Re: [osol-discuss] Need help debuggin hang issue on build 134

2010-03-24 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Ronny, How are you getting the crash dump if your system is hung and you are not getting into kmdb? To get into kmdb, you need to type f1-a on the console (based on the addresses, you are on x64, not SPARC). max Ronny Egner wrote: HI all, cpuinfo -v yields (see file "cpuinfo.txt" ). I no

Re: [osol-discuss] Need help debuggin hang issue on build 134

2010-03-23 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
You might try ::cpuinfo -v in mdb on the dump to see what was running on the cpus at the time of the hang. max Brian Ruthven - Sun UK wrote: Ronny Egner wrote: ff008bfe0480 unix:die+dd () ff008bfe0590 unix:trap+177b () ff008bfe05a0 unix:cmntrap+e6 () ff008bfe0690 0 () ff0

Re: [osol-discuss] b134 freezes

2010-03-20 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
You could try making a copy of /etc/driver_aliases. Then "rem_drv atge" (you may need a reboot afterwards). Then see if the problem goes away. Also, try disabling nwam. That may stop the taskq thread(s) for atge. max Jouko Holopainen wrote: d8db3dc0::threadlist -v ADDR PROC

Re: [osol-discuss] b134 freezes

2010-03-20 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Jouko, You might try running mdb -k and see what is thread 0xd8db3dc0 using: d8db3dc0::threadlist -v Jouko Holopainen wrote: Situation improves ... after I disabled compression on the swap Firefox no longer hangs. At least yet.. Should I make a separate partition for it? The kernel freeze

[osol-discuss] Election

2010-02-04 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi, I have seen a lot of email about election grants, and how to make sure that you can vote in the upcoming election. But I can't find the constitutional rewrite that we are electing (in fact, I'm not sure who/what is being voted for/against), though there is a timetable for everything, and ve

Re: [osol-discuss] swap purge

2009-10-14 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Mike, The only book I can recommend is Solaris Modular Debugger Guide, at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5041?l=en If you look around a little, you'll probably find some good blog entries. Eric Schrock wrote a nice little puzzle a while ago (see http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/entry/mdb_pu

Re: [osol-discuss] swap purge

2009-10-14 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Mike DeMarco wrote: ::walk thread t | ::print kthread_t t_schedflag | ::grep "(.&1)==0" | ::eval < t=K | ::print kthread_t t_procp | ::print proc_t p_user.u_psargs p_user.u_psargs = [ "/lib/svc/bin/svc.configd" ] p_user.u_psargs = [ "/lib/svc/bin/svc.startd" ] p_user.u_psargs = [ "devfsadmd

Re: [osol-discuss] swap purge

2009-10-14 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Mike DeMarco wrote: mdb -k Loading modules: [ unix genunix specfs dtrace ufs sd mpt px md ip hook neti sctp arp nca fcp fctl emlxs cpc random crypto zfs wrsmd fcip ssd logindmux ptm sppp nfs lofs ipc ] ::walk thread t| ::print kthread_t t_schedflag | ::grep "(.&1)==0" | ::eval After ::

Re: [osol-discuss] swap purge

2009-10-14 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Mike DeMarco wrote: How do I know that the process is swapped out. Best answer I can give for this is that I don't. I have no tools that can tell me what processes are represented by the number that is in the "w" column in vmstat. I do know that once swap is hit this number will grow and stay

Re: [osol-discuss] swap purge

2009-10-14 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Mike, Mike DeMarco wrote: How do I know that the process is swapped out. Best answer I can give for this is that I don't. I have no tools that can tell me what processes are represented by the number that is in the "w" column in vmstat. I do know that once swap is hit this number will grow

Re: [osol-discuss] swap purge

2009-10-14 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
kill doesn't work? max Mike DeMarco wrote: looking for some kind of tool that will let me release the swap space consumed by a process that was swapped out and its parent died. There is no way for this process to get back on the stack and its carcass consumes unrecoverable swap space. _

Re: [osol-discuss] Very surprising performance results (at least to me)

2009-05-10 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi, Oops. I stupidly assumed the output file was /dev/null. Still, try adding "conv=ascii" to the dd commands. max Bruno Damour wrote: Jürgen Keil wrote: Dom0 amber ~ # uname -a SunOS amber 5.11 snv_113 i86pc i386 i86xpv amber ~ # /usr/gnu/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/tank/test count=10 512

Re: [osol-discuss] Very surprising performance results (at least to me)

2009-05-10 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi, Jürgen Keil wrote: Dom0 amber ~ # uname -a SunOS amber 5.11 snv_113 i86pc i386 i86xpv amber ~ # /usr/gnu/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/tank/test count=10 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 2.70782 s, 18.9 MB/s DomU : corwin bruno # uname -a Linux corwin 2.6.18-xen-r12 #7 SMP Fri May 8 10:41

Re: [osol-discuss] Question about (Open)Solaris VM - why is swap required?

2009-04-25 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi, Mike Gerdts wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Shawn Walker wrote: Anon Y Mous wrote: as we tested scaling and put more load on the servers (i.e. allowing Apache to spawn more children), we were surprised to see that the system doesn't tend to go below 8Gb (half) of the avail

[osol-discuss] Free kernel internals training from Bruning Systems

2009-04-02 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Bruning Systems and OSUNIX are hosting a free one day training course on kernel internals for developers. Limited positions are available. Learn more at http://sl.osunix.org/FreeKernelTrainingDay thanks, max ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list o

[osol-discuss] problems sending to opensolaris-discuss

2009-04-02 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi, Is anyone else having problems posting to osol-discuss? I notice that today there have been only 10 messages (thus far). I posted a couple of messages about 5 hours ago that are still not showing up. Let's see if this one makes it... thank you. max __

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Internals course description

2009-04-01 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi All, A course description for the OpenSolaris Internals course to be held in Warsaw, Poland May 4-8 is available at http://www.bruningsystems.com/page14/page13/page13.html. Any comments/suggestions are appreciated. thanks, max ___ opensolaris-di

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris Internals course announcement

2009-03-25 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Sternik . For detailed information on the course, please contact me at m...@bruningsystems.com. Please note that the course will be held subject to the number of people who enroll. Thanks, max ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] what kinds of situation will the read(fd, buf, cnt) return a negtive number?

2009-03-21 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
man -s2 read Read the sections on Return Values and Errors. max Ian mao wrote: Need the detailed situations. And is there any tool to trigger the read function failure? Thanks! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] regarding ptrace equivalent in solairs

2009-03-16 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
casper@sun.com wrote: hi,'m using the 5.11 kernel version on amd64 architecture, 32-bit. i need help on the following issues Forget about ptrace; use /proc. As a Solaris process has multiple threads of control, you can't change the registers using ptrace. You get the registers throug

[osol-discuss] opensolaris.org not responding

2009-03-03 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi, I would post this to website-discuss, except that I am not on that mailing list. To get on that mailing list, I need to get to opensolaris.org. www.opensolaris.org has timed out every time I have tried it today. I am having no problems with any other sites. thanks, max

Re: [osol-discuss] diagnosing server hang

2009-01-30 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Matt, Maybe this should be moved to mdb-discuss... My comments are at the end. Matt Harrison wrote: > Matt Harrison wrote: > >> m...@bruningsystems.com wrote: >> >>> Hi Matt, >>> >>> Matt Harrison wrote: >>> >>>>

Re: [osol-discuss] diagnosing server hang

2009-01-27 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Matt, Matt Harrison wrote: > Matt Harrison wrote: > >> thanks Ian, I'll look into this tomorrow. >> >> > > Well I'm not sure if it's good news or not. I've got the machine running > memtest86+ with the standard tests and so far it's done 2 passes (3 > hours runtime) without a single e

Re: [osol-discuss] migrating issues from SXCE to 2008.11

2009-01-11 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Matt, Matt Harrison wrote: > m...@bruningsystems.com wrote: >> Hi Matt, >> >> Matt Harrison wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've got a filer using SXCE installed and I'm thinking about >>> migrating to OpenSolaris due mainly t

Re: [osol-discuss] migrating issues from SXCE to 2008.11

2009-01-11 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Matt, Matt Harrison wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a filer using SXCE installed and I'm thinking about migrating > to OpenSolaris due mainly to the improved pkg command. > > I've tried testing it on VMware (6.0.0 build-45731) but there is an > immediate problem. > > The install went fine but o

Re: [osol-discuss] Linux/FreeBSD/(Open)Solaris survey paper

2008-09-20 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Philip, I also wrote an article that is a lot more detailed, but aimed at application developers, not kernel people, per se. It can be found at: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/solaris_linux_app.html Have fun! max Philip Torchinsky wrote: > Stefan, > > yes, this is close to what