Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-01 Thread Svein Skogen
On 01.06.2010 05:42, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Edward Martinez wrote: I don't know where you got the idea that IBM has frozen development of the POWER architecture I was quoting the article. i think it's mention in the eightieth paragraph the link to the article:

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-01 Thread Edward Martinez
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/27/idc_q1_2010_se rver_nums/ Which if read in context did not say that Solaris, HP-UX or AIX were frozen, just that *if* that happened, then Linux would gain more market share. The non-misleading in-context quote is: It is hard to imagine Linux

Re: [osol-discuss] samba version

2010-06-01 Thread Andrew Watkins
Brandon High wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:06 PM, John Ryan john.r...@internode.on.net wrote: Why not CIFS then? - It's streaks ahead of Samba Samba has some advantages, such as the ability to act as domain controller or AD master. The native cifs server certainly wins on performance,

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-06-01 Thread Brandon Hume
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:22 -0700, lance tan wrote: When I login to osol from another host in the LAN, obviously, the DNS server couldn't reverse resolve the IP inside the LAN. But there is no way to disable DNS reverse lookup by SunSSH. No, but you can trick it. Toss the IPs in question

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-06-01 Thread Albert Lee
On Mon, 31 May 2010 20:22:39 PDT, lance tan lam...@hotmail.com wrote: I am using DNS. My DNS server is my Wireless Router, actually it is just a proxy, it forwards DNS messages to ISP's DNS server. When I login to osol from another host in the LAN, obviously, the DNS server couldn't reverse

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-01 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi, I don't think people should fly off the handle and think that Solaris or AIX are going away. The Gartner and IDC numbers about about units sold in a quarter. The reality is that even with the UltraSPARC T-Series servers, you don't have to buy as many servers as you use to in order to get

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-01 Thread Oscar del Rio
On 06/ 1/10 07:59 AM, Edward Martinez wrote: I just read AMD opterons and Linux is powering the worlds fastest supercomputer. If the x86 platform and Linux now has the capacity to produce this type of results, where does this leave Power and SPARC platfroms?

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-01 Thread John Plocher
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Oscar del Rio del...@mie.utoronto.ca wrote: Solaris achieved a world record TPC-H 3 TB non-clustered performance result of 188,229.9 q...@3000gb with a price of $20.19/q...@3000gb. Translated : for $3,800,361.60 you can buy a lot of whatever you want,

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-06-01 Thread Shawn Walker
On 06/ 1/10 05:39 AM, Brandon Hume wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:22 -0700, lance tan wrote: When I login to osol from another host in the LAN, obviously, the DNS server couldn't reverse resolve the IP inside the LAN. But there is no way to disable DNS reverse lookup by SunSSH. No, but you

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-06-01 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/1/2010 9:19 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 06/ 1/10 05:39 AM, Brandon Hume wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:22 -0700, lance tan wrote: When I login to osol from another host in the LAN, obviously, the DNS server couldn't reverse resolve the IP inside the LAN. But there is no way to disable

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-01 Thread bsd
The market for supercomputers is vastly different than the commercial market. Even though Linux is used on supercomputers, it isn't an off-the-shelf version that companies purchase from Red Hat or Novell to run commercial applications. There is also truth in what Octave mentioned in the supply

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-06-01 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
Shawn - just change the hosts line of /etc/nsswitch.conf to be: hosts: files dns I wonder why this is not the default setting. I had to apply exactly this change in order to just surf the web. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-06-01 Thread Shawn Walker
On 06/ 1/10 10:20 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: On 6/1/2010 9:19 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: On 06/ 1/10 05:39 AM, Brandon Hume wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:22 -0700, lance tan wrote: When I login to osol from another host in the LAN, obviously, the DNS server couldn't reverse resolve the IP inside

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-01 Thread Ian Collins
On 06/ 1/10 11:59 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: I just read AMD opterons and Linux is powering the worlds fastest supercomputer. If the x86 platform and Linux now has the capacity to produce this type of results, where does this leave Power and SPARC platfroms?

[osol-discuss] SCSI board support?

2010-06-01 Thread Xavier Beaudouin
Hello, I had some woes about OpenSolaris and SCSI support. I had on my desk a 2940, the band old reference that works everywhere but not on OpenSolaris. I have difficulties to find an HCL about SCSI supported cards and models, and since I have a JBOD with 12 300GB HD, it will be a shame

Re: [osol-discuss] SCSI board support?

2010-06-01 Thread Ian Collins
On 06/ 2/10 08:49 AM, Xavier Beaudouin wrote: Hello, I had some woes about OpenSolaris and SCSI support. I had on my desk a 2940, the band old reference that works everywhere but not on OpenSolaris. That card only has a 32 bit driver in Solaris. I have difficulties to find an HCL

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-01 Thread Octave Orgeron
Speaking from an HPC perspective, it is interesting how the market shifted years ago. I remember when most HPC shops were buy Alphas, SGI's, and Crays with distaste for x86. While those platforms were more expensive, the reality is that they took up less space and complexity. For example, 5 x

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Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-01 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] At the end of the day, it probably makes sense for Oracle to focus on the mid-range to high-end for SPARC. If Oracle can make Containers, LDoms, and DSDs as easy to manage as VMware.. that could change the game. Making all this great technology more accessible will help grow business.

[osol-discuss] printers:snmp appears to be in maintenance mode. snv_134

2010-06-01 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Dear all, I am having a problem getting my snmp service online, it keeps appearing in maintenance even when I restart and stop it. I can't figure out what it is, see my log. Please advise. Thank you.

Re: [osol-discuss] SUN not doing well under Oracle.

2010-06-01 Thread Octave Orgeron
This is very true. At the same time there has to be a fine balance between operations and engineering support. Products should be easy enough for operations to get the day-to-day work accomplished, but have enough flexibility and control for experts to get under the hood for tuning and

Re: [osol-discuss] printers:snmp appears to be in maintenance mode. snv_134

2010-06-01 Thread Norm Jacobs
This looks remarkably like bug 6883815 device-discovery/printers:snmp always goes into maintenance which has the following workaround # pfexec pkg install SUNWnet-snmp-core # pfexec patch -b /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf EOF --- hal.conf.origSun Sep 6 00:41:31 2009 +++