Re: [osol-discuss] mdb query

2010-08-10 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Eric Thank you, that is definitely the starting point. Once we have the driver's context structure pointer, to dump it out will i have to implement a mdb extension (Chapter 10 in mdb reference) to dump the fields of this context structure? agree, the driver's internal structure is part of

Re: [osol-discuss] Trying to recover rpool space after multiple updates

2010-08-10 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
I did (finally) manage to figure out where all the space went: various VirtualBox snapshots, variously buried within ZFS snapshots, took up tens of gigs of space. Once those were all merged and cleaned up, my disk is back to happy state, with about 30 GB free on a 60 GB disk. Thanks for all of

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-08-10 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
No reason to apologize; you guys have been SO helpful to me, getting started with OpenSolaris over the past year. In the event, the system is working fine. I have a 8-port Dell SAS 6i/R controller, but the default cable set for this machine only has six connectors (four on channel 0, and two on

Re: [osol-discuss] mdb query

2010-08-10 Thread Shank
Thank you, you have put me on the right track. And yes, custom mdb modules are not really what i was looking for. I do appreciate your help! -Shank -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Using multiple page sizes

2010-08-10 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
The short answer, AFAIK, is yes, these are the only page sizes you can use. You cannot select arbitrary sizes and use them at will. Here is some detail: The page size support table in the kernel is hw_page_array[] and is populated for the x86 by page_coloring_init() in i86pc/vm/vm_machdep.c

Re: [osol-discuss] New onnv distro naming suggestion

2010-08-10 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
most OpenSolaris users today have no idea what ON is Indeed, I had to (google) search to find out what ON is - to understand better what Illumos project is all about. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Edward Martinez
I think this may be important to solaris customers:) excerpt: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PT Live Webcast Join John Fowler, Executive Vice President, Systems, for a live update on the strategy and roadmap for Oracle’s Sun servers, storage and complete

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Stefan Parvu
I just returned from a short trip. So what was the conclusion and what are the news about Oracle Systems Strategy Update ? Something new ? How about Solaris/OpenSolaris ? thanks, Stefan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Edward Martinez
I just returned from a short trip. So what was the conclusion and what are the news about Oracle Systems Strategy Update ? Something new ? How about Solaris/OpenSolaris ? thanks, Stefan news as requested;) Oracle Details Upcoming Solaris 11 Release excerpt: quotes from presentation:

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Stefan Parvu
thanks. stefan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Paul Gress
news as requested;) Oracle Details Upcoming Solaris 11 Release excerpt: quotes from presentation: We have a large new version of Solaris coming out in 2011 called Solaris 11, John Fowler, Oracle's executive vice president of systems, told InternetNews.com Fowler said that quite a bit of

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Edward Martinez
it will probably be tuned for Database and Servers. Oracle may well remove most desktop and laptop functionality, after all, it's not required and makes support much harder. Fowler added that Oracle will continue to invest in its open source communities. That said he noted that Oracle really

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Calum Benson
On 10 Aug 2010, at 21:22, Paul Gress wrote: Also, if I read in between the lines for this statement Solaris 11 will be a superset of what is in Opensolaris, it say's to me, Oracle is not open with Opensolaris any more. There will likely be proprietary extensions added not in

[osol-discuss] Segmentation fault when using libhoard memory allocat and getting core dump

2010-08-10 Thread Kishore Kumar Pusukuri
I am trying to see the impact of different memory allocators on multi-threaded workloads on my AMD machine running OpenSolaris 2009.06. I successfully used libmtmalloc and libumem, however, it is giving core dump (through SEG fault) when I used libhoard_32.so. However, I didn't get any errors

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/11/10 08:22 AM, Paul Gress wrote: Forgive me if I don't get excited. But thats for Solaris 11, for all we know, based on Larrys expectations, it will probably be tuned for Database and Servers. Oracle may well remove most desktop and laptop functionality, after all, it's not required

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Brian Utterback
On 08/10/10 16:22, Paul Gress wrote: Also, if I read in between the lines for this statement Solaris 11 will be a superset of what is in Opensolaris, it say's to me, Oracle is not open with Opensolaris any more. There will likely be proprietary extensions added not in Opensolaris. Basically I

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Martinez it will probably be tuned for Database and Servers. Oracle may well remove most desktop and laptop functionality, after all, it's not required and makes

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Martinez it will probably be tuned for Database and Servers. Oracle may well remove most desktop and laptop functionality, after all, it's not required and makes

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: #3 It does not make sense to discontinue development of opensolaris. Some day they'll have to make a solaris 12, you know. But they're diverting development away from opensolaris right now, to make *damn* sure they release solaris 11 this year. My calender still

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Paul Gress
On 08/10/10 11:45 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Isn't this all what I've said right along? It's the only thing that makes sense: #1 Solaris is extremely out of date w.r.t. opensolaris. Oracle needs to release a commercially viable updated solaris while they still have an edge over BTRFS and

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming web event:strategy for Oracle's Sun Servers, Storage and solaris

2010-08-10 Thread Edward Martinez
Update- i want to add that it seems Mr. Fowler has confimerd that Oracle stopped developing new servers around AMD CPUs and will use Intel CPUs only, looks like a move from Jobs playbook;) excerpt: In the interview, Fowler confirmed earlier reports that Oracle has stopped developing servers