-Attack via Jive..)

2007-02-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Stephen Lau wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:25:37AM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: Eric == Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric ... In fact Gmane already is carrying some opensolaris lists (I Eric don't know the who/when/why)... There should be some discussion of

[osol-discuss] Overview (rollup) of recent activity on opensolaris-discuss

2007-02-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
For background on what this is, see: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=24416#24416 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=25200#25200 = opensolaris-discuss 02/01 - 02/15 = Size of all threads

[osol-discuss] Links to rollup reports

2007-02-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
Here are links to the latest batch of overview reports (rollups). You can also receive them by subscribing to the RSS feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/bootblog/oss:rollups or bookmarking the URL: http://del.icio.us/bootblog/oss:rollups cab-discuss 02/01 - 02/15

[osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Laszlo (Laca) Peter
Hi all, So the /usr/gnu proposal[1] was approved by PSARC. Obviously, the reason for defining /usr/gnu wasn't theoretical -- it allows moving GNU packages from /usr/sfw to /usr or /usr/gnu and it helps us integrating more GNU packages into Solaris. We have already seen the first few putbacks

ShellsUtilities community ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Roland Mainz
Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: So the /usr/gnu proposal[1] was approved by PSARC. Obviously, the reason for defining /usr/gnu wasn't theoretical -- it allows moving GNU packages from /usr/sfw to /usr or /usr/gnu and it helps us integrating more GNU packages into Solaris. We have already seen

Re: [osol-discuss] Reading/posting via threaded web interface andNNTP (Was: SPAM-Attack via Jive..)

2007-02-22 Thread Roland Mainz
Mike Kupfer wrote: Eric == Eric Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric ... In fact Gmane already is carrying some opensolaris lists (I Eric don't know the who/when/why)... There should be some discussion of this in the opensolaris-discuss archives for July 2005 (gmane and

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread James C. McPherson
Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: So the /usr/gnu proposal[1] was approved by PSARC. Obviously, the reason for defining /usr/gnu wasn't theoretical -- it allows moving GNU packages from /usr/sfw to /usr or /usr/gnu and it helps us integrating more GNU packages into Solaris. We have already seen the

[osol-discuss] Re: /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Laca, That's terrific that it made it out of PSARC. This would make it a lot easier to move a lot of our infrastructure off Gentoo and onto OpenSolaris. Building a community/repository around spec files rocks too! Anything that brings the concept of ebuilds closer to being possible on

Re: ShellsUtilities community ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Laszlo (Laca) Peter
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 03:39 +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: So the /usr/gnu proposal[1] was approved by PSARC. Obviously, the reason for defining /usr/gnu wasn't theoretical -- it allows moving GNU packages from /usr/sfw to /usr or /usr/gnu and it helps us integrating more GNU packages into

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Bart Smaalders
Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: Hi all, So the /usr/gnu proposal[1] was approved by PSARC. And there was much rejoicing! Obviously, the reason for defining /usr/gnu wasn't theoretical -- it allows moving GNU packages from /usr/sfw to /usr or /usr/gnu and it helps us integrating more GNU

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: Hi all, So the /usr/gnu proposal[1] was approved by PSARC. Obviously, the reason for defining /usr/gnu wasn't theoretical -- it allows moving GNU packages from /usr/sfw to /usr or /usr/gnu and it helps us integrating more GNU packages into

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Eric Boutilier wrote: Note however that if this project doesn't cover Solaris 10, it can't potentially supersede the CCD because the CCD (/opt/sfw) is a component of Solaris 10 and delivers to Solaris 10 updates. Isn't anything for Solaris 10 outside the scope of OpenSolaris anyway? Replacing

[osol-discuss] Re: Follow-up on Dell D820 (was Re: Many problems on a Dell

2007-02-22 Thread Manuel
Hi Dana, In effect I am getting system panics after installing solaris 10 u3 on a dell d820. The only way to get the system to boot was disabling ACPI completely (0x8 or 0x4 didn't work). Is there any workaround for this now? Thanks, Max This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: Note however that if this project doesn't cover Solaris 10, it can't potentially supersede the CCD because the CCD (/opt/sfw) is a component of Solaris 10 and delivers to Solaris 10 updates. Isn't anything for Solaris 10

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Laszlo (Laca) Peter
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 19:08 -0800, Bart Smaalders wrote: The JDS team (well, Dermot ;) is working on adding more packages (mostly the tools required for building JDS). Obviously, it's easier for us to deliver these through the JDS consolidation. However, they really don't belong there.

[osol-discuss] Nominating James McPherson for OGB

2007-02-22 Thread Joshua Clulow
Greetings, I would like to nominate jmcp (James McPherson) as a candidate for the Governing Board. As a core contributor for the SOSUG (Sydney, AU) Usergroup I've met James several times and frequently converse with him via IRC. He's hard working, knowledgeable, and always happy to help --

[osol-discuss] Re: [cab-discuss] Nominating James McPherson for OGB

2007-02-22 Thread James C. McPherson
Joshua Clulow wrote: Greetings, I would like to nominate jmcp (James McPherson) as a candidate for the Governing Board. As a core contributor for the SOSUG (Sydney, AU) Usergroup I've met James several times and frequently converse with him via IRC. He's hard working, knowledgeable, and

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: So the /usr/gnu proposal[1] was approved by PSARC. Obviously, the reason for defining /usr/gnu wasn't theoretical -- it allows moving GNU packages from /usr/sfw to /usr or /usr/gnu and it helps us I'm nor sure I see the point of exchanging

Re: [osol-discuss] Nominating James McPherson for OGB

2007-02-22 Thread Sherry Moore
A huge +1 from me (would that count as +2? :) ). James has been extremely enthusiastic and effective in promoting Solaris in various forums. He is always among the first to try the cutting edge technology in Solaris, to provide feedback and suggestions, and to share what he knows with the other

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
It's not a workload issue. We can handle more packages (as long as our nightly build completes in 24 hours ;) But it doesn't seem logical. Currently there is no rule to determine where a package belongs. It's a matter of who integrated it initially. Ideally, desktop should be desktop, X

[osol-discuss] Free S10 CDs?

2007-02-22 Thread Eric Enright
Hi all, Several weeks (months?) ago Sun had some sort of online deal where they would ship free S10 and Sun Studio 11 CDs out for free. A few weeks ago a friend of mine was complaining about not receiving them, and just now another friend of mine is mentioning not receiving them. Is there any

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Dual booting an Ultra 10

2007-02-22 Thread Justin Zygmont
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: Frank Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Justin Zygmont wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, James Carlson wrote: Andrew Pattison writes: So am I right in saying that there is no easy way of getting a grub-like boot menu on SPARC?

Re: [osol-discuss] /usr/gnu project?

2007-02-22 Thread John Plocher
Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: /usr belongs to the OpenSolaris name space right now. How would this work wrt ARC, etc? That's a good point. I don't think it's feasible to go to ARC each time we integrate a package into the proposed repository. ARC would soon have a huge backlog. Perhaps we

Re: [osol-discuss] Free S10 CDs?

2007-02-22 Thread Kuldip Oberoi
Here's the link: http://sun.com/solaris/freemedia Basically, it was so successful, we quickly hit a supply issue as well. It has taken longer than we would have like to be addressed (internal funding, manufacturing, etc.) and we could have handled the communication better, but my

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Dual booting an Ultra 10

2007-02-22 Thread UNIX admin
Silo is unmaintained and it needs to be patched to know the sector numbers of the second stage boot. This is why SILO does not work with mkisofs while a standard sparc boot is directly supported by mkisofs longer than SILO exists. I did try to help the SILO people in former times to create