Re: [dtrace-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] b17 copying behaviour?

2005-06-29 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi Dragan, On 06/30/05 00:00, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: [cut] Where is the cp source, btw? usr/src/cmd/mv - cp and mv have common source. Another example of slow transfer: copying these 4 isos to our install server (using setup_install_server + add_to_install_server) took the whole day (some 5

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-12 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 07/12/05 11:59, Joerg Schilling wrote: Dan Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: exec /bin/ksh -o vi As we alrerady have discussed before, this is a really bad idea as it may make a system unusable if /usr could not be mounted. It's been some time since I was last familiar with this stuff. A

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-07-12 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 07/12/05 17:48, Joerg Schilling wrote: Gavin Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyway, an ldd on /usr/bin/bash shows that it requires nothing outside of /lib (ie nothing in /usr). So my guess would be that simply copying /usr/bin/bash to /sbin would make it available to you in ti

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Graphic card problem

2005-07-13 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 07/12/05 22:44, roland wrote: I check the Logs and found that the error should be the configuration of X-server. But during the installation process, there is no way to config it. Does anyone knows how to config it, and how to start the configuration program for X-server? The display

Re: [osol-discuss] developing free software for OpenSolaris

2005-07-19 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 07/14/05 15:55, Joerg Schilling wrote: Jim Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The build/test farm would be available to OpenSolaris developers, and will provide access to various high-end and low-end Sparc, x64 and other hardware platforms. We plan on making it better than what's currently av

Re: [osol-discuss] developing free software for OpenSolaris

2005-07-19 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 07/14/05 20:11, Joerg Schilling wrote: Every second free software packet comes with illegal Makefiles that only "work" usually because they depend on bugs in Sun Make or GNU make. Note that OpenSolaris does not come with Sun Make, I use "smake" for /usr/ccs/bin/make: The supplied Studio 10

Re: [osol-discuss] short of storage

2005-07-21 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 07/21/05 17:02, roland wrote: The harddisk run out of storage for / How can i change the disk config to add more disk space for / without reinstall If you have additional usable slices elsewhere then a nice way of approaching this is via LiveUpgrade. You don't really upgrade but in copying

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is Solaris x86 limited to 21 CPUs?

2005-08-25 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 08/25/05 06:00, Felix Schulte wrote: On 8/24/05, Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:47:31PM +0200, Felix Schulte wrote: Why is Solaris x86 limited to 21 CPUs (http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts/i86pc/sys/machparam.h#51)? Is there simply no hard

Re: [osol-discuss] NCPU madness - which Sun product supports 558 CPUs?

2005-08-25 Thread Gavin Maltby
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:58, Felix Schulte wrote: Thinking twice about NCPU=559 - which Sun product actually supports 558 CPUs? 8 * 72 (SF15k) gives 576, 4*128 (the Fujitsu 128 CPU gear) gives 512 - no match ;-( On the "serengeti" platforms, eg SF6800, sibling cores on twin-core chips have cp

Re: [osol-discuss] Niagara machines for testing?

2005-08-25 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 08/24/05 22:23, Felix Schulte wrote: Does Sun offer a program for universities to evaluate+test Niagara1 machines (Sun-Fire-T200)? If you're thinking of beta test then I think they already have a wide range of beta customers. If you're thinking of post "revenue release" then contact your sa

Re: [osol-discuss] NCPU madness - which Sun product supports 558 CPUs?

2005-08-25 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi On 08/25/05 17:19, Felix Schulte wrote: What is the reason for having the cpuids 512 apart? Just bit mask shifting? Well we already had single-core cpus for which the numbering scheme was established (depending on platform layout) and there was a need to keep the old cpuid namespace disti

Re: [osol-discuss] NCPU madness - which Sun product supports 558 CPUs?

2005-08-25 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 08/25/05 17:34, Felix Schulte wrote: On 8/25/05, Gavin Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And how is this related to the mythical "Sun Fire-Link" product? Not that mythical - you used to be able to order it and I know of one site with I think 8 Starcats all linked via thi

Re: [osol-discuss] Suspend to disk on a Sun Fire 6800?

2005-09-06 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 09/04/05 01:26, Felix Schulte wrote: Does the Sun Fire 6800 support suspend to disk of single domains or the whole machine? Strictly speaking "CPR" (checkpoint-resume) is only supported on workstation class systems. But if you *know* your 6800 is suitable for the operations (likely meaning

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Source Study Blog

2005-09-07 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi On 09/06/05 19:24, Matthew Alton wrote: I have just started a blog dedicated to the study of the OpenSolaris source code. > I will try to provide a step-by-step guide to understanding the kernel code as I learn. All comments welcome. At some stage some sort of shared resource for docum

Re: [osol-discuss] bfu and Software Express?

2005-10-27 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi On 10/27/05 07:44, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: As far as I have read ( I don't know where I have read it) if I ever use BFU I can't use system update tools and I can't use Sun Update Connection to update my system. Is that true? Solaris Express does not have any patches at all. You can appl

Re: [osol-discuss] Studio 11

2005-10-28 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 10/27/05 18:43, Mike Kupfer wrote: Bart> The most important thing to do is to set your .make.machines file Bart> to have an appropriate amount of parallelism. .make.machines is just for ParallelMake, though, right? I'm pretty near certain that dmake also looks at .make.machines. Unlike Par

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Studio 11

2005-10-28 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi On 10/28/05 08:06, Robert Milkowski wrote: TY> Are you referring dmake to do parallel compilation(many cpus on one machine) or distributed one(many cpuson networked machines) ? I doubt it would make much difference - when I tried to compile on a 8-way dual core (16 cores) e2900 using tmpfs

Re: [osol-discuss] Something a little less drastic that 4m,

2005-12-08 Thread Gavin Maltby
James Dickens wrote On 12/07/05 13:09,: > While I can understand why no 4m, What I would like is something a bit > easier, i just want ultraI support, the CPU no the u1 platform. I This one is a whole lot easier/cleaner than sun4m, as you might expect. The putback that ripped out support for Ult

Re: [osol-discuss] _fini()

2005-12-12 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 12/12/05 15:04, Sh wrote: This is a module: #include . int _fini(void) { int i =mod_remove(...); return i; } int _init(void) { int i = modinstall(); _fini(); return i; } And I expect this module to unload automatically, so when I load it it should be unloaded by _fini().But, I st

Re: [osol-discuss] Roles on Solaris

2005-12-19 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 12/18/05 23:01, Joerg Schilling wrote: Hi, I am just working on a usage strategy for fine grained process privileges. Doing this, I did come across the term "role" which does not seem to be documented in the man pages well enough to allow to understand it. From the Solaris 10 System Admin

Re: [osol-discuss] X4200 + build 28/30?

2006-01-26 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi Rich, On 01/26/06 18:30, Rich Teer wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Rich Teer wrote: OK, S10 U1 has got a lot further than build 28 or build 30 of Nevada (it's currently installing as I type). Hurrah! The problem was definately with builds 28 and 30 of Nevada; I think this may have been t

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Express b31 doesn't boot on Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 400 (sun4us/FJSV).

2006-02-22 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 02/19/06 06:55, Ryo CHiba wrote: I'm very interested in developping OpenSolaris on SPARC Machine. Now I have a Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 400 Mid-range Server in my room, and it works well on Solaris 10 1/06 official release. I've read trunk/RelNotes, and it says you would build OpenSolaris source

Re: [osol-discuss] Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RH wins!

2006-03-14 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 03/14/06 12:19, Felix Schulte wrote: Good morning! Just saw https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2006-March/msg00049.html - Red Hat now supports 64 cpus on AMD64, Sun only 21. Why is Sun lagging behind so much? There has been some work to address this (and we have appropriate test equ

Re: [osol-discuss] Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RH wins!

2006-03-14 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 03/14/06 12:51, Felix Schulte wrote: When do you put the code back? I'm not working on it. You seem to be a bit short on memory here :-) No I remember the discussion very good. I am complaining that Red Hat is the technology leader now. Sun had half a year to deal with the problem. W

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun ONE Studio 11 speed ? Integer ops ? floating point ?

2006-03-18 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi On 01/08/06 17:38, UNIX admin wrote: Sun Studio 11 compiler *CRUSHED* GCC 4 on x86/x64. It generated far shorter and better optimized code. Interestingly enough, Visual Studio C compiler had the tightest code of all. BTW, to test, just compile with -S and you'll get assembler source out.

Re: [osol-discuss] Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RHwins!

2006-03-22 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 03/20/06 19:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FMA looks like it's about 100k/cpu (ERPT_MAX_ERRS * max_ncpu * ERPT_DATA_SZ) And they are all preallocated? Sounds like a bug to me. Yes they are, so that we can fill error reports from any context without worrying sbout kmem allocation, pil leve

Re: [osol-discuss] Red Hat vs. Sun processor number war: 64:21 - RHwins!

2006-03-23 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 03/22/06 21:54, Gavin Maltby wrote: On 03/20/06 19:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FMA looks like it's about 100k/cpu (ERPT_MAX_ERRS * max_ncpu * ERPT_DATA_SZ) And they are all preallocated? Sounds like a bug to me. Yes they are, so that we can fill error reports from any context wi

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWscpu ? Am I old fashioned and confused ?

2006-04-11 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 04/11/06 15:25, James Dickens wrote: On 4/11/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Do we need vipw to safely edit the /etc/passwd file ? YES!!! absolutely, people make mistakes, and no one wants to go down to the datacenter or even the basement, and boot the system with a

Re: [osol-discuss] physical memory issue

2007-02-13 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 02/13/07 08:46, David Biggs wrote: I am having some physical memory problems with a Solaris 8 Ultra 4. Solaris 8 predates OpenSolaris by some way ... Its being decommissioned next year so theres no money available for an upgrade so I am looking at ways to free up some physical memory I h

Re: [osol-discuss] Licensing

2007-02-13 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 02/13/07 12:56, Denis J. Cirulis wrote: Hi! I just wanted to clean things up to me on Solaris licensing. Assume I'm running a company which provides online services like web-hosting, web 2.0 project development and so on. Can I just download Solaris and put it on my servers and developers

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Fault Management Event Registry

2007-02-27 Thread Gavin Maltby
+1 from me for this proposal Gavin ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] cpu error in Sunfire 15K

2007-03-30 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 03/30/07 07:15, Rob Johnston wrote: According to the AFSR (asynchronous fault status register) a single-bit error was discovered in the Ecache on one of your processors. The Ecache has ECC, so the system is able to automatically detect and correct single-bit errors. If this is the only i

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Sensor Abstraction Layer for the Solaris Fault Manager

2007-04-26 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 04/26/07 22:07, cindi wrote: The Project This project proposes extensions to the fault management architecture (FMA) to support a sensor abstraction layer for the collection and analysis of sensor based telemetry that can be used in fault and resource management. [cut] +1 from me! Gav

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] where are atomic_read(), atomic_set() APIs?

2007-05-01 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 04/30/07 22:01, Chris Elving wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If those APIs do what their names suggests, what is the point in having them? "Atomic set" can hardly be anything other than a normal store nor can "Atomic read" be much different from an ordinary read. I'd find them useful.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-code] where are atomic_read(), atomic_set() APIs?

2007-05-01 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, On 05/01/07 11:52, Gavin Maltby wrote ... ... total nonsense! For example, Studio 11 with -xarch=sparcv8plus can generate two separate 32-bit ld instructions to load a single 64-bit value. An atomic_load_64(3C) function would be useful to ensure that a single ldx instruction is used

[osol-discuss] Project proposal: full FMA support for generic x86 machine-check architecture

2007-05-10 Thread Gavin Maltby
or sources are currently in the closed tree. Otherwise all applicable source is available in OpenSolaris. The event registry is now available externally to Sun, so there is no reason that the FMA portfolio cannot be prepared and published externally as part o

[osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal: full FMA support for generic x86 machine-check architecture

2007-05-10 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 05/10/07 14:22, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007, James Carlson wrote: Gavin Maltby writes: The Project This project proposes improving the generic support of x86 CPUs that implement the Machine Check Architecture (MCA). It *whew* PS/2 flashback ... +1 on the idea, but

Re: [osol-discuss] About Project Indiana

2007-05-11 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 05/11/07 06:58, Marc Hamilton wrote: -For the record, I use csh, not sh, bash, tcsh, etc. There are no plans to make csh the default Solaris shell. I still love Solaris! Beware - csh causes irreversible damage to your health :-) ___ opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-11 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, On 05/10/07 07:07, David Lloyd wrote: [snip] 2. Rethinking the way a shell is used or what a shell offers for different uses of an operating system [in some instances, having to guarantee you've got: /usr/openwin/bin/dtterm instead of /usr/bin/dtterm ...is important. in

[osol-discuss] Why a distro and not a branded zone?

2007-06-05 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, This question occured to me while catching up with the YetAnotherDistro/Indiana/OpenSolaris-distro dicsussion: why use a separate distribution as a delivery vehicle for a new userland toolset and not instead develop branded zones within existing distributions? As far as I can tell the variou

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_66 sparc boot fails

2007-06-29 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 06/24/07 20:47, Dennis Clarke wrote: I installed via the network ( who doesn't these days ? ) and upon first boot I saw the machine hang. I never got to the login prompt or very far at all actually. So I turned off the power and decided to boot -srv : [cut]: rev 2.2 FEPS chip fas

Re: [osol-discuss] stdout : no space

2007-07-03 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 07/02/07 20:28, Thomas wrote: > Im trying to install a few packages w/pkg-get but ive recived this error > stdout: No space on Device > > when i run df -h this is what I get: > > FilesystemsizeusedavailcapacityMounted on > /dev/dsk/c1d0s04.6G---4.5G-48M9

Re: [osol-discuss] What CPU run 64 bit kernel OpenSolaris

2007-07-05 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, On 07/04/07 21:56, Andrew Watkins wrote: > I know you may think it is a silly question, but I am unable to find the > answer. > OK! We know Sun SPARC chips all run 64 bit OpenSolaris, but which AMD and > Intel cpu can run it as well: The OpenSolaris source only supports a 64-bit sparc kerne

Re: [osol-discuss] What's the difference between debug and non-debug ON?

2007-07-05 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, On 07/05/07 10:17, ?? Tao Jie wrote: > What's the difference? Debug bits are compiled with DEBUG defined (-DDEBUG on cc cmdline etc). So any code that is bracketed by a #ifdef DEBUG ... #endif becomes active. This brings additional levels of debug and checking to life, eg in the sample code:

Re: [osol-discuss] panic[cpu0]/thread=fec1f2e0: assertion failed

2007-07-09 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 07/07/07 18:55, Dennis Clarke wrote: > after BFU of snv_68 : > > module /platform/i86pc/kernel//unix: text at [0xfe80, 0xfe8d4a8b] data > at 0xfec0 > module /kernel/genunix: text at [0xfe8d4a90, 0xfead88ff] data at 0xfec4cdc0 > > panic[cpu0]/thread=fec1f2e0: assertion failed: l2c

Re: [osol-discuss] WARNING during BFU

2007-07-09 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 07/09/07 10:27, Jürgen Keil wrote: >> # /opt/onbld/bin/bfu /export/gazelle/archives/`uname -p`/nightly >> Copying /opt/onbld/bin/bfu to /tmp/bfu.3376 >> Executing /tmp/bfu.3376 >> /export/gazelle/archives/i386/nightly >> >> Loading /export/gazelle/archives/i386/nightly on / >> >> Creating bfu

Re: [osol-discuss] vim + cscope

2007-07-12 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, On 07/12/07 05:38, Aubrey Li wrote: > Hi list, > > Does anyone have successful experience about vim + cscope to browse > solaris source code? > Unfortunate, I encountered the following error, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > /export/home/aubrey/work/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [osol-discuss] DL385 hangs after 90 minutes with B66

2007-08-02 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 08/02/07 15:31, Boyd Adamson wrote: Chris Linton-Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi all, I am trying to get SXCR B66 running on an HP DL385 G1 with 3x300G disks on a Smart Array 6i controller. I have managed to get the operating system installed several times; I use the HP-supplied CPQary3

Re: [osol-discuss] DL385 hangs after 90 minutes with B66

2007-08-06 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, On 08/06/07 13:04, Chris Linton-Ford wrote: Apologies for the delay in replying - our fileserver died a grisly death on Friday afternoon. Could you do the following for me, please: 0) In your BIOS options look for an option to remap/reclaim the dram hole, and if it is offering a choic

Re: [osol-discuss] DL385 hangs after 90 minutes with B66

2007-08-07 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 08/07/07 11:15, Chris Linton-Ford wrote: There doesn't appear to sufficiently many knobs to tweak on the G1 version of this hardware to force scrubbing on or off, alas. I'll run it with the advised /etc/system setting as this seems to work fine. Incidentally, this system needed a mainboard r

Re: [osol-discuss] using webrev

2007-09-24 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, On 09/23/07 20:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I would like to make a webrev for my changes to mdb. I tried webrev, but that complained. Then I looked at the documentation for webrev and then tried ws, but that also complained. Is there a way to do this with source that I downloade

Re: [osol-discuss] using webrev

2007-09-24 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 09/24/07 13:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [cut] I am also sending this to the tools-discuss list. Maybe someone there has a 1 pager. As it is, it looks like there are probably several ways to do this, but you have to know the path to take in advance... Try http://dlc.sun.com/osol/scm/S

Re: [osol-discuss] [tools-discuss] using webrev

2007-09-24 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 09/24/07 15:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bash-3.00$ webrev SCM detected: mercurial File list from: hg-active -p ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/onnv/onnv-gate ...Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/onbld/bin/hg-active", line 42, in ? from onbld.Scm.WorkSpace import WorkSpace

Re: [osol-discuss] IA64laris, anyone ? (an RFC)

2007-11-12 Thread Gavin Maltby
UNIX admin wrote: One could say the same about Solaris/SPARC, or AIX/POWER Oh, absolutely! SPARC and POWER are way too overpriced, which is just total and complete BS, not to mention that it angers the hell out of customers like me! And then Sun wonders WHY Solaris and SPARC can't pick up cri

Re: [osol-discuss] IA64laris, anyone ? (an RFC)

2007-11-14 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, On 11/13/07 00:53, UNIX admin wrote: RAS is great, impressive stuff, but it is NOT worth that kind of money! For the price of one RAS system, I can build several cheapo systems and cluster them. So what if one of those cheapo systems dies? Throw it out of the window, it's just one of man

Re: [osol-discuss] snv-76 panics on installation

2007-11-20 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 11/20/07 18:48, Bill Moloney wrote: I have an Intel based server running dual P3 Xeons (Intel A46044-609, 1.26GHz) with a BIOS from American Megatrends Inc (AMIBIOS, SCB2 production BIOS rev 2.0, BIOS build 0039) with 2GB of RAM when I attempt to install snv-76 the system panics during the

Re: [osol-discuss] Which display manager

2007-11-21 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 11/21/07 08:04, Roman Morokutti wrote: Hi does someone know which display manager is in use by default. It is definitively not gdm. Because I wanted to start gdmsetup which stated that it (gdm) would be not in use. I would have liked to play around with some fancy login screens, but do not

Re: [osol-discuss] Install of nv77x86 onto USB drives gives SCSI transport errors @ newfs time

2007-12-07 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, Noel Milton Vega wrote: > Hi: > > I gave up attempting to install Solaris10 nv77 on my Dell XPS-720 SATA drives > (see about 6 posts ago for problem there - basically the nv_sata driver > wouldn't > recognize directly connected SATA drives). > > Instead I decided to install Solaris10 nv77 o

Re: [osol-discuss] Why are there no 16 socket (or more) x64 servers on the market?

2008-01-29 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, On 01/29/08 12:18, Dennis wrote: Hi, I do not know, if this is the right place but I ask anyway: Why are there no 16 socket (or more) x64 (Xeon or Opteron) servers on the market? 1. is there no demand? I don't know about this. 2. are there techinchal restrictions? Yes, for example

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel SpeedStep support

2008-02-14 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, Rocky wrote: No. Bit 1 is not for C1E. C1E is a hardware feature that you really don't want to disable. It should provide good power management savings all on its own. OK, many thanks. Any other ideas on how to progress this? I'm getting the same syslog messages on a number of systems

Re: [osol-discuss] Anyone got Solaris running on a HP DL320s?

2008-03-08 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 03/07/08 11:14, Chris Linton-Ford wrote: Official statement regarding Solaris support from hp: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/solaris/index.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN Note that DL320 is not on the list: Solaris on ProLiant - certified & supported versions: http://h71028.w

Re: [osol-discuss] New ZFS NAS Build, HW opinions/experiences wanted...

2008-03-14 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 03/14/08 06:09, Curt Rebelein, Junior wrote: I'm currently in the process of obtaining new hardware for a ZFS NAS built on OpenSolaris. Thus far I have the following list of hardware picked out -> ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP Motherboard The sata ports of of that nV

Re: [osol-discuss] How to get platform name...

2008-03-28 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 03/27/08 15:39, Tim Haley wrote: Out of the smbios data, I believe. See smbios(1M). Yes, that is the source. There is also a private library libsmbios and an equivalent kernel module. They need a bit more code added to offer defense against the rubbish that can come from some smbios impl

Re: [osol-discuss] Shutting down PC

2008-04-02 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, On 03/24/08 15:51, Emmanuel De Paepe wrote: It seems that I'm not alone with this issue. Is your other machine also using an 'ASUS' motherboard or is it another manufacturer? Because I see both our machines have the same CPU (Q6600), the same amount of RAM (4GB) and the same brand of mot

Re: [osol-discuss] Does Solaris not use the the remaining 28 Gig?

2008-04-02 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 04/02/08 20:51, John Peter Sabini wrote: Please excuse this question but I am not a hardware nor sysadmin person. I just need verification of what I suspect to be the truth. A client of mine to whom I recommended Solaris 10 has a large sun box with 32 gig of memory. Because a third party libr

Re: [osol-discuss] Problems with SX B39 on dual Opteron

2006-05-25 Thread Gavin Maltby
Joerg Schilling wrote: I did just try to install the SX Build 39 DVD on my Dual Opteron (2x 242) PC with MSI K8T Master2-FAR7 board. When booting in -v mode, the last thing I see is the cpumod: Authentic AMD message and then stops for a while and reboots. Booting with -kv does not re

Re: [osol-discuss] Problems with SX B39 on dual Opteron

2006-05-26 Thread Gavin Maltby
Joerg Schilling wrote: The machine currently runs fine with Build 30. Hmmm, it sounds like you have a memory dimm producing an uncorrectable ECC error and prior to build 34 the detector/disposition were not enabled/correct so you got away with it. Try disabling ECC if the bios allows, or enab

Re: [osol-discuss] Problems with SX B39 on dual Opteron

2006-05-30 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 05/30/06 22:14, Joerg Schilling wrote: - boot kmdb -d and before starting up do - ::bp cpu.AuthenticAMD.15`ao_mca_init Before doing this test, I would like to show a stack trace that did take me a day to produce as usually the machine just hangs for 5 seconds and then reboots from

Re: [osol-discuss] Problems with SX B39 on dual Opteron

2006-05-30 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi On 05/30/06 23:18, Joerg Schilling wrote: Gavin Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ereport.cpu.amd.dc.inf_l2_ecc1 ena=114f86052e1 detector=[ version=0 scheme= So this is not an external ECC error but an CPU internal problem? Yes. One event in isolation is nothing to worry

Re: [osol-discuss] Problems with SX B39 on dual Opteron

2006-06-02 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi Joerg, On 05/30/06 23:51, Joerg Schilling wrote: [cut] kmdb: stop at cpu.AuthenticAMD.15`ao_nb_cfg kmdb: target stopped at: cpu.AuthenticAMD.15`ao_nb_cfg: pushl %ebp [1]> ao_nb_cfg_add/X cpu.AuthenticAMD.15`ao_nb_cfg_add: cpu.AuthenticAMD.15`ao_nb_cfg_add: a000105 [1]>

Re: [osol-discuss] Problems with SX B39 on dual Opteron

2006-06-02 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 05/30/06 22:14, Joerg Schilling wrote: Gavin Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: The machine currently runs fine with Build 30. Hmmm, it sounds like you have a memory dimm producing an uncorrectable ECC error and prior to build 34 the This is most unlikely

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for new OpenSolaris project: modernise syslogd

2006-06-09 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 06/09/06 11:31, Darren Reed wrote: To bring the syslogd shipped with Solaris up to a level that is more in line with what is found in other systems today, I'd like to propose a project to upgrade it. Tasks currently scoped out for this project include: - introduce some of the more modern aspe

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for new OpenSolaris project: modernise syslogd

2006-06-09 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 06/09/06 12:31, Darren J Moffat wrote: What problem does this solve ? Trawling syslog files with miserable Perl scripts and the like, trying to rebuild structure from a not very well-formed or structured ascii text. Writing a syslog event monitor should not involve grokking around in that m

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for new OpenSolaris project: modernise syslogd

2006-06-09 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi On 06/09/06 13:56, Darren J Moffat wrote: Gavin Maltby wrote: On 06/09/06 12:31, Darren J Moffat wrote: What problem does this solve ? Trawling syslog files with miserable Perl scripts and the like, trying to rebuild structure from a not very well-formed or structured ascii text

Re: Solved: Re: [osol-discuss] Problems with SX B39 on dual Opteron

2006-07-31 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 07/31/06 00:08, Joerg Schilling wrote: While this patch did not help, I am now able to boot the newer Solaris kernels on this system. What I did: I did replace the 2 Opteron 242 by 2 Opteron 275 borrowed from AMD. So it looks like newer Solaris versions have problems with older Opteron chi

Re: [osol-discuss] more snv_46 weirdness : metattach issues odd message

2006-09-01 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi On 09/01/06 01:59, Dennis Clarke wrote: I have SVM metadevices defined in the usual way. # metattach d7 d27 d7: submirror d27 is attached metattach: mars: /dev/md/dsk/d0: not a metadevice # That last message makes no sense. I already have d0 defined and setup fine. So .. where did that

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for new feature

2006-09-06 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 09/06/06 07:13, Nergal Dimitri wrote: I was reading about scheduling classes in the latest version of 'Solaris Internals' book, when it struck me. Why not have a dynamic range of scheduling classes? Default would be as it is now, but wouldn't it be possible to make it dynamic so the admin

[osol-discuss] Re: Work-around for HP DL385/585 run-time hang

2006-09-06 Thread Gavin Maltby
r putback in the next week or so. Thanks to everyone for your help; I know this has been frustrating. My apologies for the delay in fixing this, and that it is present in Solaris 10 Update 2 at all. I logged 6391605 back in February but the fix for it is mildly messy and most easily addressed with the

Re: [osol-discuss] Real work needs to be done Was: Re: License rathole:

2006-09-07 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 09/07/06 01:20, Joerg Schilling wrote: John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can we please go back to discussing more productive topics? If you have time to do more productive work and are interested in doing so, you could help to finally integrate star into opensolaris. I'm not sure

Re: [osol-discuss] x86 vs SPARC

2006-10-26 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi On 10/25/06 10:24, Gino Ruopolo wrote: Hi All, - THIS IS NOT A FLAME!! -- I'll take your word for it :-) I'm doing some serious comparison to decide what to do with some old USIII 900 servers. What do you mean by the 900? 900MHz US-III - you quite 750MHz below. My applicat

Re: [osol-discuss] panic booting with B51 x86 DVD. LONG!

2006-12-01 Thread Gavin Maltby
John Weekley wrote: cfb37b0c mc-amd:mcdcfg_csname+a1 (201, 0, cfb37b5) cfb37c68 mc-amd:mc_nvl_create+1f8 (d5992540) cfb37c94 mc-amd:mc_attach+317 (d5cb55b0, 0) cfb37cc4 genunix:devi_attach+6c (d5cb55b0, 0) cfb37ce8 genunix:attach_node+81 (d5cb55b0) Sorry I missed this thread until the bug

Re: [osol-discuss] Access hardware counters with DTrace

2006-12-13 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 12/13/06 15:47, Paul van den Bogaard wrote: Could find a thread dated jun 2005 where this was raised by Brendan Greg. Basic question still is if it is possible to get access to the CPU hardware counters using DTrace. I believe Jon Haslam was looking at implementing this. Jon? Gavin ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Some fun ("Corrected ECC Error") with my "new" Blade1000 from EBay...

2006-12-18 Thread Gavin Maltby
On 12/16/06 14:10, Roland Mainz wrote: Corrected ECC Error ok Corrected ECC Error -- snip -- Erm... that sounds like "bad memory", right ? Or is there any other possible issue which may cause this problem ? I think that message is for a correctable error from main memory (and not from l2 c

Re: [osol-discuss] 100% CPU usage on an idle system

2009-07-22 Thread Gavin Maltby
Jürgen Keil wrote: Load is high; and there are quite a few context switches, system calls and faults. Maybe gnome-session is trying to start some gui process is a loop, but the process is crashing? To investigate this possibility, run the following as root (or pfexec etc): dtrace -s /use/dem

Re: [osol-discuss] search for a package in existing list pf publisher

2009-08-04 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi Shawn Walker wrote: There's an RFE open for restricting search to a specific publisher: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10338 With that said, if you want to see what publisher a search result came from, show the results as packages with -p: $ pkg search -p 'SUNWipkg' PAC

Re: [osol-discuss] ulimit -u not working

2009-10-13 Thread Gavin Maltby
ect, 1 per project etc. If there is a project 'user.' then that's the one they get at login; otherwise next choice is group. and eventually the 'default' project. I use a project per user (ie user. for each user) but in other cases separating them into groups may be e

Re: [osol-discuss] perl broken after upgrading from os2008.11 to os2009.06

2009-10-26 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, solarg wrote: hello all, i have a web app that do a huge use of perl modules. After upgrading, my app is broken, and i notice: r...@koha2:~# /usr/perl5/5.8.4/bin/cpan IO object version 1.21 does not match bootstrap parameter 1.23 at /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/i86pc-solaris-64int/XSLoader.pm line

Re: [osol-discuss] callout_list_get again

2009-11-13 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi Kristin Amundsen wrote: We're having issues with our kernel getting bogged down by callout_list_get. I bounced this off Madhavan who reimplemented much of the callout stuff a while back. He believes this issue was fixed in build 113; you are running build 111. So image-update to more-rec

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris snv130 hangs on booting in VMWare ESXi 4.0

2010-01-12 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, [cc'd fm-discuss] On 01/12/10 20:25, Maurice Volaski wrote: When I try to boot from the snv130 iso at GenUnix in an ESXi 4.0 guest set to Solaris 64-bit, I get the grub screen, then it ultimately hangs at the next screen with the error: NOTICE: cmi_hdl_create: chipid 15 coreid 0 strandid

Re: [osol-discuss] libkstat corruption

2010-01-28 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi On 01/28/10 16:45, Bruno Damour wrote: Well, I copied the file back from live-cd so I'm back online. Investigating, I found in the console output (when it happend) : [output of kstat|grep misc] amber ~ # libkstat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libkstat.so.1 bash: libkstat.so.1: command not foun

Re: [osol-discuss] Does xVM can work in VMWare virtual machine?

2008-07-14 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi Richard Liu wrote: > After install nv91 in VMWare when boot with xVM the machine will be auto > restarted when system init, does xVM kernel can boot in VMWare? Thanks. No, in general stacking one type 2 hypervisor on top of another does not work. Gavin ___

Re: [osol-discuss] df doesn't work well with chroot, how to resolve it.

2008-08-10 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, wan_jm wrote: > the problem is the follow command gives the error message . but the command > works well in solaris9. Is it a bug ? > bash-3.00# chroot /secroot /usr/sbin/df -b / > df: cannot statvfs /secroot: No such file or directory > > what should I do. > > part result of "truss chroot

Re: [osol-discuss] How can I know, the machine is vm or physical?

2008-08-11 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, Paresh Devalekar wrote: > Hi, > > I have one requirement, where I have to check, whether machine is physical or > VM (virtual machine)? > > Anyone have idea, how to know it? Is there is any command or function which > can give me this info? Is this with a specific virtualization product,

Re: [osol-discuss] built kernel image not booting

2008-08-25 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, shelly wrote: > While building opensolaris source , I got following mail on completion of > build. > > Can somebody tell me whether this error effects my installation of the new > kernel image. As the built kernel image is not booting. There were no > further warnings or errors in the ma

Re: [osol-discuss] Regarding Solaris SCTP Stack

2008-09-02 Thread Gavin Maltby
Akhil Jain wrote: > Hi, > I want to ask that Solaris10 provide any support for SCTP statistics > (like number of chunks transmitted,received etc.)as mentioned in RFC 3873. If > yes kindly tell me where i can find these API's. Not sure if these are helpful, but you can get overall sctp stat

Re: [osol-discuss] FMA: ereport.cpu.intel.nb.ie

2008-11-02 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, This looks like 6744203. The nb.ie is an internal error in the NorthBridge, but apparently type B6 is a hardware-corrected ECC error of some sort and so the immediate diagnosis of nb.ie to a fault is incorrect. Gavin Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello opensolaris-discuss, > > fmdump -e -u 3c

Re: [osol-discuss] Nexenta's CEO blogging about 2009, OpenStorage, GPL, CDDL, etc

2009-02-04 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, Robert Milkowski wrote: > But I wonder - since Fishworks is being distributed by Sun where is > all the source code available for all the changes to CDDL covered > software? Except for the code which has already been integrated into > ON. > The fishworks ON gate (they have others for the ap

Re: [osol-discuss] [appliances-discuss] Multi core support

2009-03-16 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, Martin Bochnig wrote: [cut] In your case it appears, as if the 2nd core has not been correctly initialized indeed (or as if the 2nd core has been shut down / disabled). Could it be that the CPUID of your CoreDuo2 2.4GHz chip is just too brand new, and hence not in the kernel's cpu-identifi

Re: [osol-discuss] unix`HYPERVISOR_sched_op -> What is my kernel doing?

2009-03-31 Thread Gavin Maltby
Hi, Andre Boegelsack wrote: Hi to everyone, I hope you might be able to help me. I'm running several CPU and memory intensive load tests on my machine. I've installed a Sun Developer Express edition and several virtual machine with the same operating system. Now I'm interested in what the hyp

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris boot process

2009-05-07 Thread Gavin Maltby
Sean McGrath wrote: A nice graphical view of the boot is at: http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/date/20050106#boot_chart_results its from 2005, but still shows init, autopush, soconfig, and svc.startd. - as well as every process thereafter untill the last script in etc/rc3.d has been

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