[osol-discuss] NVIDIA driver: multiple monitor configuration retention
I am running a multiple monitor configuration on my b133 workstation. Using the nvidia-settings control panel, I can set the second monitor up properly (it's detected and set with the proper resolution automatically). However, after reboot, Osol always activates only the first (primary) monitor, and I have to manually switch the second one on. I can run nvidia-settings as su from a terminal, but that doesn't help; the configuration never persists through a reboot. Does anyone else have this problem? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] NVIDIA driver: multiple monitor configuration retention
Works perfectly; thanks for the tip! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Bordeaux 2.0.2 for Solaris and OpenSolaris Released
I had a bit of trouble getting Bordeaux working, so I figure I'd share what i had to do to make this work. Unfortunately, the support forum at Bordeaux itself is completely moribund, with people (myself included) going several months without hearing from them. And the documentation doesn't really tell you enough, either. In principle, you should be able to just download the bordeaux-solaris.x86.sh program and run it from the command line. At least with my installation of OpenSolaris (build 133, but this has been true since at least b127), it doesn't work, because of some funny tar options. Instead, you must run: bordeaux-solaris.x86.sh --keep This will make a subdirectory ./temp/, and you have to edit the ./temp/bordeaux-installer file and change tar to gtar. Then the installer works. I'd also recommend running the program bordeaux-setup from the command line (it's in /opt/bordeaux/bin) so that you can watch what it's doing. And make sure to run this as a regular user (not as root) otherwise the right files don't get setup properly in your home directory. A couple of comments: Bordeaux is still a bit rough around the edges, and the interface from the menus (if it installs; mine still isn't working quite right after I uninstalled it once) is not very intuitive. Also, when I download the latest version, I still get Bordeaux 2.0.0, not 2.0.2, so hopefully they fix that soon. That being said, you can get IrfanView and Quicktime 6.5.2 working with just a few clicks (once you've done the above), and that makes it worth the $25 price by a mile. I work with a lot of 3D TIFF images, and Irfanview is simply the best; and the Fluendo codecs don't play Sorenson-encoded QuickTime video. And you only have to click in Bordeaux to install these two programs; you don't have to download them separately (which, particularly in the case of QuickTime, is a major pain). So I'd ultimately recommend the product in terms of its technical capabilities---it really does work---but the user interface, and interaction with the company, leave a little bit to be desired. Hopefully these instructions will be of some use to others who might get stuck. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Bordeaux 2.0.2 for Solaris and OpenSolaris Released
Thanks for the quick reply. As I said, I still recommend the program---because it works and its capabilities are otherwise unavailable. As for the install, I did have to change tar to gtar on my standard OpenSolaris installation, for reasons I don't know. Also, do you have a script to do a completely clean uninstall? I tried to uninstall the menus, which left one item left. I manually deleted this in gnome, and now I can't reinstall the menus. I'd like to pull everything out completely, and just start over. A quick question on flash player: can you get the beta 10.1b3 release working? The reason that I ask is about GPU acceleration. There is much better GPU acceleration in the Windows version that doesn't appear in Linux (at least) because the video acceleration isn't standard (there's a bunch of posts on that at Adobe Labs). I don't know enough of the details to understand how Bordeaux/Wine talks to the GPU in OpenSolaris, but if you could get the Windows flash player with full GPU acceleration to give you the same (or similar) performance on OpenSolaris, that would be a stunning technical achievement. FlashPlayer 10 is (thankfully) working properly on OpenSolaris, but its GPU acceleration is limited, and video performance is certainly less than that on Windows (when I reboot and use FlashPlayer 10.1beta. I'm not sure if Adobe plans to spend much time on full GPU acceleration on OpenSolaris, since I think their perception is that the market is small, so if we could use Bordeaux to circumvent this with Windows versions (as opposed to using VirtualBox or something else, which isn't that fast), that would be spectacular! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] WriteBack versus SSD-ZIL
According to Sun, you want to make sure you use an SLC SSD for a ZIL, which are a bit more expensive than the more-common MLC drives. There's the Intel X25-E, and then the OCZ Agility EX and OCZ Vertex EX. Those are about the only ones I know that have any significant presence in the market---but none is less than about $400. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Why im not staying with Opensolaris
At the risk of getting my own head bitten off: One the one hand, your message should be a good indication of how OpenSolaris affects brand new users. It's not Linux, and that's a good thing in many ways. What you need to realize is that getting all of the user interface tweaks correct is not the top priority for the development, and if you look at the incremental improvements in OpenSolaris over the last few years, it dwarfs everything else out there (Windows, Mac and Linux are not much improved over the last year or two). Have a little patience with the user interface (it took me months to get smart enough to ask on this forum how to fix my video driver so my dual-monitor setup persisted through a reboot; in both Windows and Linux this was automatically taken care of---so I feel your frustration). Eventually I'd expect everything to get fixed properly. However, your last sentence, more than anything else, points out what you're missing. There is no partition table editor in the installer because OpenSolaris, by default, uses ZFS. This is an entirely superior solution in so many deep ways, compared to the partition-based mess in almost any other operating system. ZFS is good enough reason to use OpenSolaris alone; watch some of the movies online (there was a 3-part super-long video by Jeff Bonwick at a storage conference last year, that shows in great detail its power). Compare its power to the mess that Linux is going through, with the performance and security of the EXT4 filesystem, and you'll see that OpenSolaris has a very different approach, and it's better. There are other superior features that others on this forum know far more about than I do. In my experience, Ubuntu breaks every time I auto-update the Linux kernel, and I have to do a manual command-line-based video driver re-install. This is an enormous pain. OpenSolaris has snapshots and boot environments, that allow easy rollbacks to the exact state before updates, and nothing has ever really broken on an upgrade, even in the development version. You'll find that the code quality is much higher, and there is a lot less stuff that breaks. If you think the OpenSolaris is basically Linux with different colors in the background, you're missing the point. Have a little patience and poke around a bit, and you may find that some of its capabilities are light-years ahead of anything else out there. No question that the user interface is a bit of the rough side, and it's a bit of pain at the outset. It's a bit like a racetrack-optimized Porsche that happens to be street-legal. You won't have an iPod-plugin and a huge sound system, but it will go faster around the track than a minivan that has a few more creature comforts. I'd encourage you to take a look a little more deeply, and you may find that the unique capabilities available will outweigh the inconvenience of some quirks in the user interface... just my two cents... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] When will opensolaris fix the poweroff problem?
I have the same problem, except it's sporadic: sometimes it powers off; other times it just gets to the filesystem sync message and sits there. There seems to be no consistent pattern when it does the physical power off and when it doesn't I would definitely be nice for this to be fixed! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] When will opensolaris fix the poweroff problem?
Plain-vanilla Dell Precision Workstation T7500; I also installed Osol on my older Precision Workstation 690. Same thing---inevitably sporadic power-off... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [zones-discuss] Nero Linux in zones
Thanks for your message. I tried to download and install this, but there kept appearing more packages that I didn't have, had to download, and install. Eventually it was one i couldn't find (gdk-pixbuf-config). I think in the bigger picture this is one of the things holding back broader adoption. As much as I love OpenSolaris and ZFS, there's maybe not enough resources to make this a bit easier to use. Everything has to be a bit of a chore. For doing stuff like setting up proper ZFS filesystems, it's fair to expect the user to need to invest some time learning. zpool is such a powerful tool, allowing so many new things, that it requires some education. But, c'mon: CD burning? This problem was solved a decade ago. I like Nero, because I can aggregate various directories, click twice, and my DVD comes out verified five minutes later. The idea that i have to track down packages, or deal with Brasero (which I'm sure can be configured; I just don't want to spend the time for something that I already know how to do otherwise), just raises the barrier unnecessarily for people who want to try out OpenSolaris, get it working, and then explore its compelling new features. People are rightfully worried about the future of OpenSolaris, but by having some basic things be so difficult and time-consuming, just to get the basics of usability running, only exacerbate the problem by limiting adoption. So I reiterate my question: has anyone gotten Nero Linux to run in a Zone, and if so, what's the best way to set it up? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] [zones-discuss] Nero Linux in zones
I'm frankly a little shocked by the some of the attitude against people wanting existing tools that work on other platforms. There are plenty of reasons I use OpenSolaris, primarily ZFS and managing very large scientific data sets. I have no real other choice if I want file security and deduplication. So it's not as though i can't manage a command line. It's just a waste of time to learn new tools to do really mundane tasks---if there's a way to get the existing tools to work. At its core, that's the reason that the gnu tools are available, when the Solaris-based originals have similar functionality but different options. No one wants to waste time learning new things that just do what they already know how to do. Can someone tell me how one can easily back up files from a dozen different directories on different file systems, to a CD or DVD easily with a command-line based tool? This strikes me as inherently difficult, and the reason that they invented graphical file browsers in the first place. I don't care much about Nero, but a CLI-only burning tool doesn't strike me as easy when your starting files are spread out all over the place. (And no, I don't want to make a separate folder with all of the files; or burn an .iso first---all these steps take more time, and I just want to assemble the relevant files in a window, and start the burn, and have it verify the data at the end). Forget about Nero, but in this day and age, there should be a decent graphical burning tool (just as no one would argue we should get rid of Nautilus for file browsing). The command-line just isn't the best tool for this job. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Trying to recover rpool space after multiple updates
I'm running my rpool on a single 60GB SSD (OCZ Agility EX). I have updated maybe half a dozen times (from snv128 to snv134). I had a virtualbox disk on there, which I have since removed. However, the OS seems to be occupying 50 GB, which must include a bunch of old files that are not being used. Here's the result of rpool 51.4G 7.88G 84.5K /rpool rpool/ROOT 34.4G 7.88G21K legacy rpool/ROOT/snv_133 17.3M 7.88G 23.5G / rpool/ROOT/snv_134 34.4G 7.88G 7.28G / rpool/dump 5.00G 7.88G 5.00G - rpool/export6.75G 7.88G23K /export rpool/export/home 6.75G 7.88G23K /export/home rpool/export/home/plu 6.75G 7.88G 1.60G /export/home/plu rpool/swap 5.11G 12.9G 99.9M - When I did the first installation, it must have only taken something like 20 or 30 GB, and I'd like to get the space back for performance reasons. Does someone have a list of standard places to look, to delete old unused files and such, particularly from previous versions? Many thanks in advance! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Trying to recover rpool space after multiple updates
Thanks for the tip, particularly about making it automatic! I'd been keeping up with deleting packages and destroying old boot environments, and removed the old virtual disk files in .Virtualbox from my home directory. But I think there's still something like 10-20 GB of junk spread around, unless I'm completely missing something. Given that I have 10 GB of RAM, are there any recommendations on sizing /swap? Is there any reason to keep /swap and /dump on the SSD? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Help with slow zfs send | receive performance within the same box.
I've today set up a new fileserver using EON 0.600 (based on SNV130). I'm now copying files between mirrors, and the performance is slower than I had hoped. I am trying to figure out what to do to make things a bit faster in terms of performance. Thanks in advance for reading, and sharing any thoughts you might have. SYstem (brand new today): Dell Poweredge T410. Intel Xeon E5504 5.0 GHz (Core i7-based) with 4 GB of RAM. I have one zpool of four 2-TB Hitachi Deskstar SATA drives. I used the SATA mode on the motherboard (not the RAID mode, because I don't want the motherboard's RAID controller to do something funny to the drives). Everything gets recognized, and the EON storage install was just fine. I then configured the drives into an array of two mirrors, made with zpool create mirror (drives 1 and 2), then zpool add mirror (drives 3 and 4). The output from zpool status is: state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM hextb_data ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1d0ONLINE 0 0 0 c1d1ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 c2d0ONLINE 0 0 0 c2d1ONLINE 0 0 0 This is a 4TB array, initially empty, that I want to copy data TO. I then added two more 2 TB drives that were an existing pool on an older machine. I want to move about 625 GB of deduped data from the old pool (the simple mirror of two 2 TB drives that I physically moved over) to the new pool. The case can accommodate all six drives. I snapshotted the old data on the 2 TB array, and made a new filesystem on the 4 TB array. I then moved the data over with: zfs send -RD data_on_old_p...@snapshot | zfs recv -dF data_on_new_pool Here's the problem. When I run iostat -xn, I get: extended device statistics r/sw/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 70.00.0 6859.40.3 0.2 0.22.12.4 5 10 c3d0 69.80.0 6867.00.3 0.2 0.22.22.4 5 10 c4d0 20.0 68.0 675.1 6490.6 0.9 0.6 10.06.6 22 32 c1d0 19.5 68.0 675.4 6490.6 0.9 0.6 10.16.7 22 33 c1d1 19.0 67.2 669.2 6492.5 1.2 0.7 13.87.8 28 36 c2d0 20.2 67.1 676.8 6492.5 1.2 0.7 13.97.8 28 37 c2d1 The OLD pool is the mirror of c3d0 and c4d0. The NEW pool is the striped set of mirrors involving c1d0, c1d1, c2d0 and c2d1. The transfer started out a few hours ago at about 3 MB/sec. Now it's nearly 7 MB/sec. But why is this so low? Everything is deduped and compressed. And it's an internal transfer, within the same machine, from one set of hard drives to another, via the SATA controller. Yet the net effect is very slow. I'm trying to figure out what this is, since it's much slower than I would have hoped. Any and all advice on what to do to troubleshoot and fix the problem would be quite welcome. Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] thanks to all who helped choochoo with OSOL message to Oracle/ Sun
If Oracle /Sun truly desire Open Solaris or Solaris to be a viable alternative to Windows and expand their userbase and financial bottom line I don't see how Oracle / Sun is really going to expand its bottom line by spending a huge amount of money supporting an end-user operating system that is given away FOR FREE. Just where is the revenue supposed to come from? Mac and Windows, which together have well over 90% market share, cost money to buy. That pays for the development, and end-user support. As much as we all love Linux, its adoption is still in the single-digit percentage range. Canonical and Red Hat have ways to make money, but neither is anywhere close to knocking off Apple or Microsoft. Not by a longshot. I don't think most people (oracle especially) are interested in solaris/opensolaris replacing the home user/end user operating system. I'm not saying you can't use it for that purpose; just as there's nothing preventing you from using Windows as an apache server Actually, if you buy standard supported hardware (I have a Dell Precision Workstation), it can work like a charm out of the box. I had a slightly frustrating experience getting it up and running, because it is different from the Linux way of doing things, and it's not just command syntax, but whole concepts. Under the hood, however, I think people here would agree that the code quality and design are a bit better than Linux. ZFS, for example, is so incredibly powerful---but it's unlike any filesystem that you'll have seen if you only deal with Windows / Mac / Linux, where you have partitions that you explicitly manage. Yet the benefits of understanding it are enormous. I use OpenSolaris as my normal desktop, with WinXP running in VirtualBox. This is the best of both worlds: I have all of my Windows applications running, with ZFS underneath to ensure file protection, replication, deduplication and integrity. After having lost RAIDs over the years to bad cables, bad drives, and the worst, a bad controller card, that data security is worth a tremendous amount of time, money and hassle invested in getting the data infrastructure secured. I think what one must remember is that the design goals are different for these operating systems. This may lead to different typical usage, but I wouldn't go so far to say that OpenSolaris is worse than Ubuntu on the desktop experience, because you have to consider not just the initial install, but what happens when something breaks. And things seem to break a little more often for me in Ubuntu, even though it supports more hardware, than OpenSolaris. I think it's also clear that there has been far less investment in making it easier for people to understand why OpenSolaris is different from, and in which ways better than, Linux and Mac. Consider this an advertising issue; but again Oracle / Sun doesn't yet have a model whereby they will benefit financially in the short term by widespread adoption by end users and other people that don't have a specific interest in OpenSolaris features. There is, in my view, a great incentive for Oracle / Sun to continue to support the development of the OpenSolaris ecosystem. They can control and optimize it to work with Oracle's database, and sell a one-stop appliance box that allows complete optimization top-to-bottom. That will be worth a ton of money, and the security that ZFS and other tools provide are ideal. Finally, I'd hope that people would continue to be patient. Oracle's acquisition of Sun was an enormous undertaking, and it doesn't make sense that they would make release of dev versions of this one product their top priority. It also seems that they don't want to release anything they support as stable until it's ready. I wish Microsoft, Apple and Canonical all had the same commitment to quality. If you think it's terrible to wait a few months for news, I'd say it's far worse to clean up the mess left by code that isn't quite ready (like Ubuntu 9.10, which should have been delayed a month). And given that none of us really pay for anything, it's hard to argue that we have any real standing to complain. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] thanks to all who helped choochoo with OSOL message to Oracle/ Sun
Some more things that need to be done are: Not able to play videos and movies in the name of proprietary software Whoa. Have you seen Fluendo? I use it to play QuickTime and Flash, plus any MIcrosoft-based format I've ever encountered, and it works better on OpenSolaris than on Windows, in terms of start up speed, etc. Yes, it costs money (like $30), but then there's no way to get around some of the licensing restrictions. The end user experience is just fine. You just have to pay a little bit for the legal fees. need to be done apart from recognising network/internet settings automatically and recognizing ntfs,fat32 partitions automatically, This I completely agree with. You have to work a lot harder (with ntfs-3g, etc) to get native NTFS access than is really necessary. This is something that a good developer could fix in a few hours, just to make it easy. This really should have been done. It is better if miro and vlc players are available for opensolaris. The fluendo stuff works well with the Totem player included, at least for me. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle has Linux video codecs, so codecs for OSOL?
Is there something missing from what Fluendo offers? I use it for QuickTime, Flash, and everything Microsoft. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL
I'm wanting to fire up a new SSD for an L2ARC on a ZFS box I've put together, and was looking at some of the new drives. Many of the faster ones, with great read speeds, are SATA-6G compatible, and I'm wondering if any of you has gotten these cards to work. In particular, the Asus U3S6: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813995004 And the SIIG SC-SA0E12-S1: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816150028cm_re=sata_6g-_-16-150-028-_-Product Does anyone have an opinion, or some experience? Thanks in advance! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris/Opensolaris, for a Server, or Desktop?
Adding my two cents: I use OSOL as my everyday workstation OS. I prefer it to Ubuntu (very slightly, see below), and definitely over WinXP and Win7. One MAJOR reason is that it doesn't break. Ubuntu is always updating, and that reboot always involves a bit of nervousness until the login screen comes through unscathed. The kernel updates work particularly poorly with the NVIDIA driver, almost always requiring a manual driver re-install from the command line, which is a disaster from a usability perspective. As much as I like Ubuntu, it's just not perfect in terms of reliability (though I do have it as the default on my laptop, for every day surfing and stuff, but no heavy-duty computation). OSOL has NVIDIA 3D drivers, flash, all of the video codecs I've ever needed (though you have to pay Fluendo for the privilege), Acrobat, Bordeaux (which makes it transparent to run, gasp, MSOffice to deal with the crap that other people send me). WinXP in VirtualBox runs everything else, at similar speeds to native XP on a machine a few years ago (and I don't do too much hardcore performance stuff in WinXP, just mostly plotting and making illustrations, etc.). The other huge thing, which I think people discount, is the reliability of ZFS. I have paired mirrors everywhere, and to be able to run a WinXP app on top of ZFS storage is a huge, huge thing. Over the last 15 years, I've all manners of failures, from disk failures to controller cards corrupting the MFT, so I lost a big RAID 5 and had to have it recovered. So OSOL is right for me, right now. The major advantage to having fewer things supported (both hardware and applications) is that they tend to run a bit better. I really don't care if the OS supports a bunch of oddball, no-name hardware. It's not worth the testing time or risk; just tell me the parts that work, and I'll buy them. The hardware cost is far less than that of my own time. Yes, I wish certain applications (Skype, Intel Compiler, GPU CUDA) were supported, but Im willing to accept the stability and robustness in exchange for that flexibility; I can put Ubuntu and Windows on another disk or machine, when I need them. So, in fact, I think that some of the features that make OSOL a good server OS are the same ones that make it good on the desktop for me. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL
So I've tried both the ASUS U3S6, and the Koutech IO-PESA-A230R, recommended by the helpful blog: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10 In BOTH cases, the SSD appears in the card's BIOS screen at bootup, so that the card sees it and recognizes it properly. I'm running EON 0.60 (SNV130), and once I log in as root and run format, the SSD Is not there at all. I just wanted a cheap card to add to my server to run my SSD as an L2ARC, so nothing needs to be fancy. Is there anything I can do? I'm really stuck now... Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL
I'm running this in a Dell PowerEdge T410, 2 GHz Xeon (Core i7) with 8 GB of RAM. There are six 2TB drives attached to a Dell SAS 6i/R card, which are recognized just fine. I wanted to add the the SSD as an L2ARC, and am using the same PCIe SATA card that is running the CD-ROM drive (which boots EON, no problem). (there's no room on the SAS card). The motherboard has a silly Windows-only SATA / RAID controller. So I can only run the old ATA mode for the SSD drive if I use the onboard controller---and this kind of defeats the purpose of an SSD as an L2ARC, if I can only run at the old ATA speeds... Now, to answer your questions: eon:1:~#cfgadm Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition c0 scsi-sas connectedunconfigured unknown sata0/0sata-portdisconnected unconfigured failed sata0/1unknown connectedunconfigured unknown sata0/2sata-portemptyunconfigured ok sata0/3sata-portemptyunconfigured ok sata0/4sata-portemptyunconfigured ok sata0/5sata-portemptyunconfigured ok sata0/6sata-portemptyunconfigured ok sata0/7sata-portemptyunconfigured ok usb0/1 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb0/2 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb1/1 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb1/2 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb2/1 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb2/2 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb2/3 usb-hub connectedconfigured ok usb2/3.1 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb2/3.2 usb-kbd connectedconfigured ok usb2/4 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb3/1 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb3/2 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb4/1 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb4/2 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb5/1 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb5/2 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb6/1 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb6/2 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb7/1 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb7/2 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb7/3 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb7/4 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb7/5 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb7/6 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb7/7 unknown emptyunconfigured ok usb7/8 unknown emptyunconfigured ok cfgadm: Configuration administration not supported: Error: hotplug service is probably not running, please use 'svcadm enable hotplug' to enable the service. See cfgadm_shp(1M) for more details. eon:2:~#prtconf -D System Configuration: Sun Microsystems i86pc Memory size: 8183 Megabytes System Peripherals (Software Nodes): i86pc (driver name: rootnex) scsi_vhci, instance #0 (driver name: scsi_vhci) ramdisk, instance #0 (driver name: ramdisk) pci, instance #0 (driver name: npe) pci1028,28d pci8086,3408, instance #0 (driver name: pcieb) pci1028,28d, instance #0 (driver name: bnx) pci1028,28d, instance #1 (driver name: bnx) pci8086,340a, instance #1 (driver name: pcieb) pci8086,340e, instance #2 (driver name: pcieb) pci1028,1f10, instance #0 (driver name: mpt) sd, instance #0 (driver name: sd) sd, instance #1 (driver name: sd) sd, instance #2 (driver name: sd) sd, instance #3 (driver name: sd) sd, instance #4 (driver name: sd) sd, instance #5 (driver name: sd) pci8086,3410, instance #3 (driver name: pcieb) pci8086,3411, instance #4 (driver name: pcieb) pci8086,342e pci8086,3422, instance #0 (driver name: intel_nhmex) pci8086,3423, instance #0 (driver name: intel_nhm) pci1028,28d, instance #0 (driver name: uhci) pci1028,28d, instance #1 (driver name: uhci) pci1028,28d, instance #0 (driver name: ehci) hub, instance #0 (driver name: hubd) keyboard, instance #0 (driver name: hid) pci8086,3a40,
Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL
Thanks for the question. Indeed, I can see the SSD if I plug it into the motherboard controller, but it's a retarded one that needs Windows for AHCI; the only way for OpenSolaris or Linux to recognize is if I run in the old ATA mode, which is really slow. I don't know enough about either of these cards to know which driver the Marvell chip would use, or where to go get it. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Many thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL
Thanks for the suggestion. Any idea how to check the specific chipset number? At bootup, the BIOS says: 88SE91xx, and doesn't give the last couple of numbers. I've tried to look within OSOL itself, say using the device driver manager on the LiveCD, but it just says SATA controller. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL
@dre2kse: I can't get either of these cards to work at all. I tried the suggestion to boot the LiveCD, and it shows the AHCI driver attached to the SATA controller. When I run format, I don't see the drive attached to the card. I've tried this with an SSD and a regular HD, switched all the cables around and moved slots and bays, just to make sure there wasn't something really stupid that I've missed. I really have no idea what's going on!! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL
So I'm throwing up the white flag on this one. My SAS controller (Dell SAS 6i/R) works just fine, but I was using the recommended cables for the six drives in my system (which has four SATA/SAS connectors on one channel, but only two on the other). Since it has two of the special SFF(?) connectors, I had to order a new cable from Dell that should give me another connector to use the SSD directly, without any other drivers. Therefore, I've returned the cards to NewEgg. So I couldn't get either the ASUS or Koutech cards to work in my Dell PowerEdge T410, fyi. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Wacom Pressure Sensitivity in VirtualBox
First off, a huge thank you to the folks at LinuxWacom who adapted and compiled the binaries for the Wacom drawing tablet drivers for OpenSolaris. That was truly a labor of love that (finally) allows me to use my drawing tablet. I'm running Adobe Photoshop on WinXP inside VirtualBox. In the default configuration, I can use the tablet essentially as a mouse, so that I can navigate and draw and whatnot. However, I the pressure sensitivity aspect appears not to work. When I draw/paint in Photoshop, the width of the brush stroke remains fixed and constant, and does not increase when I press harder. I posted a note on the LinuxWacom list, and got a response that I don't quite understand: If you want virtualbox guest to have the pressure sensitivity you need to let the guest driver handle it, otherwise all you get is basic input functionality. This means that you need either PUEL or commercial version of virutalbox with USB forwarding support and you need to forward the tablet device to virtualbox. With XP host and Linux guest it sort of but not quite worked. There was pressure sensitivity so you could sort of draw, but there was no system cursor for it so it was hard to see where. It may work for XP guest tho. Does this make sense to anyone? Or is there another approach in VirtualBox that might work? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Wacom Pressure Sensitivity in VirtualBox
Thanks for your help. Three questions: 1. Would the mouse pointer then be turned over to the tablet in the WinXP window only? That is, when I move the mouse, it would control the host OS (OpenSolaris), and the pen itself would be confined to WinXP, and could not affect the host? 2. Can I still use the same .vdi and snapshots that I'm using with the open-source version now, and can I move back and forth at will? 3. Is there a way to assign a SATA DVD-R drive so that I could use something like Nero to burn DVDs directly from within WinXP? Many thanks for your help! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] When is the L2ARC refreshed if on a separate drive?
I'm running a mirrored pair of 2 TB SATA drives as my data storage drives on my home workstation, a Core i7-based machine with 10 GB of RAM. I recently added a sandforce-based 60 GB SSD (OCZ Vertex 2, NOT the pro version) as an L2ARC to the single mirrored pair. I'm running B134, with ZFS pool version 22, with dedup enabled. If I understand correctly, the dedup table should be in the L2ARC on the SSD, and I should have enough RAM to keep the references to that table in memory, and that this is therefore a well-performing solution. My question is what happens at power off. Does the cache device essentially get cleared, and the machine has to rebuild it when it boots? Or is it persistent. That is, should performance improve after a little while following a reboot, or is it always constant once it builds the L2ARC once? Rather informally, it sometimes seems that the hard drives are a bit slower the first time they load a program now, vs. when I didn't have the SSD installed as a cache device on the pool. But this is mainly an impression. Thanks for your help! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] LTFS and LTO-5 Tape Drives
Has anyone looked into the new LTFS on LTO-5 for tape backups? Any idea how this would work with ZFS? I'm presuming ZFS send / receive are not going to work. But it seems rather appealing to have the metadata properly with the data, and being able to browse files directly instead of having to rely on backup software, however nice tar may be. Has anyone used this with OpenSolaris, or have an opinion on how this would work in practice? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Wacom Pressure Sensitivity in VirtualBox
Thanks, and we've already been over this particular issue, and I'm still not interested in using CDrecord at this point. I'd ask anyone else if they've been able to use VirtualBox non-open-source to get DVD-writing access within Windows? Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] When is the L2ARC refreshed if on a separate drive?
Ah, thanks for the information! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project
Congrats on the new project! A quick business-case question for you: is there a way you might offer something reasonable in return for some financial support / donations from the community? There are a lot of us who depend on OpenSolaris, and are frustrated by the lack of updates, bug fixes, etc. This is, as you say, like an insurance policy. And especially if, going forward, the community coalesces around this. The (free) advice I've gotten here on this forum, for example, blows anything I've ever seen elsewhere (Linux, in particular, not even thinking about the monstrosity from Redmond) out of the water. For those of us who are building infrastructure around OpenSolaris now, a free version that will be maintained and updated and bug-fixed is an important investment in the future, so we aren't orphaned. Would community contributions now speed the process, and possibly lead to a full-fledged distribution? Or are you guys already all set as far as money goes? And is there something you might offer those of us who can pony up some reasonable amount of cash to help you developers along? Secondarily, is there any possible way you can talk to NVIDIA and get CUDA support running with this? That would be an enormous watershed for some of us who do GPU computing for scientific work. I need a robust filesystem and management (ZFS is my only choice now), and it's painful to have to keep Linux around mainly for CUDA. That would be huge, if you guys could swing it somehow. Thanks so much for doing this!! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Wacom Pressure Sensitivity in VirtualBox
Okay, then, do tell me: does CDRecord support BluRay? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] The Illumos Project
So CUDA is for numerical computation, and doesn't involve any display, per se. Of course you can visualize your results with the graphics card in many cases with OpenGL directly, but that's not the point. There have long been rumors about a CUDA driver for Solaris / OpenSolaris, but it's never been official. One technical detail: NVIDIA's compilers take either CUDA C -or- OpenCL, and compile the source code to a form of assembler called PTX, and that's fed to the graphics card. So by CUDA, I mean CUDA and OpenCL, since one driver will automatically support both, the way they have it architected and designed. They are not stupid; they want people to use their cards, so they support OpenCL more than anyone. And, frankly, vendor independence isn't all it's cracked up to be in this situation. ATI/AMD have not invested much effort in getting their act together on OpenCL in the real world. Probably 95+% that I know of, doing real scientific or engineering work, are doing it with CUDA, because it's much more established, and the real investment isn't in the boards, but in the months and years it takes to learn the programming paradigm. But remember that, with any NVIDIA CUDA driver, it will always support the latest OpenCL, too (and any open distribution should loudly insist on that capability). It's not that I think people here should spend the resources doing that, but more to get in contact with NVIDIA and make sure their drivers are available. I can tell you that it would be PERFECT for us to have a Nexenta-like non-desktop distribution based on IllumOS, where we could run a very efficient small OS and use it to deploy a lot of GPUs. Much as you want the OS and its details to be invisible for NAS storage, just presenting a mapped drive via NFS to the user, if you could do the same with a GPU for computing, that owuld be ideal. I just need a command line, access to a lot of storage and RAM, and that's it. SSHing in and out is perfectly fine; don't even need (or want) much of a GUI. Right now, there is NO platform that would give my data the security and management features of ZFS, and the access to GPU computing. If IllumOS could do this in a reliable, straightforward manner, I could see it being deployed in a lot of places very quickly. Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Wacom Pressure Sensitivity in VirtualBox
Cool; thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Trying to recover rpool space after multiple updates
I did (finally) manage to figure out where all the space went: various VirtualBox snapshots, variously buried within ZFS snapshots, took up tens of gigs of space. Once those were all merged and cleaned up, my disk is back to happy state, with about 30 GB free on a 60 GB disk. Thanks for all of the tips! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL
No reason to apologize; you guys have been SO helpful to me, getting started with OpenSolaris over the past year. In the event, the system is working fine. I have a 8-port Dell SAS 6i/R controller, but the default cable set for this machine only has six connectors (four on channel 0, and two on channel 1). I got a second 4-connector cable, and just connected the SSD to one of the leftover connectors, so all is now well. FYI the Dell SAS 6i/R controller has worked well for me on both a Precision Workstation T7500, and a PowerEdge T410. Thanks again! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Optimizing performance on a ZFS-based NAS
Thanks to the help from many people on this board, I finally got my OpenSolaris-based NAS box up and running. I have a Dell T410 with a Xeon E5504 2.0 GHz (Nehalem) quad-core processor, 8 GB of RAM. I have six 2TB Hitachi Deskstar (HD32000IDK/7K) SATA drives, set up as stripes across three mirrored pairs. I have an OCZ Vertex 2 (NOT Pro) 60 GB SSD (Sandforce-based) for the L2ARC. All seven drives are attached to a Dell SAS 6i/R controller, which is an 8-channel SAS controller based on an LSI chipset. I've enabled dedup and compression on all filesystems of the single zpool. Everything is working pretty well, and over NFS, I can get a solid 80 MB/sec if I'm copying big files. This is adequate, but I am wondering if I can do any better. I'm only using this box to share between two or three other machines, in a private (home or lab) network. I think I've followed all of the suggestions I've been given; in particular, running 8 GB of RAM with the 60 GB SSD for the L2ARC should allow full caching of the dedup table. I ran zilstat.ksh, but it always came up with zeros, which suggests there's no point in a ZIL log SSD. Is there anything left to tune? If so, how do I go about figuring out how to increase performance? Right now, I'm just copying large files and looking at the transfer rate as calculated by nautilus, or with iostat -x. What's the next thing to do, as far as diagnostics? I'd like to learn a bit more about the process of optimizing, since I have other such boxes I want to set up and tune, but with different hardware. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Optimizing performance on a ZFS-based NAS
Thanks, guys. I actually have two ethernet ports on the server, so in principle I should be able to use automatic link-aggregation in OSOL to do this, right? If I understand correctly, the two adapters get teamed, and only require a single IP address, right? Of course, then to see any improvement on my individual workstations, they all need second ethernet cards, too, if I understand correctly. I should then set up a second ethernet network for the internal data, and keep a separate network for internet access. Is that a reasonable strategy? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Optimizing performance on a ZFS-based NAS
Thanks for the tips. I'll check out Wireshark. A second question: how do you assess performance within the box itself? I'm using iostat -x, but there's also bonnie (which I've never used). If I want to figure out if the network is the limiting factor, I should also figure out the limiting hard-drive sustained bandwidth, right? What's the best way to do that? There's no question that getting 80% of ethernet bandwidth at peak transfer rates is as good as it will get. However, I've noticed that when copying files and watching the network traffic, I see dips every ten seconds or so, where no data is being sent. This problem was a lot worse when I just had two mirrored drives, which I guess were not putting forward enough sustained bandwidth, even internally. So it's not clear to me that the disk subsystem is always saturating the ethernet connection. Of course, if there's a bigger pipe to accept higher peak bandwidth, then of course the average will increase, but I do want to make sure I'm getting the highest overall transfer that I can. Moreover, I want to make sure my current setup is at its optimum, also in part because I am going to get a new tape drive, and want to make sure my disk subsystem is enough to feed it at full rate (otherwise you get the annoying start / stop on the tape drive, which kills the performance and the motors). Any additional insight would be welcome. Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Optimizing performance on a ZFS-based NAS
So this is a good call all around. I finally figured out (once again, thanks to another helpful post on this board) about how to benchmark with DD. Doing the direct reads and writes to a non-deduped, non-compressed filesystem over NFS, I get about 110 MB/sec reading, and writing, which is very close to the limit (like 900 mbit/sec). Meanwhile, if I do the same locally on the EON server, I read at about 290 MB/sec, and read at around 350 MB/sec. So clearly the network is the bandwidth bottleneck. Ned, can you elaborate a little bit on the problems with link aggregation? I was thinking of adding a dual-port Intel NIC to each system, so that the workstations would have 3, and the server 4, 1000Base-T ports. I was looking into switches, and saw that the HP 1810G was listed as good for this purpose. And does Jumbo Frames actually help anything? As to what I'm doing: I've basically gotten rid of all local data storage on my workstations, and just am using a disk (usually an SSD) for the operating system (Windows XP and 7, Linux, OpenSolaris). I'm working with large scientific data sets, and wanted to see if the fileserver would be fast enough so that I could just work directly over my local network. Makes the problem of synchronizing and storing / backup data so much easier. So I'm happy to add NICs to the workstations if it gives substantially better performance. Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Optimizing performance on a ZFS-based NAS
So I've gotten link aggregation working on the server and one of the clients (had a small adventure recovering an older Linksys SRW2008 switch). The performance actually dropped a bit on the one client. (the easiest way to test this is to just unplumb and replumb the various combinations of cards on the client). So this is not encouraging. I'm doing everything over NFS. Is there any situation where, say, a multiple-file copy will distribute the load over more than one link? Even the peak performance never exceeded 125 MB/sec, so there doesn't seem to be any performance advantage to this. Also, I've configured the LACPACTIVITY option on all cases to off. Does this matter? And how do I check for errors (interface error counter) that you mention? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Disk on Module (DOM) for NAS boot drive?
I have a file server that I've basically maxed out the drive bays for. At the moment, I'm running Nexenta on an SSD that is sort of resting on something else in the case. I was wondering if, instead, I could install Nexenta on a SATA Disk on Module (DOM), say something like 4 GB, dual channel, SLC: http://www.kingspec.com/solid-state-disk-products/series-domsata.htm I did try with a USB memory stick, but it was slow. And my previous installation of EON on a memory stick got corrupted and I lost everything (not the data, but the configuration). Has anyone gotten this to work before (for Nexenta, EON, etc.)? Any suggestions or advice? And how much space does a plain-vanilla installation of Nexenta actually require? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Indiana - what comes closest to it?
Alasdair: for those of us interested, what is the best way to reach you? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Disk on Module (DOM) for NAS boot drive?
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately my EON flash drive lost /mnt/ so I couldn't do much in terms of changing the system. I wanted to try Nexenta, anyway, since it's a lot easier to manage (things like NFS are a bit more of a pain with EON). So now I'm booting Nexenta from an Intel X25-V SSD, but that's a bit of overkill, and I'd rather something smaller. Should the DOM modules work? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Anonymous NFS file permissions
I am running NexentaStor 3.0.3-1 on a fileserver, and have it set up for CIFS and NFS access. I have three clients, running Win7, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and OSol B134 (will upgrade soon to OpenIndiana!). For the NFS machines, if I create a folder or file with Ubuntu (using just the standard NFS mounting into Linux), I can't open the folder or read its files with the OSol machine. And vice versa: the Ubuntu machine can't read folders created over NFS from the OSOl machine. In both cases, the folder is identified as being owned by anonymous NFS user. I can go in and manually change the folder permission, but that's a tad tedious when you have a large number of folders. How can I fix this? This is an internal server that I just want everyone to be able to access. I already asked on the NExenta forum, but there seems to be relatively little activity, and I haven't heard back. Many thanks in advance!! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Anonymous NFS file permissions
Thanks. I tried this, and the guestok=true does not appear to be valid option (at least that i could find) for zfs set sharenfs. Does this apply only to CIFS? Also, is there a way just to put the command into the Nexenta gui? I don't mind doing it from the command line (as it is, I have to run chmod on every relevant directory), but would be nice to know if there were a better to do this for the future. Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Anonymous NFS file permissions
Thanks! It seems to be working now! I really appreciate the help! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Anonymous NFS file permissions
So I turned the machine off for a month when I was out of town. I started everything up, and now I have the same permissions problem I had before---but the option of 'anon=0' is still there (see above description)!?! Does anyone have an idea what might be going wrong? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
