Re: [osol-discuss] sudden huge slowdown

2008-10-01 Thread Matt Harrison
Bryan Allen wrote: How full is your pool? Service starts crawling as ZFS has to spin the platters to search for free blocks in disparate parts of the disks. (Perhaps someone else can explain that better, but that's my understanding as to why full pool = slow pool.) I try to keep my pools

Re: [osol-discuss] sudden huge slowdown

2008-10-01 Thread Ian Collins
Matt Harrison wrote: Bryan Allen wrote: How full is your pool? Service starts crawling as ZFS has to spin the platters to search for free blocks in disparate parts of the disks. (Perhaps someone else can explain that better, but that's my understanding as to why full pool = slow pool.)

Re: [osol-discuss] sudden huge slowdown

2008-10-01 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Matt, Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 10:52:57 PM, you wrote: MH Everything was working fine on our snv_97 fileserver then one day our MH transfers had slowed to a crawl. I originally thought it was CIFS only MH but after some tests I can see that its all network transfers including MH scp

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Input Method Project

2008-10-01 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
- As from some feedback my understanding is SCIM is better platform for Chinese input. What I don't understand is why iiim is unusable for Chinese users or is a blocker to adopt any new Chinese user. It's here for a years and I haven't notice Solaris Chinese input is not usable or is such

Re: [osol-discuss] migrators question: virtual terminals?

2008-10-01 Thread Kristian Rink
Robert Thurlow schrieb: [...] Screen is wonderful - I use it every day. But it's really a different solution to a different problem than virtual consoles, which would let me switch from a full graphical environment to a text console and then back again. Indeed, that's the point. I'm also

Re: [osol-discuss] sudden huge slowdown

2008-10-01 Thread Matt Harrison
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Matt, Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 10:52:57 PM, you wrote: MH Everything was working fine on our snv_97 fileserver then one day our MH transfers had slowed to a crawl. I originally thought it was CIFS only MH but after some tests I can see that its all

Re: [osol-discuss] Choices Staying up to date

2008-10-01 Thread Paul van Berlo
W.r.t. updating, can someone perhaps answer the following questions for me? OpenSolaris 2008.05 2008.11 are released versions, i.e. they can be considered stable? All the builds before, between and after, are these considered 'unstable', i.e. in the sense of how Linux distributions and FreeBSD

[osol-discuss] PXE GRUB menu.lst

2008-10-01 Thread Alain Kaeslin
Hi, I've set up a PXE Server with all the required components (DHCP, tftp, etc.). Currently my GRUB menu is located in /tftpboot/menu.lst.01001B243DE753. For the client with the MAC address 01:00:1B:24:3D:E7:53 everything works fine. All other clients are hanging at the grub shell because they

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris in 2001

2008-10-01 Thread Alexander R. Eremin
Wish to move per 2001? Now it is funny... http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=opensolarishl=enbtnG=Search -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] PXE GRUB menu.lst

2008-10-01 Thread Alex
Just plain vanilla 'menu.lst' should work. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] PXE GRUB menu.lst

2008-10-01 Thread Alain Kaeslin
Hi astade2 Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately in my case a file called menu.lst does not work. Alain -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] PXE GRUB menu.lst

2008-10-01 Thread Christian Kaiser
Alain Kaeslin wrote: Hi, I've set up a PXE Server with all the required components (DHCP, tftp, etc.). Currently my GRUB menu is located in /tftpboot/menu.lst.01001B243DE753. For the client with the MAC address 01:00:1B:24:3D:E7:53 everything works fine. All other clients are hanging at

Re: [osol-discuss] Choices Staying up to date

2008-10-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Paul van Berlo wrote: OpenSolaris 2008.05 2008.11 are released versions, i.e. they can be considered stable? 2008.11 is still under development and not yet had a stable release. It's planned for release in November 2008 (the version is a release date too). All the builds before, between

Re: [osol-discuss] Choices Staying up to date

2008-10-01 Thread Mike Meyer
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:24:45 PDT Michael Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's OpenSolaris because you want ZFS and want package updates or software management, you could opt for either OpenSolaris 2008.05 or 2008.11. You can find the links here: http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ SXCE

Re: [osol-discuss] sudden huge slowdown

2008-10-01 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Matt, Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 10:52:57 PM, you wrote: MH Everything was working fine on our snv_97 fileserver then one day our MH transfers had slowed to a crawl. I originally thought it was CIFS only MH but after some tests I can see

Re: [osol-discuss] sudden huge slowdown

2008-10-01 Thread James Carlson
Matt Harrison writes: Actually this could be related. About a week ago, the onboard NICs started playing up and would drop connection about 70% of the time. The only solution after talking with the list was to put in a PCI NIC, and it's possible that it might have some issues (it's really

Re: [osol-discuss] PXE GRUB menu.lst

2008-10-01 Thread kristof
pxegrub default config file is: /tftprootpath/boot/grub/menu.lst -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris in 2001

2008-10-01 Thread James Carlson
Alexander R. Eremin writes: Wish to move per 2001? Now it is funny... http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=opensolarishl=enbtnG=Search Looks like we did better than promised, at least on the release.

Re: [osol-discuss] ps and column limit (how to get process' full command line)

2008-10-01 Thread Karel Gardas
Silly to reply myself. pargs(1) is what I've been looking for. Karel -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris in 2001

2008-10-01 Thread Calum Benson
On 1 Oct 2008, at 18:03, James Carlson wrote: Looks like we did better than promised, at least on the release. http://web.archive.org/web/20010417164807/www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2345514,00.html Nonetheless, our share price seems to have dropped just a little since that day...

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris in 2001

2008-10-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Calum Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nonetheless, our share price seems to have dropped just a little since that day... Multiply the old values by four to get comparable numbers. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Input Method Project

2008-10-01 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
http://tinyurl.com/iiimf2 Honestly I didn't get the glitch you would like to point out with these four screenshots. I was interested in helping explain the glitches, but couldn't with the screenshots. And original URL is just fine, I am not sure about others, but I prefer to see the URL in

Re: [osol-discuss] Choices Staying up to date

2008-10-01 Thread Paul van Berlo
Paul van Berlo wrote: [..snip..] If this is the case, based on the information I found on the Internet and in response to my forum post, can I assume there's no such thing as 'updates' for the 'stable' release of OpenSolaris 2008.05 and 2008.11 in the future? In other words, you always

Re: [osol-discuss] Choices Staying up to date

2008-10-01 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Well, as long as the future holds bug fix updates to the stable branch, I'm happy to go ahead and use OpenSolaris 'the way it is now', and live with the fact I need to update to a new unstable build to get fixes if needed for the time being. OpenSolaris does offer some features which I like

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris equivalents for GNU packages

2008-10-01 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
We depend following GNU packages to build/run Amanda (http://amanda.zmanda.com). glib2-2.14.2-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz gtar-1.15.91,REV=2006.07.26-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz readline-5.0,REV=2005.06.07-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz curlrt-7.18.0,REV=2008.01.28-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz

Re: [osol-discuss] [storage-discuss] Packaging questions

2008-10-01 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
thanks for the answers. We will follow filesystem(5) man page. For more information see http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amanda_packages_from_Zmanda_downloads_page#Installation_directories Paddy -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris equivalents for GNU packages

2008-10-01 Thread Paddy Sreenivasan
I just want to clarify that there is nothing wrong with blastwave packages. They work well. Amanda users will have to install these packages from another site. These 6 packages have another 12 dependencies. If some of the packages were available as part of default distribution install, users will

Re: [osol-discuss] ACER Aspire One and OpenSolaris B99, fdisk

2008-10-01 Thread David Clack
Hi All, So I went back to B98, FDISK works fine on the extra space. Boot screen even shows diagnostic disk and windows. I've got B99 rge and audiohd installed fine, working with the Xorg group on the video, it's only running 800x600 in vesa right now. Athros is giving a problem, B99

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris equivalents for GNU packages

2008-10-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Paddy Sreenivasan wrote: We depend following GNU packages to build/run Amanda (http://amanda.zmanda.com). What are the OpenSolaris express edition equivalent packages? We would like to avoid using packages from blastwave. This will make it easier for our users. There is no OpenSolaris

[osol-discuss] please help = network configuration !!

2008-10-01 Thread onkar
ifconfig -a lo0: flags=2001000849UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff00 nge0: flags=201000843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS mtu 1500 index 2 inet 192.168.1.17 netmask ff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether

[osol-discuss] network configuration problem

2008-10-01 Thread Bill Shannon
I installed 2008.05 on a new machine, upgraded to snv_98. Now I'm trying to convert to static IP. I disabled svc:/network/physical:nwam and enabled svc:/network/physical:default. I went to System Administration Network. It doesn't show *any* interfaces. Sigh. I rebooted. No help. I