Re: [osol-discuss] T1 processor

2008-02-12 Thread Victor Feng
Well, I found out more about. As long as the default scheduling class is set, the system can handle 32 single-thread processes. Victor This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] T1 processor

2008-02-12 Thread Victor Feng
I just tested out that with FSS this system is able to handle 32 processes with single thread. Victor This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] importance of zones

2008-02-11 Thread Victor Feng
I did a couple of tests, in most of tests, importance could not play its role. With following configuration, [EMAIL PROTECTED] zonecfg -z global info dedicated-cpu dedicated-cpu: ncpus: 2-20 importance: 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] zonecfg -z zoneA info dedicated-cpu dedicated-cpu:

Re: [osol-discuss] importance of zones

2008-02-06 Thread Victor Feng
One way to find out how many CPUs are allocated to each zone is prstat -Z based on CPU%. Is there any better way? Thanks Victor This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Zone capped-memory does not limit exactly

2008-02-06 Thread Victor Feng
I tried with locked:1G but Oracle opened. capped-memory: physical: 1G [swap: 7G] [locked: 1G] Oracle database took for a while to start up. The RSS size of the zone jumped around # prstat -Z ZONEIDNPROC SWAP RSS MEMORY TIME CPU ZONE 36 54 1824M

[osol-discuss] T1 processor

2008-02-05 Thread Victor Feng
It is a T2000 server with 8 cores. T1 processor does good for the system running process with multithreads. It seems to me that it can handle 1.5*number of core=1.5*8=12 processes with single thread. Is this formula correct for T1 processor? perl -e 'while (--$ARGV[0] and fork) {}; while ()

[osol-discuss] Zone capped-memory does not limit exactly

2008-02-04 Thread Victor Feng
Basically, the memory resource control for zone works. But it does not constrain the physical memory well. # prstat -Z ZONEIDNPROC SWAP RSS MEMORY TIME CPU ZONE 0 57 240M 310M 1.9% 0:04:03 0.1% global 11 32 162M 235M 1.4% 0:01:08 0.0% bighead The

[osol-discuss] importance of zones

2008-02-04 Thread Victor Feng
Given the importance of zones and some other info, is there any formula to calculate the number of CPUs that system will allocate to each zone? e.g. Following system has only two zones with dynamic pool service enabled. Total number of CPU in the system is 32. # zonecfg -z zoneA info

[osol-discuss] DTrace normalize

2008-01-09 Thread Victor Feng
profile:::tick-1sec /this-cnt == 10/ { normalize(@runq, 1); printa([EMAIL PROTECTED], @runq); exit(0); } The output is an integer, but I want a decimal, e.g. 7.4 instead of 7. How could I do that? Thanks Victor This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] 'find' can not find existing file in Sol10U3 Sparc

2007-09-21 Thread Victor Feng
There is a file UserPreferencesSettings.jsp in /mail/products/uwc/uwc/common/, but 'find' can not find it except when the search path is set as /mail/products/uwc/uwc/common/. user ls /mail/products/uwc/uwc/common/User* /mail/products/uwc/uwc/common/UserPreferencesPassword.jsp

Re: [osol-discuss] 'find' can not find existing file in Sol10U3 Sparc

2007-09-21 Thread Victor Feng
Never mind, it is linked in the middle. # pwd /mail/products/uwc # ls -l uwc lrwxrwxrwx 1 user staff 34 Sep 20 12:01 uwc - /var/mail/products/uwc/staging/uwc Victor This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss

[osol-discuss] ufs v.s. zfs submirror slice

2007-08-30 Thread Victor Feng
In a ufs volume with simple two-way mirror, after a submirror is detached, the data in its slice are accessible, i.e. we can mount that slice later, and access the data. But not for the submirror slice in a zfs pool. Victor This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] home: Permission denied

2005-09-01 Thread Victor Feng
Hi, all, This is brand new box with standard installation. O.S.5.9 9/04. Auto_home is on in auto_master file. Out of curiosity, why is the user not permitted to go to /export/home physically? [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /export [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls download home [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd home bash: cd:

RE: [osol-discuss] If a disk slice is part of mirror, can this slice be used directly?

2005-07-19 Thread Victor Feng
was prior to the disk slice being mirrored. Ours is Solaris 9 9/04. Looking at the commented entry in /etc/vfstab, #/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 - - swap - no -, I think that the machine is installed with Web Start or something. What is your experience or opinion on his opinion? Thanks Victor Feng

[osol-discuss] If a disk slice is part of mirror, can this slice be used directly?

2005-07-18 Thread Victor Feng
Our Solaris boxes were installed by vendor. I observed that: 1. Dump device: /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 (dedicated) 2. /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 is part of mirror /dev/md/dsk/d1 3. /dev/md/dsk/d1 is the swap See the following script for details. Questions: 1. I wonder why the vendor uses /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 as dump

[osol-discuss] Re: If a disk slice is part of mirror, can this slice be used directly?

2005-07-18 Thread Victor Feng
Thank you for your warning of savecore -L. I am going to do dumpadm -d swap. Victor This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: smpatch oddities

2005-07-05 Thread Victor Feng
I have same problem as you do. The smpatch worked for our Solaris 5.9 a week ago. But now it gives that error message. Have you figured it out? Victor This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] smpatch, response code was 500

2005-07-05 Thread Victor Feng
The smpatch analyze, smpatch download worked last week. Today, they always give error message response code was 500, and the log message says can not create cache downloader. We have four brand new Sun Solaris 9 boxes. Last week two of them were well patched using smpatch, and today these two