Re: [osol-discuss] Any news on the new release? snv_85/86?

2008-03-16 Thread Rocky
Pure update schedule assumption. For the times that I've been anxiously awaiting the next release, the schedule has held true. I haven't watched it very religiously however so I have no idea how accurate the schedule is. :) Lots of us here wishing and willing Sun to hurry up with their

Re: [osol-discuss] Any news on the new release? snv_85/86?

2008-03-15 Thread Rocky
If you look here - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ You'll see this - It is updated every other Friday. Under the Solaris Express Community Edition section. Assuming that is the release that you are looking for, b85 is due next Friday, the 21st of March. Good luck w/your

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

2008-03-15 Thread Rocky
How can 4GB be too much memory? I'd like to use as much as I want. If I want to use 64GB of RAM, then so be it. I have no problems on Windows using as much RAM as I want. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] Support for AMD 780G chipset? OMG!!!

2008-03-10 Thread Rocky
2. Modern graphic cards in idle, uses maybe like 33% or so, of max power i believe. For a 9800GT that probably uses 100-150W max, it translates to maybe 40W in idle? That is a lot in my opinion. The AMD chipset uses like 1W in idle. 33% and/or 40W is too high to be honest; but I read on a

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel SpeedStep support

2008-03-04 Thread Rocky
Rocky, I patched the Solaris CPU driver to enable bit 1 of the _PDC. Are you willing to give it a try? If it fixes the problem with your system, then I'll see about getting the fix integrated into Nevada. I've attached the driver and an install script. The driver is the 64-bit driver

Re: [osol-discuss] poweroff high CPU burn?

2008-02-28 Thread Rocky
Try always booting with kernel debugger enabled (add -k as kernel argument in grub). When it gets stuck see if F1-A key combo (on console) drops you into kernel debugger. If yes, then you can look around and get stack dump (among other useful info) for others to take a look. Thanks, I will

[osol-discuss] poweroff high CPU burn?

2008-02-25 Thread Rocky
Unfortunately the power-off command (init 5) only works in about 50% of cases on my snv_82 machine. I found that some of the power-saving features (HDD spin-down) cause some conflicts. Unfortunately in some cases when init 5 has succeeded in taking the computers power off, the system is left

Re: [osol-discuss] CIFS vs SAMBA for home NAS: Who is faster?

2008-02-11 Thread Rocky
I've not done any controlled testing, but I'm getting about ~45MB/sec from Vista x64 to snv_81 using CIFS over Gigabit Ethernet. I dragged a 20GB file across and rougly timed it. This test server currently has two 7200.11 750GB 32MB seagate drives in a ZFS mirror. This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel SpeedStep support

2008-02-11 Thread Rocky
Have you tried to upgrade bios ? I've tried F5, F6, F7, F8a beta, and F8b beta on the GA-G33M-DS2R :( This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel SpeedStep support

2008-02-11 Thread Rocky
ssdt_1_CpuPm.dsl contains the following ASL for \PR.CPU1: Scope (\_PR.CPU1) { Name (HI1, 0x00) Name (HC1, 0x00) Name (TLD1, 0x00) Method (_PDC, 1, NotSerialized) { CreateDWordField (Arg0, 0x08, CAP1) Store (CAP1, PDC1) If (LEqual

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel SpeedStep support

2008-02-11 Thread Rocky
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 and SpeedStep

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel SpeedStep support

2008-02-10 Thread Rocky
Rocky wrote: I'm getting the same messages, SpeedStep is enabled in the BIOS, I'm using an Intel Celeron E1200. Feb 8 22:34:06 unknown cpudrv: [ID 805513 kern.info] NOTICE: cpu_acpi: _PSS package not found. Feb 8 22:34:06 unknown cpudrv: [ID 978953 kern.warning] WARNING: cpu_acpi

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel SpeedStep support

2008-02-10 Thread Rocky
Attached is the .dsl files from above This message posted from opensolaris.org cpu0ist.dsl Description: Binary data cpu1ist.dsl Description: Binary data ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel SpeedStep support

2008-02-10 Thread Rocky
OK, work-around disussion forum, it's now allowing me. Attached is the output from iasl, and also the two outputs from acpidump for the two cases listed above. This message posted from opensolaris.org iasl.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel SpeedStep support

2008-02-10 Thread Rocky
Interesting. \_PR.CPU1._PSS just returns \_PR.CPU0._PSS. I've never seen this logic in any of the ACPI tables I've ever looked at before. This might be another ACPI related bug. Can you tar up all the files dumped by iasl and send them? I'm getting You are not allowed to edit this

Re: [osol-discuss] Intel SpeedStep support

2008-02-09 Thread Rocky
I'm getting the same messages, SpeedStep is enabled in the BIOS, I'm using an Intel Celeron E1200. Feb 8 22:34:06 unknown cpudrv: [ID 805513 kern.info] NOTICE: cpu_acpi: _PSS package not found. Feb 8 22:34:06 unknown cpudrv: [ID 978953 kern.warning] WARNING: cpu_acpi: error parsing _PSS for

Re: [osol-discuss] on/downloads/current/ is missing

2008-02-05 Thread Rocky
Derek Cicero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This link: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/ seems to have disappeared since the dlc came back up. We're looking into it. We now have the state from December 4th. Do you know where to get the last two months from? Jörg I'm