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. > > -- 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
