Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg(5) very slow, may this be due to local mirrors?

2013-12-13 Thread tyrrell t
It's always a cpu-bound issue for at least me, Jim. On a T1 line, top indicates 100 % utilization most of the time. Maybe installer scripts run at too-low of a priority? Kernel handles chmod too slowly? Sorting dependencies is inefficient? Surely there's a way to profile this (?) > Date: Fri,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Manual installation procedures

2013-12-03 Thread tyrrell t
Asceticism is a sin. > Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 02:35:11 +0100 > From: jimkli...@cos.ru > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Manual installation procedures > > Hello all, > > Completing my recent burst of activity regarding installation of > OpenIndiana (and pr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox 4.3.x (2!) and oi 151a8? working?

2013-11-15 Thread tyrrell t
Ran it last week, perfect access to underlying hardware... VM's RAM gets stuck in swap often on a 1gb ram machine. Aggrivating and painful. > Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:10:27 +1100 > From: c...@bl.echidna.id.au > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Virtualbox 4

[OpenIndiana-discuss] hangs on terminal back-space and iwi0 disconnects

2013-11-15 Thread tyrrell t
Quite frequently ( about every 1.5 hours ) whenever I get disconnected from a wireless network, the system seems to hang. Assumed I needed to reboot, but lasts for about a minute and everything resumes. This also happens ( frequently ) whenever I backspace under vi as to cause a system 'beep'. (

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] i find the oi wiki lacking; is there a handbook?

2013-11-07 Thread tyrrell t
thanks ; ) I'll see if I can get it, but I don't have an amazon account right now. Could you comment on how documentation is generally available? Is it soley in oracle blogs ? Do most people use the mailing list? Is it ok to generally use this list for what basically amounts to 'stupid beginner

[OpenIndiana-discuss] i find the oi wiki lacking; is there a handbook?

2013-11-07 Thread tyrrell t
I have to migrate to solaris and I'm really set in my linux ways. containers? pools? I have no idea what any of this is, is there a handbook for solaris? ( is openindiana fundementally different from solaris in terms of things in guides for solaris working under oi? ) Where would you direct s