Re: [osol-discuss] Disk performance woes under Indiana

2008-06-26 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:23:36PM -0700, victor wrote: > Quad core xeon 2.66ghz x5355 slower system? Sorry, I did reread that after posting, that isn't really slow. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=100 > 100+0 records in > 100+0 records out > 104857600 bytes

Re: [osol-discuss] Disk performance woes under Indiana

2008-06-26 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
G'Day Victor, On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:09:04PM -0700, victor wrote: > Okay I got more information... > > I detached the second disk and starting benchmarking it. Here are the results. > > Write to zvol: > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/zvol/rdsk/foo/ufs bs=1024k count=100 > 104857600 bytes (105 MB

Re: [osol-discuss] Disk performance woes under Indiana

2008-06-26 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
G'Day Victor, On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:09:04PM -0700, victor wrote: > Okay I got more information... > > I detached the second disk and starting benchmarking it. Here are the results. > > Write to zvol: > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/zvol/rdsk/foo/ufs bs=1024k count=100 > 104857600 bytes (105 MB

Re: [osol-discuss] Disk performance woes under Indiana

2008-06-26 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
G'Day Victor, On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:56:26AM -0700, victor wrote: > Thank you for the suggestion here are the results. I hate to scale it down to > a 34 meg file, 128 megs took too long to write out. Compression is off. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ptime dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=128k count=2

Re: [osol-discuss] Disk performance woes under Indiana

2008-06-26 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
G'Day Victor, Lets shuffle this thread over to perf-discuss (or zfs-discuss). On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:19:01AM -0700, victor wrote: > Okay, no matter how hard I try I just can't get the disk speeds to be > remotely reasonable on Indiana snv_91. > > Here are the stats on the box in question: >

Re: [osol-discuss] Longest uptime?

2008-03-21 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 09:53:06AM -0700, Orvar Korvar wrote: > How long uptime for Solaris and which version, have you heard of? Please be > quite sure when you post, not something like "i heard a tale about a > strangers cat whose neighbour had a solaris box in poland that had 5 years > uptime

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Mozilla DTrace project

2007-03-07 Thread Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems
G'Day All, On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:21:53PM +, John Rice wrote: > Hi, > > We'd like to propose a Mozilla DTrace project for inclusion on > Opensolaris.org. We'd like it to be an endorsed project of the DTrace, > Desktop and Performance Communities. > > Initial Project Goals: > 1. Design

[osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal: java kstats

2007-03-01 Thread Brendan Gregg
+1 It would be great to see Java provide easy access to all the major sources of statistics -- DTrace, kstat, SNMP and procfs (may need someone to write a procfs interface - I haven't checked if one exists). In which case, one new possibility would be to write a Java SymbEL interpreter to run S

Re: [osol-discuss] What does prstat report for CPU usage percent ?

2006-06-20 Thread Brendan Gregg
G'Day Dennis, On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > I have a system here that runs snv_38 and I have a bit of code that cranks a > large pile of numbers about. All of this is integer operations with the > exception of maybe two lines that require floating point. That would be two > line

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: OpenSolaris Articles Project

2006-01-24 Thread Brendan Gregg
G'Day Folks, On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Alan Hargreaves wrote: > I've just gone through this thread. So have I. I can see the difference between an Articles project and a Documentation community, and so far I think it makes sense for them to be seperate. Of course, we'll have a better idea once we hav

[osol-discuss] New Community Proposal: Games

2006-01-15 Thread Brendan Gregg
another OpenSolaris contributer have been writing a game, but more on that later)... cheers, Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia] ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Please update 4113420 (request for ksh93 integration)

2006-01-09 Thread Brendan Gregg
G'Day Folks, On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Felix Schulte wrote: [...] > 3. /usr/dt/bin/dtksh should not be listed as workaround - this version > of ksh93 is based on a alpha version of the Korn shell - which should > have never been shipped with a production OS due too many bugs and > problems according to

Re: [osol-discuss] major shortcoming in community bug process

2005-08-21 Thread Brendan Gregg
G'Day Folks, On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Alan Hargreaves - Product Technical Support (APAC) wrote: > Just been having a discussion with a memober of the community (you know > who you are; but no names, no pack drill) who logged a bug, had it > updated by a sun engineer, but now has a problem because of

[osol-discuss] CDDL's header block

2005-07-02 Thread Brendan Gregg
G'Day Folks, Are there any variants on the CDDL header that we can paste into code? The only one I've seen is the one at the top of every OpenSolaris source file. It's rather long and doesn't really explain itself as an open source, royalty free license. I've commented on the CDDL header below a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: TCP SNOOP

2005-07-01 Thread Brendan Gregg
G'Day Raymond, On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Raymond Scott wrote: > I'll be trying this out > We just went through a painful process of changing from another vendors > LDAP directory product to Sun's directory. Part of the conversion meant > watching who was still using the old directories and telling