Re: [osol-discuss] High system cpu time

2007-07-24 Thread Gino
Any suggestion? Now we have two CPU at 100% SYS time and other two at 70% SYS time .. lockstat -kIW -D 20 sleep 30 Profiling interrupt: 11652 events in 30.036 seconds (388 events/sec) Count indv cuml rcnt nsec Hottest CPU+PILCaller

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread UNIX admin
Hopefully by the time Solaris 11 will be released, it will be a professional distribution which has had attention spent not only on the technical aspects by the interface in which administrators interact with the operating system. If it's a 'professional' distribution, then we don't need

Re: [osol-discuss] overlap partition

2007-07-24 Thread UNIX admin
Hi All, I am new to this community, recently joined to learn Solaris 10. Please clarify me about overlap partition in disk format utility, means what we can do on slice 2. I mounted it and created some markable size file but it is not reflecting file or size. In what way have to use this

Re: [osol-discuss] overlap partition

2007-07-24 Thread UNIX admin
In what way have to use this one(s2). s2 can be used to back up entire disks, or all slices devoted to Solaris simultaneously, where s2 doesn't occupy the entire disk. This is usually performed with the `dd` utility. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] High system cpu time

2007-07-24 Thread jennyfer
My toshiba notebook now runs slowly,it is terrible. the following web is my website,pls have a look: http://www.cntradecity.com/product.asp?Classid=4Nclassid=110 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Dave Miner wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Dave Miner wrote: ... See: http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/indiana_installer_prototype This news (which I think is *awesome*, by the way) makes me wonder now more than ever which install clusters do/don't

[osol-discuss] SATA problems on chipset VIA VT8237R (epia EK)

2007-07-24 Thread alessioc
i'm trying to install osol b68 but it seems it does not recognize the hdd attached to the sata controller of my motherboard (chipset via VT8237R). is there any way to know what's going wrong? is there any way to know if this chipset is supported? This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 03:53 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: Hopefully by the time Solaris 11 will be released, it will be a professional distribution which has had attention spent not only on the technical aspects by the interface in which administrators interact with the operating system.

Re: [osol-discuss] High system cpu time

2007-07-24 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 05:00 -0700, jennyfer wrote: My toshiba notebook now runs slowly,it is terrible. the following web is my website,pls have a look: http://www.cntradecity.com/product.asp?Classid=4Nclassid=110 And. Probably best to give us a little information on the specs etc.

Re: [osol-discuss] SATA problems on chipset VIA VT8237R (epia EK)

2007-07-24 Thread Nico Sabbi
alessioc wrote: i'm trying to install osol b68 but it seems it does not recognize the hdd attached to the sata controller of my motherboard (chipset via VT8237R). is there any way to know what's going wrong? is there any way to know if this chipset is supported? maybe the raid mode is not

Re: [osol-discuss] SATA problems on chipset VIA VT8237R (epia EK)

2007-07-24 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 07:24 -0700, alessioc wrote: i'm trying to install osol b68 but it seems it does not recognize the hdd attached to the sata controller of my motherboard (chipset via VT8237R). is there any way to know what's going wrong? is there any way to know if this chipset is

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread UNIX admin
And you know, the world doesn't revolve around over paid UNIX admins with craniums that reach to the ceilings. The vast majority of companies out there are small to medium size, less than 100 people with servers being maintained by someone who has an IT qualification from their local

Re: [osol-discuss] SATA problems on chipset VIA VT8237R (epia EK)

2007-07-24 Thread alessioc
it worked by tweaked the bios settings, thank you (changed sata mode from raid to ide) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread Calum Benson
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 03:53 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: The only thing is getting into the people's skulls that they *don't* need a desktop, and that the network is the computer. People who have regular, reliable access to a secure network may not need a desktop, but for now, the rest of us do...

[osol-discuss] Keyboard problems.

2007-07-24 Thread Mike DeMarco
I have just finished installing Build 68 on a new MSI M675 laptop. During the install the keyboard was working fine. After the reboot the keyboard does not respond at all I have tried configuring XSun and Xorg but can not get any key to work after the grub screen. Strange that now I can not get

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread Brian Utterback
Calum Benson wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 03:53 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: The only thing is getting into the people's skulls that they *don't* need a desktop, and that the network is the computer. People who have regular, reliable access to a secure network may not need a desktop, but

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
Making it easy to install and maintain lowers the bar, ups the sales by Sun in both hardware and software - all benefit from this. Microsoft didn't grab a huge marketshare because of Bills sparkling personality - I can bloody well assure you of that! If the bar needs to be

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread UNIX admin
People who have regular, reliable access to a secure network may not need a desktop, but for now, the rest of us do... You are quite right - some problems are still present and need to be solved before thin clients can become mainstream - like the problem of a portable thin client. Right

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread Brandon Hume
The only thing is getting into the people's skulls that they *don't* need a desktop, and that the network is the computer. You need to seriously re-examine that network is the computer chant, and how well it jives with the world you've described... where you've robbed the average person of

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread UNIX admin
Plenty but comes unwilling to pay the huge amount - IT is a cost centre, it generates no money directly for the company. I've witnessed a lot os such companies that regarded IT as just a cost center. Most of them are either long history by now, going bankrupt or otherwise struggling, all

[osol-discuss] problem installing nv-68

2007-07-24 Thread Bill Moloney
I have x86 nv-64 installed on a dell precision 670 (installed from downloaded ISOs), but I cannot install the nv-68 release When I boot the first nv-68 ISO and select Solaris Express from the menu, it begins an extraction from the CD (listing a row of dots .), splashes the disclaimer and

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread UNIX admin
You need to seriously re-examine that network is the computer chant, and how well it jives with the world you've described... where you've robbed the average person of their computing power -- and their choice -- simply because they're not an expert with the OS *at hand*. The network is the

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* UNIX admin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You need to seriously re-examine that network is the computer chant, and how well it jives with the world you've described... where you've robbed the average person of their computing power -- and their choice -- simply because they're not an

Re: [osol-discuss] problem installing nv-68

2007-07-24 Thread Mike DeMarco
Just a stupid thing to check, are you sure you did not download the sparc version? I This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread Brandon Hume
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:35 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: Well, why must it be on the Internet? Can't we have a server that sits in a living room or in a closet or in the basement, which stores all our data on encrypted disks, centrally, secured by ZFS? Who builds and installs that server in the

[osol-discuss] default route on 2nd NIC?

2007-07-24 Thread Anne
Hi All I have a solaris 10 box on SPARC that is multi-homed. Two nics are on separate subnets. How would I set a default route on each NIC? Is that even possible? I know how to setup the default route on the server, but then my 2nd NIC in the other subnet doesn't work. Can I assign a default

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris,

2007-07-24 Thread MC
Why are we still slaving to the notion that just because something is a server, it *must* be on the internet? Well, why must it be on the Internet? Can't we have a server that sits in a living room or in a closet or in the basement, which stores all our data on encrypted disks, centrally,

Re: [osol-discuss] default route on 2nd NIC?

2007-07-24 Thread Nicholas Senedzuk
Just list each default route in the /etc/defaultrouter file, 1 ip address per line. You may also want to read the defaultrouter man page. On 7/24/07, Anne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have a solaris 10 box on SPARC that is multi-homed. Two nics are on separate subnets. How would I set

Re: [osol-discuss] problem installing nv-68

2007-07-24 Thread Sean Sprague
Mike, Just a stupid thing to check, are you sure you did not download the sparc version? Bill's CD does actually boot, and apparently displays a menu and stuff; so can't be this problem. Regards... Sean. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] High kernel cpu time

2007-07-24 Thread Gino
Hi, we are still facing the same problem. After some testing we found it is ZFS related. Now we have a 4 Opteron server with 2 CPU at 99% SYS time. # lockstat -kIW -D 20 sleep 30 Profiling interrupt: 11652 events in 30.029 seconds (388 events/sec) Count indv cuml rcnt nsec Hottest CPU+PIL

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread Dave Miner
Eric Boutilier wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Dave Miner wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Dave Miner wrote: ... See: http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/indiana_installer_prototype This news (which I think is *awesome*, by the way) makes me wonder now more than ever which

Re: [osol-discuss] default route on 2nd NIC?

2007-07-24 Thread Anne
Thank you _ From: Nicholas Senedzuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:54 PM To: Anne Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] default route on 2nd NIC? Just list each default route in the /etc/defaultrouter file, 1 ip address per line.

Re: [osol-discuss] problem installing nv-68

2007-07-24 Thread Bill Moloney
It turns out that I can actually install nv-68 in a VMware virtual machine from the ISO Cds, so it looks like there's some issue with my dell precision 670 that causes the system to panic when the device discovery phase begins ... this does not happen with my nv-63 installation (sorry, it was

[osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Derek Cicero
There was a major power outage in SF that affected our servers. Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] High system cpu time

2007-07-24 Thread Eric Saxe
Can you provide your lockstat output again, this time with the -s flag... Something like: lockstat -kIW -s 20 -D 20 sleep 2 The stack traces might help... Thanks, -Eric ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
There was a major power outage in SF that affected our servers. three little letters : U P S better yet : A P C get some :-) Dennis ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Minimum System Requirements

2007-07-24 Thread Andrew Myers
Hi, What are the minimum system requirements for Solaris Express Developer edition, (default install with Gnome desktop)? I have an older PC that I would like to put it on but it only has 256Meg RAM. Would it work? This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Minimum System Requirements

2007-07-24 Thread Aubrey Li
Here is a check tools: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html Which can tell you whether your system is likely to be able to run the Solaris 256Meg RAM should be OK. Regards, -Aubrey Intel OpenSolaris Team. On 7/25/07, Andrew Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What are the

Re: [osol-discuss] Minimum System Requirements

2007-07-24 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* Aubrey Li ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Here is a check tools: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html Which can tell you whether your system is likely to be able to run the Solaris 256Meg RAM should be OK. Keep in mind, you'll have to do a text install. Pick Solaris Express

Re: [osol-discuss] SATA problems on chipset VIA VT8237R (epia EK)

2007-07-24 Thread Lu, Baolu
OpenSolaris does support SATA controllers, but there are some comments. I am not familiar with the VT8237R chipset, but I can share with you my experiences on Intel chipsets. On the Intel server platform, the IO Bridge (south bridge) integrates the SATA controller. The SATA controller can be

Re: [osol-discuss] Minimum System Requirements

2007-07-24 Thread MC
I think there is something about the current installer needing more RAM than the OS itself. If I recall correctly, that number is something more than 256mb. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] REMINDER: FROSUG July Meeting Announcement (7/26/2007)

2007-07-24 Thread Jim Walker
This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, July 26, 2007. Nick Solter will give a presentation on Open High Availability Cluster, which was recently released on opensolaris.org. In addition, we will be giving an OpenSolaris Update. !! FREE OpenSolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Ché Kristo
Wow, I was under the impression it only affected residential areas... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
Wow, I was under the impression it only affected residential areas... I'm guessing netflix, craigslist, typepad and livejournal are not among your favorite sites :) -Artem ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Manoj Joseph
Derek Cicero wrote: There was a major power outage in SF that affected our servers. Discussion search does not seem to be working. For example: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/search.jspa?objID=f80q=ZFS -Manoj ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Rob Giltrap
Dennis Clarke wrote: There was a major power outage in SF that affected our servers. three little letters : U P S better yet : A P C get some :-) It should have been part of their B C P ;-) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
Wow, I was under the impression it only affected residential areas... I'm guessing netflix, craigslist, typepad and livejournal are not among your favorite sites :) geez .. I think I looked at one of them once .. maybe. as for residential areas, I have 6000 VA worth of UPS here at my desk

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:57 -0700, Glenn Lagasse wrote: * UNIX admin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You need to seriously re-examine that network is the computer chant, and how well it jives with the world you've described... where you've robbed the average person of their computing power

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
geez .. I think I looked at one of them once .. maybe. as for residential areas, I have 6000 VA worth of UPS here at my desk ( at home ) and even my X-Box has a UPS. Never lose a game to power outage! The Warlock: Why did you bring a cop to my command center? John McClane: It's a basement!

Re: [osol-discuss] SATA problems on chipset VIA VT8237R (epia EK)

2007-07-24 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 09:56 +0800, Lu, Baolu wrote: OpenSolaris does support SATA controllers, but there are some comments. I am not familiar with the VT8237R chipset, but I can share with you my experiences on Intel chipsets. On the Intel server platform, the IO Bridge (south bridge)

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
geez .. I think I looked at one of them once .. maybe. as for residential areas, I have 6000 VA worth of UPS here at my desk ( at home ) and even my X-Box has a UPS. Never lose a game to power outage! The Warlock: Why did you bring a cop to my command center? John McClane: It's a

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Dennis Clarke wrote: There was a major power outage in SF that affected our servers. three little letters : U P S better yet : A P C get some :-) Heh, sometimes those three letters can themselves give up on your face:

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Stephen Lau
Dennis Clarke wrote: There was a major power outage in SF that affected our servers. three little letters : U P S better yet : A P C get some :-) The whole reason we host in a datacentre is that the datacentre is supposed to take care of things like UPSs and generators.

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dennis Clarke wrote: There was a major power outage in SF that affected our servers. three little letters : U P S better yet : A P C get some :-) Heh, sometimes those three letters can themselves give up on your face:

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Hugh McIntyre
Ché Kristo wrote: Wow, I was under the impression it only affected residential areas... More details at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/24/web_site_outages/ Particularly sad is the comment in the article that: Redenvelope continued to be unavailable, the same day PR monkeys

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
Ché Kristo wrote: Wow, I was under the impression it only affected residential areas... More details at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/24/web_site_outages/ Particularly sad is the comment in the article that: Redenvelope continued to be unavailable, the same day PR monkeys

Re: [osol-discuss] maxtor onetouch III 1TB USB storage snv_b64a

2007-07-24 Thread chaohong guo
It seems that this device cannot handle SCSI modesense commands well. Sometimes, it returns OK, while in the other time, it returns failure. I don't understand why this happens. -minskey Stefan Parvu 写道: Hi, Can you find a system without SCSI disk and try your disk on that system? The

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris.org is back up

2007-07-24 Thread Ché Kristo
correct! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Nightlybuild - Powermanagement issues

2007-07-24 Thread Kaiwai Gardiner
Ok, I installed he latest current of ON, and the following occurs: bash-3.00$ dmesg | grep PS Jul 25 17:48:36 rachmaninov cpudrv: [ID 684953 kern.notice] NOTICE: cpu_acpi: _PSS package not found. Jul 25 17:48:36 rachmaninov cpudrv: [ID 616227 kern.warning] WARNING: cpu_acpi: error parsing _PSS