Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> Jaap Spies 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.
>>>
>
> Great. If you have a bit of time, I'd be interested if you can exhaust its RAM
> or something else. It will be quite slow compared to a modern machine, 
> although
> it is about twice as fast as 't2' for single threaded tasks. But for parallel
> code, 't2' will be considerably faster than this machine.
>

Not tonight. My timezone is UTC+1, so I really have to call it a day! You too,
I suppose.

See you,

Jaap


> Sage was started with
>
> ulimit='-v 500000'
>
> which I believe limits the memory to 500 MB. I assume that is for a single 
> user
> or single process.
>
> There is 6 GB RAM allocated to the zone.
>
>


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