[zones-discuss] Zone Not Starting Properly?

2011-12-01 Thread Derek McEachern
Have a peculiar problem that I haven't seen before. When starting a system that has about 35 - 40 zones on it occasionally we see that one of the zones doesn't come up properly. You can log into the zone but none of the /etc/rc3.d scripts have been run. /var/adm/messages is completely empty and

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Not Starting Properly?

2011-12-01 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
for 30-40 zone what are the main host ram? and what kind of CPU? and how many CPU? was everything on ZFS? what are the storage/HDD for zone root? regards On 12/1/2011 11:39 AM, Derek McEachern wrote: Have a peculiar problem that I haven't seen before. When starting a system that has about 35

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Not Starting Properly?

2011-12-01 Thread Derek McEachern
System has 72GB RAM xeon cpu - 2 socket - 4 core - 16 thread zonereoot is on ufs filesystem on it's own drive, separate from OS. Derek On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D. laot...@gmail.com wrote: for 30-40 zone what are the main host ram? and what kind of

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Not Starting Properly?

2011-12-01 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 10:39AM, Derek McEachern wrote: Have a peculiar problem that I haven't seen before. When starting a system that has about 35 - 40 zones on it occasionally we see that one of the zones doesn't come up properly. You can log into the zone but none of the /etc/rc3.d scripts

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Not Starting Properly?

2011-12-01 Thread Derek McEachern
Thanks Mike. The more I look at this more I think it is load related. svcs -x only shows that the LP print server is not running which I don't think has any impact on what I'm seeing. As for who not reporting what I would expect I tracked that down to someone installing the gnu tools in

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Not Starting Properly?

2011-12-01 Thread Ian Collins
On 12/ 2/11 06:07 AM, Derek McEachern wrote: System has 72GB RAM xeon cpu - 2 socket - 4 core - 16 thread zonereoot is on ufs filesystem on it's own drive, separate from OS. That (UFS) is a strange choice for a recent Solaris 10 version. You loose the useful zones/ZFS features such as

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Not Starting Properly?

2011-12-01 Thread Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.
it seems that you could 1)improve your rc script to check the other dependence for apache or 2)use SMF for apache that check other dependence my 2c On 12/1/2011 1:33 PM, Derek McEachern wrote: Thanks Mike. The more I look at this more I think it is load related. svcs -x only shows that the

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Not Starting Properly?

2011-12-01 Thread Ian Collins
On 12/ 2/11 05:39 AM, Derek McEachern wrote: Have a peculiar problem that I haven't seen before. When starting a system that has about 35 - 40 zones on it occasionally we see that one of the zones doesn't come up properly. You can log into the zone but none of the /etc/rc3.d scripts have been

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Not Starting Properly?

2011-12-01 Thread Derek McEachern
Random zone. We've been testing to see if there is a threshold of trying to start too many in parallel but so far we don't see anything. We saw the problem trying to start 3 zones in parallel but it was very intermittent. Like 1 out of every 4 tries at started all 40 zones we would see 1

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Not Starting Properly?

2011-12-01 Thread Derek McEachern
I agree, our script could certainly be improved to add logic to check for these failures and handle them which we will probably end up doing. Derek On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D. laot...@gmail.com wrote: it seems that you could 1)improve your rc script

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Not Starting Properly?

2011-12-01 Thread Derek McEachern
We haven't made the jump to zfs yet :-) We do loose some useful features but haven't spent the time to port our stuff over to use zfs. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 12/ 2/11 06:07 AM, Derek McEachern wrote: System has 72GB RAM xeon cpu - 2 socket - 4

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Not Starting Properly?

2011-12-01 Thread Ian Collins
On 12/ 2/11 10:30 AM, Derek McEachern wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Ian Collins i...@ianshome.com mailto:i...@ianshome.com wrote: On 12/ 2/11 05:39 AM, Derek McEachern wrote: Have a peculiar problem that I haven't seen before. When starting a system that has

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Not Starting Properly?

2011-12-01 Thread Ian Collins
On 12/ 2/11 10:36 AM, Derek McEachern wrote: We haven't made the jump to zfs yet :-) We do loose some useful features but haven't spent the time to port our stuff over to use zfs. Make the jump sooner rather than later or you will flounder on Solaris 11. -- Ian.