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
>


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