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 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.
The same zone, or a random one?
What happens if you halt one or more zones before rebooting? Is
there a threshold where the problem begins to occur?
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 failure. We ran some tests starting 10 zones in parallel
and so far no errors. Our assumption was that if it was load related
moving from 3 to 10 zones we would see problems.
I have several systems that start 10 or more zones and I've never seen
any problems.
I agree with the comment elsewhere that you should be using SMF rather
than rc scripts to start services.
It is also possible to create SMF services with the appropriate
dependencies to start your zones in the correct order.
--
Ian.
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