Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-23 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I lost my snapshots on swap now. do I need them ? No, snapshots on a swap zvol are just a waste of disk space. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-23 Thread Bruno Damour
On 02/23/10 12:11 AM, david.co...@sun.com wrote: I've noticed that since b132 my laptop freezes under load. Just dies without any message other than "memory pressure, tcp defensive mode on". Probably short of memory. I've _only_ 1GB which used to be quite ok for a laptop. Are you certain it's

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-23 Thread dirk schelfhout
after 1 day : DOWNLOAD PKGS FILESXFER (MB) Completed 1591/1591 10557/10557 381.9/381.9 PHASEACTIONS Removal Phase10069/10069 Install Phase

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-22 Thread David . Comay
I've noticed that since b132 my laptop freezes under load. Just dies without any message other than "memory pressure, tcp defensive mode on". Probably short of memory. I've _only_ 1GB which used to be quite ok for a laptop. Are you certain it's actually frozen or just being *very* slow? If you

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-22 Thread B
Try single user mode---It definitely helps -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-22 Thread dirk schelfhout
stuck for sevrall hours trying to update from 132 to 133. ( macmini 1gb ) strangely top shows 0% swap. still saying : creating plan CPU states: 95.3% idle, 0.1% user, 4.6% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap Kernel: 40789 ctxsw, 153 trap, 949 intr, 1379 syscall, 74 flt, 296 pgin, 36 pgout Memory:

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-22 Thread Bruno Damour
On 02/21/10 05:29 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Jürgen Keil wrote: it freezes during the "Creating plan" when running pkg image-update, either from b131 be or b132 (I kept both). A "pkg" process that is using huge amounts of memory could explain this... The upgrade from previou

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread B
Well my machines have been running for about 4.5 hours in creating plan phase. Unfortunately didn't read the post about single-user mode until after starting the upgrade. I guess if they don't succeed or I get an error message, tomorrow I will try again in single user mode, Part of me wants to

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Bruno Damour
On 02/21/10 07:02 PM, Jürgen Keil wrote: Tried once again, it seems to freeze each time when there is about 4K ram left. Is that a 32- or a 64-bit system? 64-bit I do have 4G swap, almost not used at all. Hmm, that is unexpected. How did you watch swap space usage? swap -l

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Shawn Walker
On 02/21/10 03:58 PM, B wrote: Unfortunately my vm has already been running for quite some time at about only 1GB. I would have to stop the whole process to increase memory now. My notebook is not running in vm and only has 1GB, but so far it is a pretty miminal install, not much added beyond

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread B
Unfortunately my vm has already been running for quite some time at about only 1GB. I would have to stop the whole process to increase memory now. My notebook is not running in vm and only has 1GB, but so far it is a pretty miminal install, not much added beyond the basic build. If these two sy

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
> > A few data points, for those who are about to do > > this. On a single-CPU 2GB system I get: > > > > PID USERNAME NLWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE > TIMECPU COMMAND > root1 600 1231M 1131M sleep6:10 > 1.36% pkg > This system had lots of extra ips packages installed >

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
> Do you think that it will continue and complete the > update? My vm build is still in creating plan phase > but I can see/hear the hardrive reading and writing > and every once and a while I see the network icon > flicker... > > My notebook which was started earlier is doing the > same...Neither

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread B
Do you think that it will continue and complete the update? My vm build is still in creating plan phase but I can see/hear the hardrive reading and writing and every once and a while I see the network icon flicker... My notebook which was started earlier is doing the same...Neither is downloadi

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
> That is not good..Won't the machine just page to > compensate, though? That's what I've been observing, with a 1GB virtualbox guest and pkg image-update. It pages and is slow, but doesn't freeze. But in my experiment the pkg process size is ~ 650 - 700 mbyte. -- This message posted from opens

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread B
That is not good..Won't the machine just page to compensate, though? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
> A few data points, for those who are about to do > this. On a single-CPU 2GB system I get: > > PID USERNAME NLWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIMECPU COMMAND > 37 root1 600 1231M 1131M sleep6:10 1.36% pkg This system had lots of extra ips packages installed on top of th

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread B
Thanks for the update. I have 2 boxes running update now. Both have been in the creating plan phase for about 60 minutes. I wasn't sure if they were stuck or just renaming the files etc. Starting to get worried althoughI can hear the hard drives working One machine is running in a vm the ot

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
A few data points, for those who are about to do this. On a single-CPU 2GB system I get: load averages: 0.30, 0.27, 0.27; up 6+07:48:2120:10:07 120 processes: 119 sleeping, 1 on cpu CPU states: 91.6% idle, 0.4% user, 8.0% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap Kernel: 38225

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I just tried to pkg image-update a 64-bit b132 vbox guest. > 768 MB of memory, and 512 MB swap. It failed during > "Creating Plan" because the system was running out of > memory. With 1 GB of memory and 1 GB of swap the pkg image-update from b132 to b133 worked. The pkg process had a maximum p

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
> Tried once again, it seems to freeze each time when > there is about 4K ram left. Is that a 32- or a 64-bit system? > I do have 4G swap, almost not used at all. Hmm, that is unexpected. How did you watch swap space usage? swap -l ? I just tried to pkg image-update a 64-bit b132 vbox gue

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jürgen Keil wrote: >> it freezes during the "Creating plan" when running pkg image-update, >> either from b131 be or b132 (I kept both). > > A "pkg" process that is using huge amounts of memory could explain this... The upgrade from previous builds to 133 is known to make pkg use more memory tha

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Bruno Damour
On 02/21/10 04:35 PM, Jürgen Keil wrote: it freezes during the "Creating plan" when running pkg image-update, either from b131 be or b132 (I kept both). it freezes during the "evaluating SUNWgcc package" when trying to ugrade from gui I know the memory pressure msg is not directly related, but

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Bruno Damour
On 02/21/10 01:46 PM, Bruno Damour wrote: On 02/21/10 12:12 PM, Jürgen Keil wrote: I've noticed that since b132 my laptop freezes under load. Just dies without any message other than "memory pressure, tcp defensive mode on". Probably short of memory. I've _only_ 1GB which used to be quite ok for

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
> it freezes during the "Creating plan" when running pkg image-update, > either from b131 be or b132 (I kept both). > it freezes during the "evaluating SUNWgcc package" > when trying to ugrade from gui > > I know the memory pressure msg is not directly related, but I can see > the memory being e

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Bruno Damour
On 02/21/10 12:12 PM, Jürgen Keil wrote: I've noticed that since b132 my laptop freezes under load. Just dies without any message other than "memory pressure, tcp defensive mode on". Probably short of memory. I've _only_ 1GB which used to be quite ok for a laptop. AFAIK, the warning messag

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
> Same here with me - thought that it may be some > problem in the versions since 128a - but it happens > more often. with 133 not as often as with 132 but > yesterday 2 times. > > Thinkpad T61p with 4GB RAM - Virtualbox with win64 running . Do you always get the freezes when virtualbox wa

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I've noticed that since b132 my laptop freezes under > load. Just dies without any message other than > "memory pressure, tcp defensive mode on". > Probably short of memory. I've _only_ 1GB which used > to be quite ok for a laptop. AFAIK, the warning message is wrong. Although all memory is in

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Jürgen Keil
> I thought it was a problem with the graphics driver, but you are right > as soon as I start gdm the box dies and my remote ssh session are dead.. What graphics hardware is that? Intel video? Could be 6914386, which is not yet fixed in b133 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?b

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Andrew Watkins
I thought it was a problem with the graphics driver, but you are right as soon as I start gdm the box dies and my remote ssh session are dead.. I will try again to see if I can get any error messages... Only got 1GB! Same here with me - thought that it may be some problem in the versions sin

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Michael Widmann
Same here with me - thought that it may be some problem in the versions since 128a - but it happens more often. with 133 not as often as with 132 but yesterday 2 times. Thinkpad T61p with 4GB RAM - Virtualbox with win64 running . Freeze occurs in the same manner - tcp defensive mode on

[osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-20 Thread Bruno Damour
Hello, I've noticed that since b132 my laptop freezes under load. Just dies without any message other than "memory pressure, tcp defensive mode on". Probably short of memory. I've _only_ 1GB which used to be quite ok for a laptop. Now trying to upgrade to b133 and hoping for the best, it just di