Re: [osol-discuss] Zones zone.max-shm-memory setting.

2010-11-25 Thread Menno Lageman
zone.max-shm-memory defines the maximum size of a shared memory segment. So if it is set to 4Gig then the maximum shared memory segment will be 4 Gig. Sorry, but that is incorrect. zone.max-shm-memory limits the *total* amount of shared memory that can be allocated by a zone, *not* the size

Re: [osol-discuss] [driver-discuss] Need 2009.06 driver for VIA VT6105/VT6106S Rhine-III

2009-06-25 Thread Menno Lageman
Mike Watkins wrote: is going from 2009.11 to Nevada b116 (or now b117) possible? I'm thinking reinstall... Can someone confirm? If you use the 'dev' repository for 2009.06, you should be able to upgrade to build 116 shortly. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] mdb dcmd name ::memstat reports wild freelist

2008-01-14 Thread Menno Lageman
Yup. This is 6174625 ::memstat should not show ridiculous amounts of free memory This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Democracy and open source - nit - Re: Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-11-01 Thread Menno Lageman
laptop, I'm fairly impressed with their product. What I object to is the fact that the *project* Indiana seems to have unilaterally taken possession of the name OpenSolaris, and even the homepage of opensolaris.org as if there weren't any other OpenSolaris distributions. Menno -- Menno Lageman

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Democracy and open source - nit - Re: Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-11-01 Thread Menno Lageman
Shawn Walker wrote: On 01/11/2007, Menno Lageman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Plocher wrote: Brian Gupta wrote: In other words, Ian seems to have decided that democracy is a bad way to run an open source project, and wants to install himself as benevolent dictator. OpenSource efforts

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Express b59

2007-03-15 Thread Menno Lageman
- Original Message - From: Douglas Atique [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:01 pm Subject: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Express b59 To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ok, so I have a little bit more information on this. I managed to boot with kmdb loaded and set

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal for Xfce Desktop

2007-02-05 Thread Menno Lageman
Doug Scott wrote: For you who don't know, Xfce is a lightweight desktop built using the gtk+ libraries. Currently there is a very old verion of Xfce as part of the companion CD with no owner. I am proposing to move the development to a project within the Desktop Community, where it shares

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread Menno Lageman
Dennis Clarke wrote: I personally have always wondered why the ps command display what root is doing to ordinary users like as if it is any of their business but that is another idea I just let rattle around in my head. Dennis, You can do this (in Solaris 10 and up) by taking away the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: new to solaris, some differences from linux...

2007-01-14 Thread Menno Lageman
Dennis Clarke wrote: Hi Dennis 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # uname -a SunOS topgun 5.11 snv_43 i86pc i386 i86pc Made the entry into /etc/user_attr mritundefaultpriv=basic,!proc_info Before: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# ps -ef | wc -l 84 After (logout then again login) 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~# ps

Re: [osol-discuss] Planet OpenSolaris is now live!

2006-11-15 Thread Menno Lageman
Glynn Foster wrote: Hey, Planet OpenSolaris is now live and unleashed! http://grommit.com/pos You'll notice a couple of things from the outset. The current blogroll only includes a small selection of people right now. We obviously hope to expand this list in the future, but any additions

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_51 doesn't offer upgrade from snv_49

2006-11-08 Thread Menno Lageman
Hello opensolaris-discuss, I had to re-install to snv_51 on my x64 workstation. Installer didn't offer upgrade option - :((( Did you have any zones configured perhaps? If zones are present you won't be presented with the Upgrade option. Menno

Re: [osol-discuss] Obsolete Solaris kernel parameters

2006-06-01 Thread Menno Lageman
. But it is only there for compatibilty reasons so you really should be using project.max-msg-ids... HTH Menno -- Menno Lageman | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems | http://blogs.sun.com/menno ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Obsolete Solaris kernel parameters

2006-06-01 Thread Menno Lageman
the appropriate resource control to the project Oracle runs in. An example of how to do that can be found at page 24 of this BluePrint http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0505/819-2679.pdf. Menno -- Menno Lageman | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems | http://blogs.sun.com/menno

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Summer of Code: Call for OpenSolaris Participation

2006-04-17 Thread Menno Lageman
Michael Pogue wrote: I have a suggestion: in another current thread, Build times for Open Solaris, there's discussion about build parallelism on a Niagara (T1000), and how we don't get much benefit in build time beyond 4 CPUs. I just retracted that statement... It does improve with more

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Build times for Open Solaris....

2006-04-17 Thread Menno Lageman
Holger Berger wrote: I think one part of this jigsaw is the disk bottleneck. If you build ON on a tmpfs volume you should have a far better CPU utilisation on Niagara. Nothing beats real data, so I ran a nightly on a tmpfs file system with max jobs = 32. The build time decreases from 1:53

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Build times for Open Solaris....

2006-04-14 Thread Menno Lageman
I happen to have access to a T2000 (1 GHz, 32 strands) for a couple of days, so I ran a nightly of on20050327: Nightly distributed build completed: Thu Apr 13 22:17:16 CEST 2006 Total build time real2:26:51 This was with the default max concurrent jobs = 4. Increasing

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Resource Management

2006-02-24 Thread Menno Lageman
technical efforts might generate separate projects. Excellent idea, count me in. Menno -- Menno Lageman | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems | http://blogs.sun.com/menno ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss