Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZVOL (et al) /device node access rights

2012-10-15 Thread Andrej Javoršek
Hello, I have impression that it is not always necessary to chown raw zvol's. It happens occasionally on some zvols (and only when I initiate reboot and forget about it) :) Regards Andrej On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jim Klimov j...@cos.ru wrote: While updating the Wiki page on

[OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM and Xen support in OpenIndiana

2012-10-15 Thread Lukas Laukamp
Hello all, at the moment I am search for alternativ OSes than linux which have KVM and Xen support. beside NetBSD and Illumos I also want to look at OpenIndiana. For KVM I found a port at github which semm to work but is in a testing/development state. For Xen I couldn't find that much so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM and Xen support in OpenIndiana

2012-10-15 Thread Nikola M
Lukas Laukamp wrote: Hello all, at the moment I am search for alternativ OSes than linux which have KVM and Xen support. beside NetBSD and Illumos I also want to look at OpenIndiana. For KVM I found a port at github which semm to work but is in a testing/development state. For Xen I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM and Xen support in OpenIndiana

2012-10-15 Thread Lukas Laukamp
Am 15.10.2012 10:44, schrieb Nikola M: Lukas Laukamp wrote: Hello all, at the moment I am search for alternativ OSes than linux which have KVM and Xen support. beside NetBSD and Illumos I also want to look at OpenIndiana. For KVM I found a port at github which semm to work but is in a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM and Xen support in OpenIndiana

2012-10-15 Thread Nikola M
Lukas Laukamp wrote: thing. I could only help the development with testing results and so on. I think there must be found a few people who are interested in Xen Support for Illumos/OpenIndiana. So I don't know what I could do It is important to know that Xen is there but needs maintance. But

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM and Xen support in OpenIndiana

2012-10-15 Thread Jonathan Adams
We have Linux and Windows 2008 R2 servers running at different sites in KVM machines and it works a treat (if you have all the passthrough stuff on Intel chips turned on) IIRC Joyent went for KVM because the speed was better, support from the community was better and because the XEN stuff that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM and Xen support in OpenIndiana

2012-10-15 Thread Nikola M
Lukas Laukamp wrote: Am 15.10.2012 11:42, schrieb Nikola M: Lukas Laukamp wrote: thing. I could only help the development with testing results and so on. I think there must be found a few people who are interested in Xen Support for Illumos/OpenIndiana. So I don't know what I could do It is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] KVM and Xen support in OpenIndiana

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Jonathan Adams wrote: We have Linux and Windows 2008 R2 servers running at different sites in KVM machines and it works a treat (if you have all the passthrough stuff on Intel chips turned on) Is OpenIndiana's KVM usable for running a desktop OS like Windows 7 with use

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZVOL (et al) /device node access rights

2012-10-15 Thread Andrej Javoršek
Hello, I'm running VB guests as normal (unprivileged) user and I have impression that ownership (I'm using chown on zvol's) is not always lost during reboot. The other part of my comment was joke on my behalf, since restarts of host OS are rare and often I forget to check if guests came up

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I am having problems with Inkscape and convert producing PNG's

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Jonathan Adams wrote: it's the same message on both, I'm not sure if Inkscape is using convert to produce the file. jadams@jadlaptop:~/images$ convert Mylogo.svg /tmp/Mylogo.png convert: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.2.44 `/tmp/Mylogo.png' @

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Heinrich van Riel
Thanks for the responses. Spot on in post http://openindiana.org/**pipermail/openindiana-discuss/** 2012-September/009788.htmlhttp://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2012-September/009788.html arc_meta_used = 423 MB 2 days later arc_meta_used =

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I am having problems with Inkscape and convert producing PNG's

2012-10-15 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 10/15/12 05:05 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: it's the same message on both, I'm not sure if Inkscape is using convert to produce the file. jadams@jadlaptop:~/images$ convert Mylogo.svg /tmp/Mylogo.png convert: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.2.44 `/tmp/Mylogo.png' @

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I am having problems with Inkscape and convert producing PNG's

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: Any suggestions on what to install to get this working? :) This is a annoying problem with nearly everything that's linked to png or cairo. I usually run with env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpng12.so convert but I don't know if libpng12 was intended

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Jason Matthews
It seems the memory is going to the kernel. I have this problem on my web proxy tier, but not on my backend systems. I have checked kernel core dumps for memory leaks, switched the Ethernet cards/drivers, tested exclusive versus shared interfaces on the zones, and tweaked everything I could

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Jason Matthews
I can't tell you much about continuus use of VirtualBox and its stability over long periods of time, I used it with success on daily basis for few years now, with OI (and previously OpenSolaris) being host. I've seen no problems with stability, however I only run it for a day and then

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Cedric Blancher
On 16 October 2012 00:52, Jason Matthews ja...@broken.net wrote: I should also mention that over all network performance degrades over time and the only fix I have sound so far is to shut down the zones, destroy the vnics, recreate them, and then reboot the zones. I do that about every

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Jason Matthews
-Original Message- From: Cedric Blancher [mailto:cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com] IMO you blame the wrong people. You can have the same kind of problems with any Illumos-based distribution if you activate a zone and let the machine just sit there for a week or so or have a lot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability Scrubs

2012-10-15 Thread Heinrich van Riel
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Jason Matthews ja...@broken.net wrote: From: heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com [mailto:heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com] My point is most high end storage units has some form of data verification process that is active all the time. As does ZFS. The blocks are

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability Scrubs

2012-10-15 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 15, 2012, at 3:00 PM, heinrich.vanr...@gmail.com wrote: Most of my storage background is with EMC CX and VNX and that is used in a vast amount of datacenters. They run a process called sniiffer that runs in the background and request a read of all blocks on each disk individually

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability Scrubs

2012-10-15 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-10-16 3:57, Heinrich van Riel wrote: Understood, if full backups are executed weekly/monthly no scrub is required. I'd argue that this is not a completely true statement. It might hold for raidzN backing storage with single-copy blocks, but if mirrors and/or two or three copies are

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Brendan Gregg
(removing developer) On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Cedric Blancher cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com wrote: On 16 October 2012 00:52, Jason Matthews ja...@broken.net wrote: I should also mention that over all network performance degrades over time and the only fix I have sound so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Jason Matthews
-Original Message- From: Brendan Gregg [mailto:brendan.gr...@joyent.com] A full echo ::kmastat | mdb -k before reboot may show where the memory is or isn't. I am not a point where I would normally reboot it, but we are pretty well deep into memory utilization for the size of the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] Re: Memory usage concern

2012-10-15 Thread Brendan Gregg
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Jason Matthews ja...@broken.net wrote: -Original Message- From: Brendan Gregg [mailto:brendan.gr...@joyent.com] A full echo ::kmastat | mdb -k before reboot may show where the memory is or isn't. I am not a point where I would normally reboot

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot stalls on install

2012-10-15 Thread Bentley, Dain
Hello all... I'm trying to boot from DVD to install Opeindiana on a Gigabyte H55M-S2V and Im having issues. As soon as I get past the grub screen and select boot from cd I get the oracle trademark message and everything freezes up. My keyboars (regualr ps2 connection) becomes unusable and I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS, Samba, Windows ACLs

2012-10-15 Thread lbragg
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:01:43 +0400 From: Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS, Samba, Windows ACLs Message-ID: 50798257.6050...@cos.ru Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1;

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot stalls on install

2012-10-15 Thread Nathan Kunkee
From: dbent...@nas.edu To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:02:05 -0400 Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot stalls on install Hello all... I'm trying to boot from DVD to install Opeindiana on a Gigabyte H55M-S2V and Im

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] I am having problems with Inkscape and convert producing PNG's

2012-10-15 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, On po, 2012-10-15 at 12:12 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Jonathan Adams wrote: it's the same message on both, I'm not sure if Inkscape is using convert to produce the file. jadams@jadlaptop:~/images$ convert Mylogo.svg /tmp/Mylogo.png convert: Application was