Re: [zones-discuss] Missing SMF for rcapd?

2012-04-20 Thread Peter Tribble
pd is not active > root@sct-jordi-01:~# svcs -a | grep -i cap > > So... If I have the proper package installed (SUNWrcapu), where is the SMF > for the rcapd? In the SUNWrcapr package. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ __

Re: [zones-discuss] zonestat, prstat -Z, and cpu accounting

2010-07-30 Thread Peter Tribble
y the"in-the-zone" children would > bubble up to a parent in the global zone.  This would certainly be wrong. Well, how common are zone-entered processes? And how should they be accounted for anyway? (What sort of examples do we have?) Thanks! -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribbl

[zones-discuss] zonestat, prstat -Z, and cpu accounting

2010-07-27 Thread Peter Tribble
at collects cpu for child processes that exit, so why can't that be used instead of monkeying about with extended accounting? What am I overlooking here? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-disc

Re: [zones-discuss] how dynamic is your zones network configuration?

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Tribble
ra IP addresses to a zone, using ifconfig to add them on the fly and zonecfg so they stick at boot. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] S8 containers and application compatibility

2010-02-21 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > I've been looking at the feasibility of using S8 containers to replace > some truly > antiquated hardware. However, evaluation has (apparently - I'm still trying to > establish the details) uncovered a snag. > >

[zones-discuss] S8 containers and application compatibility

2010-02-15 Thread Peter Tribble
there are compatibility problems, where do I need to start turning over rocks? Thanks, (and apologies for the vagueness) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Do sparse root zones share pages of inherited files in the page cache?

2009-10-03 Thread Peter Tribble
in OpenSolaris, that might catch some folks by surprise. For me, it's not just the memory savings. It's the fact that I can modify the shared filesystems in the global zone and have the changes immediately visible in the zones that can be convenien

[zones-discuss] The mists of time

2009-10-03 Thread Peter Tribble
to 2.5 (that I've come across so far) - and they're going to be the hardest to deal with. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Using zones for simple usage

2009-07-16 Thread Peter Tribble
the global zone? One thing I've found to be true though: either a machine is all zoned, or not. It gets horribly confusing to have real activity in the global zone, where you can half see the non-global zones, so if you have zones on a machine then it's easier to run nothing in the glob

Re: [zones-discuss] cli zone configuration

2009-06-12 Thread Peter Tribble
mmit And then do zonecfg -z zone_name -f input_file (What I actually do is have a skeleton input file for each type of zone that has parameter substitution run on it to create the above input file, but any mechanism to build up the file would do.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.

Re: [zones-discuss] Virtualization performance

2009-06-06 Thread Peter Tribble
fficient, so you can drive the system in different ways. You just need to keep sizing in mind. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] df -Z behaviour in global Zone

2009-06-05 Thread Peter Tribble
e ngz nfs mounts? That's why df does ignore nfs mounts by default and you have the -Z option to force it to go look. I've not yet come across a case where df -Z has told me anything useful - what problem are you trying to solve by running df -Z? -- -Peter T

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Tribble
ically I've seen manifest import take longer, although that's been getting quicker as well. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Tribble
ou run that can make a huge difference. If you're running multi-gigabyte java apps then it gets lost in the noise.) I presume that zone clones get you quite a lot of the sharing back. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ __

Re: [zones-discuss] pkg install AMP in a sparse zone

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Tribble
hey have other capabilities you can leverage. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones

2008-11-14 Thread Peter Tribble
module, others clearly can't. Yet some of the information could just be stored in kstats, which would make getting at it much easier. I think what I'm saying is this: what can zonestat tell us about what additional kstats should be kept, and what additional APIs would be useful to make

Re: [zones-discuss] Interfaces to automate zone system

2007-11-19 Thread Peter Tribble
configure name services in global > zone, then exported this configuration (using nscfg) into a file and > later imported this file (again, using nscfg) into your non-global > zone(s). > > Would that work for you? Butting in here, it would work just fine for me. -- -Peter Tribble

Re: [zones-discuss] New blog entry on zones,

2007-09-29 Thread Peter Tribble
d with snoop seems a bit long winded to me. I work out which host a zone is on using 'arp -a' - the zones on that machine, including the global zone, have SP in the Flags column. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___

Re: [zones-discuss] ps -Z is broken

2007-09-29 Thread Peter Tribble
ers are right-justified. I'm tempted to push this to the right as well. And should the username truncation problem be addressed as well? (And if so, done as part of this or separately?) I presume this is the web page mentioned earlier: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/c

Re: [zones-discuss] ps -Z is broken

2007-09-28 Thread Peter Tribble
nameservice, so that the uid-username mapping is consistent and if you run ps/top/prstat/whatever in the global zone then the usernames reported are accurate. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zone

Re: [zones-discuss] ps -Z is broken

2007-09-28 Thread Peter Tribble
zone names. Which was the result of one of the bug reports I mentioned initially. If you're going to have to do that, why have the -Z flag at all? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] ps -Z is broken

2007-09-26 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/26/07, Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:19:07PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > > I've just noticed something else. If you have an 8-character username > > it runs into the zone name in the output on S10. On nevada 69

Re: [zones-discuss] ps -Z is broken

2007-09-26 Thread Peter Tribble
On 9/26/07, Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:52:29PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > Isn't this as easy as changing the format specifier from %8.8s to %8s? > > > > OK, so then the columns don't line up. How much is t

[zones-discuss] ps -Z is broken

2007-09-26 Thread Peter Tribble
nt, as the current output simply isn't useful.) (The same is true of usernames, which also get truncated. That's bad as well, but at least you can see the history there as usernames have traditionally been limited to 8 characters, but zone names can and often are much longer.)