[osol-discuss] kaio problem, whether solaris kaio support socket?

2007-02-24 Thread AD
Hi, I am a solaris newbie and want to develop a high performance multi connection (above 1k) socket server on solaris. At beginning I found a topic in docs.sun.com, it tought me that I could use aio and thread pool to finish my work. Then I wrote the basic thread/aio code of my server, but wh

[osol-discuss] Re: kaio problem, whether solaris kaio support socket?

2007-02-24 Thread AD
the book's name is 《solaris internals》 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Request for Community Comment: An

2007-02-24 Thread UNIX admin
> Whether it is technically best (or even good) or not, > Windows is the de facto OS for laptops - it works, > people like it (in some cases a lot) and vote with > their wallets, and that makes it best. I have run > Solaris on a laptop, and it was, frankly, OK. No > better. Lots of reasons, but tha

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread James C. McPherson
John Plocher wrote: It sounds like the answer is probably along the lines of "don't do this right now; come back in 6 to 12 months and ask again..." Sounds reasonable to me. The most consistent feedback (ok, vats of vitriol) that I get about the OpenSolaris download process is two-fold: 1) wh

Re: [osol-discuss] Free S10 CDs?

2007-02-24 Thread Anil Gulecha
The page and link was posted on slashdot. Enough said. Regards Anil On 2/23/07, James C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Enright wrote: > 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 f

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Casper . Dik
>I believe I know some of the answers/reasons for (2), but >it would be *really good* if they could be spelt out on the >dlc.sun.com site as well as sun.com/downloads. If we have a better understanding of the reasons, it might be possible to come up with a, possibly stripped down, "torrentable" r

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
James C. McPherson wrote: John Plocher wrote: It sounds like the answer is probably along the lines of "don't do this right now; come back in 6 to 12 months and ask again..." Sounds reasonable to me. The most consistent feedback (ok, vats of vitriol) that I get about the OpenSolaris download

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread James C. McPherson
Moinak Ghosh wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: John Plocher wrote: It sounds like the answer is probably along the lines of "don't do this right now; come back in 6 to 12 months and ask again..." Sounds reasonable to me. The most consistent feedback (ok, vats of vitriol) that I get about the

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
James C. McPherson wrote: Moinak Ghosh wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: [...] 1) why is there no link to the solitary sparc or x86 dvd iso image? People *really* hate having to start 5 or 6 separate downloads when they have the connection to sustain a single iso download. As a qui

[osol-discuss] Can I use S3 sleep or should I just turn the system on and off?

2007-02-24 Thread Tor
I asked this question in the ZFS forum, but I'm starting to think that this is more of a general question. So here goes: I have a media fileserver running with Windows XP at the moment, but I would like to change to OpenSolaris ZFS because of the safeguards, since I lost a bunch of HD movies a f

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Ananth Shrinivas
Would you have a problem with DVD-only images for SX:CE? Do you have systems you use for OpenSolaris that don't have DVD drives and that you can't netinstall from another system or Live Upgrade from a mounted image? No problem for me. But YES for a bunch of students who are trying to get th

Re: [osol-discuss] Can I use S3 sleep or should I just turn the system on and off?

2007-02-24 Thread Casper . Dik
>But what makes this project stand out from the regular stuff is that I >only use the media file server a couple of hours 3-4 nights a week, >watching movies in the home theater or on the bedroom flatscreen. Or >when copying new stuff to it. So is it possible to make OpenSolaris go >into S3 sleep

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Casper . Dik
>Are the engineering benefits got out of abandoning CD-ROMS greater than >the loss of a few (?) developers, students and users ? This is something we need to discuss; and what alternatives there might be. Driving upward the installer footprint, requiring "live" upgrade and other current pla

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Anil Gulecha
On 2/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Are the engineering benefits got out of abandoning CD-ROMS greater than >the loss of a few (?) developers, students and users ? This is something we need to discuss; and what alternatives there might be. Driving upward the installe

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 2/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Are the engineering benefits got out of abandoning CD-ROMS greater than >the loss of a few (?) developers, students and users ? This is something we need to discuss; and what alternatives there might be. Driving upward the installer

[osol-discuss] Re: kaio problem, whether solaris kaio support socket?

2007-02-24 Thread AD
In appliances forum, I was told that event ports could solve my problem, I will learn more detail. Did I post wrong forum? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Bill Rushmore
Would you have a problem with DVD-only images for SX:CE? Do you have systems you use for OpenSolaris that don't have DVD drives and that you can't netinstall from another system or Live Upgrade from a mounted image? Like others have mentioned, what I think should be done is to have one sm

[osol-discuss] Re: Can I use S3 sleep or should I just turn the system on and off?

2007-02-24 Thread Tor
Thanks! That really answers my question, I will simply use one of the outputs on my Phidgets board to send a 250 ms button press to the computer running the ZFS system. So now my next question will of course be how long startup time such a system will have before the network shares are available

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
James C. McPherson wrote: 2) why don't Sun provide a torrent? Some of the third-party software in Solaris requires certain agreements be made with those who redistribute. BitTorrent could be seen as allowing redistribution by people who haven't agreed to those license terms. If we someday m

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can I use S3 sleep or should I just turn the system on and off?

2007-02-24 Thread Casper . Dik
>Thanks! That really answers my question, I will simply use one of the >outputs on my Phidgets board to send a 250 ms button press to the >computer running the ZFS system. >So now my next question will of course be how long startup time such a >system will have before the network shares are avail

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can I use S3 sleep or should I just turn the system on and off?

2007-02-24 Thread Tor
Thans for the tips! My BIOS is a limiting factor, I know. It takes around 30 seconsd to run through, with the RAID and PCI ATA controller (which I btw need to find out if works with OpenSolaris). As for disabling services I hope there's a tutorial somewhere... I'm old enough to be familiar with

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Ananth Shrinivas wrote: Would you have a problem with DVD-only images for SX:CE? Do you have systems you use for OpenSolaris that don't have DVD drives and that you can't netinstall from another system or Live Upgrade from a mounted image? No problem for me. But YES for a bunch of students

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Moinak Ghosh wrote: Ananth Shrinivas wrote: Would you have a problem with DVD-only images for SX:CE? Do you have systems you use for OpenSolaris that don't have DVD drives and that you can't netinstall from another system or Live Upgrade from a mounted image? No proble

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On 2/24/07, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Ananth Shrinivas wrote: >> >>> Would you have a problem with DVD-only images for SX:CE? Do you have >>> systems you use for OpenSolaris that don't have DVD drives and that >>> you can't netinstall f

[osol-discuss] Re: Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE

2007-02-24 Thread John Brewer
> > On 2/23/07, class="gmail_sendername">Alan Coopersmith < href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">alan.coopersmit > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid > rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; > padding-left: 1ex;"> > Due to some changes planned in the wa

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
Regarding Casper's and Bill's posts about a single-CD + network network based install: This topic came up in install-discuss too, and over there Dave Miner just wrote: Date: Sat Feb 24 09:52:39 2007 From: Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [install-discuss] distributed locations for install

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Eric Boutilier wrote: On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Moinak Ghosh wrote: Ananth Shrinivas wrote: [...] No problem for me. But YES for a bunch of students who are trying to get their feet wet with OpenSolaris. There is already some bad-mouthing about how the Developer Edition needs a truckload of RAM to j

[osol-discuss] Re: Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Given a set of full+OEM packages for a particular architecture, and the cluster definitions and install software of course, what tools (I hope you guys don't do it by hand) are used to build CD and DVD images? (not counting mkisofs or mkfs -F udfs or the like, just what's used to generate the d

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Eric Boutilier wrote: On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Moinak Ghosh wrote: More so when Developer Edition can actually run fine with half the RAM that is required to install it. Moinak -- I think that's 128 MB, correct? Don't you need way more than 128 to effectively run a SX Developer Edition Desktop

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Patrick Georgi
Moinak Ghosh wrote: In that case another alternative is to have the download center generate a shell script on the fly that will have all the wget, md5sum and sundry with URLs valid for the particular login session and proxy settings being detected from the browser's settings. .. And t

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Patrick Georgi
Alan Coopersmith wrote: James C. McPherson wrote: 2) why don't Sun provide a torrent? Some of the third-party software in Solaris requires certain agreements be made with those who redistribute. BitTorrent could be seen as allowing redistribution by people who haven't agreed to those license

[osol-discuss] Re: Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: ... what tools (I hope you guys don't do it by hand) are used to build CD and DVD images? ... then perhaps the community could better participate in the development of more automated means of generating media images, download files, etc for more di

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Ian Collins
Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: > On 2/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> >> Question we can ask ourselves as community are: >> >> - Can OpenSolaris distributions fill the "low-end" void? > > > from the opensolaris web page: "To build OpenSolaris from the source, > y

Re: [osol-discuss] Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE deliveries

2007-02-24 Thread Ian Collins
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Eric Boutilier wrote: > >> On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >>> More so when Developer Edition can actually run fine >>> with half the RAM that is required to install it. >> >> >> Moinak -- I think that's 128 MB, correct? Don't you need way more >> than 128

[osol-discuss] Re: Setting up Environment - expanding command line?

2007-02-24 Thread Josh Howard
Esc twice is a (t)csh'ism. Try tcsh or csh and you'll probably get what you're looking for. If you're using csh, you may need to: set filec ESC This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensola

[osol-discuss] Re: Free S10 CDs?

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Pattison
Are you shipping S10 Update 3 now? Also, how can I get hold of more Solaris 10 logo stickers - Sun part number 819-1362-10. Thanks Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris

[osol-discuss] 25th anniversary of Sun

2007-02-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Hi, to the 10th Sun anniversary, Sun made a big celebration at the Cebit and people like Andy have been present. What's up this year? Will there be a celebration between March 15th and March 21st in Hannover? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL

Re: dtksh status / was: Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-24 Thread Justin Zygmont
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Roland Mainz wrote: Hi! General note: The email below contains some of the old history of dtksh in Solaris and some background why the ksh93-integration project was created. I would prefer to take this as a page in a history book and _not_ as opportunity to come up w

[osol-discuss] Re: Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE

2007-02-24 Thread Shawn Walker
> Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > Eric Boutilier wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > >> > >>> More so when Developer Edition can actually run > fine > >>> with half the RAM that is required to install > it. > >> > >> > >> Moinak -- I think that's 128 MB, correct? Don't > y

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Getting rid of CD images for future SX:CE

2007-02-24 Thread Ian Collins
Shawn Walker wrote: >> >>Let's face it, a development machine should have a >>minimum of 1GB per core. >> >>Ian >> >> > >No, it depends on what you're developing for. If you're developing *with* and >for Java, sure, you need that much memory (only half joking). > > > Oops, I forgot Java, in

Re: dtksh status / was: Re: [osol-discuss] About CDE bugs, errors

2007-02-24 Thread John Plocher
Would Sun adopt that version? I have no clue. As I said... if dtksh cannot be fixed using an upgrade it should be removed ASAP. I'd be interested to play with this, I think this kind of thing can be a really neat and powerful tool, i've used xdialog in the past, which did an ok job, i'm act

[osol-discuss] Re: Getting rid of

2007-02-24 Thread Shawn Walker
> Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > James C. McPherson wrote: > >> 2) why don't Sun provide a torrent? > > > > Some of the third-party software in Solaris > requires certain > > agreements be made with those who redistribute. > BitTorrent > could be seen as allowing redistribution by people > who have

[osol-discuss] Re: Mess

2007-02-24 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Thank you for your frank feedback. > > In order to help us to improve OpenSolaris and > StarSuite please provide > more details what particularly didn't work to your > expectations. You > mentioned missing documentation, can you explain what > type of task you > where about to perform? Where