William Stein wrote: > 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." >
+1 to that! Dave keep up the good work! Jaap > 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
