Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-23 Thread Erik Trimble
On 8/22/2010 5:47 PM, Jason wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, John Plocherjohn.ploc...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/20 Matthias Pfütznermatth...@pfuetzner.de Let me add some numbers... ... that a high percentage might be working on Solaris might provide us with an approach to a number

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-23 Thread Euan Thoms
I downloaded it out of curiosity. Looks like it's based on 2008.11 or close?! uname -a contains the string NexentaOS_20081207. The included FF is 3.0.5. The forum posts indicate this is a one man show. Upon boot of the live CD, it complains about Gnome not being installed properly, and

[osol-discuss] snv_134 slow down every monday morning

2010-08-23 Thread Daniel Taylor
Hello, I've got a bit of an odd bug with my OS NAS, every monday morning I come into work and I have to reboot it. SSH doesn't respond and nor does the CIFS shares. And the ping response times are very high! All the backup scripts I have feeding information into this machine run twice and

Re: [osol-discuss] place yer bets on who leaves next...

2010-08-23 Thread Mark Bennett
We are sys admins of some Sun muchines we've sold to a customer in the Sun era. A T5120 with a ZFS mirror, had a disk fault, causing cyclic reset of the machine. Our hardware guy ran to the customer, disabled the disk and moved it out of the machine. Upon reboot the machine started normally,

[osol-discuss] Xclock is not starting

2010-08-23 Thread Vineet Sinha
Hi, I have user who when start xclock from his id it comes up fine. But when he switch as oracle user and try to start Xclock. it fails saying Can't open display. There is also small script he executes after he switch as oracle user:- #!/bin/bash /usr/openwin/bin/xauth add

Re: [osol-discuss] Will this forum shut down?

2010-08-23 Thread Tim Evans
...and will likely end up as dead as Oracle's own Sun forums are becoming. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-23 Thread Edward Martinez
I downloaded it out of curiosity. Looks like it's based on 2008.11 or close?! uname -a contains the string NexentaOS_20081207. The included FF is 3.0.5. The forum posts indicate this is a one man show. Upon boot of the live CD, it complains about Gnome not being installed properly, and

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-23 Thread Edward Martinez
oops, i forgot to add that apt-get update needs to be executed first to be able to install from the repos:-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-23 Thread Peter Jones
There is a need to start an independent forum before the decision is made to kill this forum...any ideas or sponsors? Do we carry ads to pay for it? Anyone know anyone at Adobe? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-23 Thread Edward Martinez
There is a need to start an independent forum before the decision is made to kill this forum...any ideas or sponsors? Do we carry ads to pay for it? Anyone know anyone at Adobe?Google non profit services? seems like somebody already started one but don't know if it is still active

[osol-discuss] How to change Memory Placement Optimization tunable parameters using mdb

2010-08-23 Thread Kishore Kumar Pusukuri
Hi, Please let me know how to change MPO tunable parameters using mdb on my AMD Opteron machine running OpenSolaris 2009.06. For example, how to change lgrp_mem_default_policy to LGRP_MEM_POICY_RANDOM. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Measuring cost of TLB misses

2010-08-23 Thread Bart Smaalders
On 08/20/10 21:21, Kishore Kumar Pusukuri wrote: Hi, I am able to measure TLB miss-rate of a multi-threaded application running on my multi-core AMD Opteron machine by reading performance monitoring event counters using cpustat utility. However, I would like to measure the amount of time spent

[osol-discuss] from anonymous - 50 plus year old

2010-08-23 Thread George Orwell
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/07/14/1448209/OpenSolaris-Governing-Board-Closing-Shop?from=rss This is not verified nor confirmed. If this is so, then Oracle appears to be a culture of 'control freaks.' former licensed professional engineer with OFFICER status - multi state in

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris kernel based desktop - StormOS

2010-08-23 Thread Andrew Stormont
Hi, I'm the guy that created StormOS and apart from a friend of mine that does the graphics it's a one man show. All ~2000 packages in the repository were put there by myself. The ISO's on the site are _very_ out of date since I decided that my effort would be best spent fixing the underlying

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

2010-08-23 Thread Cia Watson
On 08/23/10 11:06 AM, Edward Martinez wrote: There is a need to start an independent forum before the decision is made to kill this forum...any ideas or sponsors? Do we carry ads to pay for it? Anyone know anyone at Adobe?Google non profit services? seems like somebody already started

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_134 slow down every monday morning

2010-08-23 Thread William Bauer
What exactly are your backup scripts doing? Have you run a zpool scrub on your pool(s), and do so regularly? Do you have a mirror or other RAID config? Have you tried going one Sunday without any of your backups running to see if they're the culprit? Details may help someone help you. My