On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Jaap Spies <[email protected]> wrote: > Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> I've just set this Sage 4.2.1 server up. >> >> It's on my home computer, on a slow network, so performance wont be great. >> The >> machine is also 8 years old, so don't expect miracles from it! >> >> It is running on Solaris 10 update 7, in a zone, so nobody can't bring down >> my >> system, even if someone manages to hack it and get root access. >> >> (Zones are quite different to VirtualBox. They run the same operating >> system, as >> the host, and share many files. But their overhead is very small. About 40 MB >> RAM and even dozens of zones will use< 1% CPU time on a fast machine. >> VirtualBox does not support the SPARC processor, whereas Zones run on SPARC >> too). >> >> >> I've limited this zone to one 1200 MHz CPU, 6 GB RAM and 4 GB swap. >> >> http://213.78.42.15:8000 >> >> I'd just be interested if it functional. >> > > It works for me. I could make an account and log in! > > Great! > >> My hope is to build Sage on 't2' soon and put that in a zone. >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6595 >> >> needs resolving before we can really say we have a useful Solaris port, but I >> believe we are very close. >> > > Good work.
I just put some effort into 6595, which resulted in a patch and the statement: "This one patch (sagelib_6595.patch) makes it so at least c_lib builds fine using CC... by fixing at least two potentially *major* bugs in c_lib. Here's to porting/portability/multiple compilers/not ignoring warnings, etc! And to Kirkby's persistence." William -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
