On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Ray Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> tcook, > > You bring up a good point. exponentially slow is very different from > crashed, though they may have the same net effect. Also that other factors > like timeouts would come into play. > > Regarding services, I am new to administering "modern" solaris, and that is > on my learning curve. My immediate need is simply a dumb file server. 3 or > 4 MB/sec would be adequate for my needs (marginal and at times annoying, but > adequate). If you expect it to be slow, it does work quite nicely without > compression. I have to use what I have. In the meantime, perhaps my stress > tests will also serve to expose issues. > > Regarding the GUI, I don't know how to disable it. There are no virtual > consoles, and unlike older versions of SunOS and Solaris, it comes up in XDM > and there is no [apparent] way to get a shell without running gnome. I am > sure that there is, but again, I come from the BSD/SunOS/Linux line, and > have not learned the ins and outs of Nevada/Indiana yet. I had hoped to put > up a simple installation serving up disks and learns details later. There > are several 60~90MB gnome apps evidently pre-loaded - even a 45MB clock! > Wow. > > Interestingly, the "size" fields under "top" add up to 950GB without > getting to the bottom of the list, yet it shows NO swap being used, and > 150MB free out of 768 of RAM! So how can the size of the existing processes > exceed the size of the virtual memory in use by a factor of 2, and the size > of total virtual memory by a factor of 1.5? This is not the resident size - > this is the total size! > > News Flash! It has come out of it, and is moving along now at 2 MB/sec. > GUI is responsive with an occasional stutter. It was going through a > directory structure full of .mp3 and .flac files. Perhaps the gzip > algorithm gets hung up in the data patterns they create. > -- > Assuming you're running opensolaris: pfexec svcadm disable gdm
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