Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-28 Thread Michael Stapleton
, Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com wrote: Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool? To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Friday, March 28, 2014, 10:04 AM I'm not sure when things changed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recovering from power loss on USB ZFS pool?

2014-03-28 Thread Michael Stapleton
I'm not sure when things changed, but way back in the OpenSolaris days, I had the root drive in my laptop mirrored to an external USB drive. I never had problems back then. I would do a demonstration where I would remove the USB drive while the laptop was up and running, and then plug the USB

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox can't save files

2014-03-18 Thread Michael Stapleton
I have The same problem in ff 26.0 on OI u7 . Running firefox from the command line gives the following error: WORKER ERROR DURING SETUP Error: couldn't find function symbol in library WORKER ERROR DETAIL @resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_unix_allthreads.jsm:72

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Offtopic question to old SPARC users

2013-11-23 Thread Michael Stapleton
My understanding is that the time is read from the NVRAM chip only once when booting, then the time is updated by the kernel clock() function by interrupt 10 while running. High interrupt rates could cause the clock interrupt to be missed, slowing time. A lot of serial activity could cause it. I

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

2013-11-18 Thread Michael Stapleton
Works well for me other than not being able to boot iPXE. 4.3 goes to GURU meditation with iPXE. But it does it on all platforms. Windows and Linux. Mike On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 15:43 +0100, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] wrote: Hi, well, i didn't measured anything, that is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running VirtualBox headless

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi, I have been working on a little project that might suit your needs. It is in the final testing phase, and not public until now I guess, but should work well for what you are doing. It uses OI, OmniOS of Solaris11 as a storge / VM management server and allows you to run VMs anywhere you like.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running VirtualBox headless

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
to use it in any way you like for as long as you like. Suggestions are welcome. Mike On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 21:54 +0200, Nikola M. wrote: On 06/24/13 02:41 PM, Michael Stapleton wrote: check out www.techsologic.com if you are interested. I see it is closed source proprietary software

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] running VirtualBox headless

2013-06-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
No problem :-) Infinity uses VirtualBox to do the actual virtualization. Infinity simply is a data/ VM management platform. Mike On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 14:24 -0600, Jan Owoc wrote: On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 21:54 +0200, Nikola M. wrote: On 06/24/13 02:41 PM, Michael Stapleton wrote: check

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS read speed(iSCSI)

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Stapleton
I have no idea what the problem is, but it is worth noting that last time I checked, Oracles storage arrays were running Solaris and Comstar. Mike On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 20:36 -0400, Heinrich van Riel wrote: spoke to soon died again. Give up. Just posting the result in case someone else run

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dhcp woes, (was Re: Anyone using OpenIndiana in production?)

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Stapleton
Unless those servers already depend on your storage. Mileage will vary :-) Mike On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 11:45 +, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Michael Stapleton [mailto:michael.staple...@techsologic.com] The Dhcp files can be stored on NFS and used by multiple servers

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dhcp woes, (was Re: Anyone using OpenIndiana in production?)

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi, The Dhcp files can be stored on NFS and used by multiple servers. Mike On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 22:17 +, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru] Well, at the time I documented this page, it worked (at oi_151a5 timeframe, I believe):

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMF retries count

2013-03-26 Thread Michael Stapleton
the symptom. Mike On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 14:26 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-03-26 14:09, Michael Stapleton wrote: Hi Jim, Your SMF method is likely running asadmin. Have you tried using the asadmin command directly to stop the domain? It sounds like it could be the default 60 second socket

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMF retries count

2013-03-26 Thread Michael Stapleton
Klimov wrote: On 2013-03-26 14:44, Michael Stapleton wrote: There are a number of environmental variables used by asadmin, but I did not find anything that looked promising. As a last resort hack, you could you wrap the asadmin command in a script. I thought of changing the SMF method

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Xvnc in a zone

2013-03-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
On Solaris 10, I used to configure my zones to run xnest as the X server with the display directed back to the global zone. xhosts in the global zone was configured to allow the zones access. It worked like a charm. I even had a linux branded zone I used for google earth. In that case I used

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SYBA SY-PEX40008

2013-02-12 Thread Michael Stapleton
Found this in the review section: Cons: New cards seems to have a Winbond W39F010 BIOS chipset which is not supported by Silicon Image or Syba -- which means you can *NOT* upgrade this card. The card will more than likely come with a BIOS from 2006, the latest is from 2010 and even then if you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anybody using Trusted JDS/Gnome?

2013-01-05 Thread Michael Stapleton
The Organizations which use TX do not discuss the fact that they use TX. That being said, those same organizations will not be using OI... I personally really like TX. If you want actual security, it is the way to go, but the problem with real security is that it really gets in the way if you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing Virtual Box for the first time

2013-01-04 Thread Michael Stapleton
You need to use the full path. #pkgadd -d ./VirtualBox*.pkg Note the ./ Mike On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 19:42 +, peter jones wrote: I am trying to install virtual box on a new installation 151a7 and have got myself into difficulties. After several attempt to download the new version from

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] auto-scrub and its result

2012-12-28 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hello, One little correction, Shutdown is fine because it is a shell script that calls init. Mike On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 22:47 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2012-12-28 21:45, Brogyányi József wrote: Hi Bob Thanks your answer. I'd like to know what does it mean clean shut down? I think

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Linux software-raid with two Comstar iSCSI volumes

2012-11-16 Thread Michael Stapleton
FYI, there is a setting that controls how Solaris balances the frames across the links in the aggregation. IP, MAC or round robbin. Mike On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 01:19 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2012-11-17 00:46, Roel_D wrote: How about teaming? Is it supported under OI? My memory

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Holding port numbers for servers

2012-11-05 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi Jim, TCP/UDP tunable: #ndd /dev/tcp tcp_extra_priv_ports http://www.sean.de/Solaris/soltune.html#portnumbers Mike On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 16:59 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: Back in the old days when internet authors thought that there was going to be not much server software, they created

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Holding port numbers for servers

2012-11-05 Thread Michael Stapleton
, SMF and/or zone limit_priv props), right? Thanks again, //Jim On 2012-11-05 17:11, Michael Stapleton wrote: Hi Jim, TCP/UDP tunable: #ndd /dev/tcp tcp_extra_priv_ports http://www.sean.de/Solaris/soltune.html#portnumbers Mike On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 16:59 +0100, Jim

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS remote receive

2012-10-23 Thread Michael Stapleton
You could try to set the crypo algorithm to none if you do not need encryption. ssh -c none Might also be worth trying to see if it is ssh that is slowing you down. Mike On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 17:03 -0400, Doug Hughes wrote: On 10/23/2012 4:13 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: Works pretty

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi Jim, Sounds to me like DTrace is the tool for you. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/817-6223/chp-intro/index.html It's not something you learn in 5 minutes, but it really is worth the effort. IPMP does not have to be configured with test addresses. IPMP will uses Link based by default

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
Solaris 11 zonecfg support a NIC configuration called anet. When such a zone boots, a lower-link (see below) will be automatically determined and a temporary VNIC automati- cally created over that link for the zone. The lower- link and VNIC are deleted when the zone

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
, 2012-10-20 at 18:22 +0400, Jim Klimov wrote: I really wonder how DTrace can help here - what should I track? ;) 2012-10-20 18:07, Michael Stapleton wrote: IPMP does not have to be configured with test addresses. IPMP will uses Link based by default if your NIC drivers support link state

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
ported to OI? Mike On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 18:52 +0400, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-10-20 18:40, Michael Stapleton wrote: I can't believe I'm saying this, but maybe this is a job for NWAM profiles? Intriguing, at least ;) I wonder if NWAM can provide a single IP interface (over which vnics

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
+0400, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-10-20 19:05, Michael Stapleton wrote: Maybe you could have your zones and the global zone on an etherstub through VNICs, Then route from the global zones real NIC to the VNIC connected to the etherstub. Can you use NAT? IP addresses might be the next challenge

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Same networking with varied NICs

2012-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
help my case - not without an intermittent reboot, or some (SMF?) script to vanity-name the correct interface and continue with dladm setup of the system. That's something but not enough to satisfy me ;) 2012-10-20 20:08, Michael Stapleton wrote: Bridging only supports physical NICs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability Scrubs

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Stapleton
for hardware messages should be a daily job Kind regards, The out-side Op 13 okt. 2012 om 05:26 heeft Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com het volgende geschreven: I'm not a mathematician, but can anyone calculate the chance of the Same 8K datablock on Both submirrors

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability Scrubs

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Stapleton
:02 +0400, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-10-13 7:26, Michael Stapleton wrote: The VAST majority of data centers are not storing data in storage that does checksums to verify data, that is just the reality. Regular backups and site replication rule. And this actually concerns me... we help

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability Scrubs

2012-10-12 Thread Michael Stapleton
It is easy to understand that zfs srubs can be useful, But, How often do we scrub or the equivalent of any other file system? UFS? VXFS? NTFS? ... ZFS has scrubs as a feature, but is it a need? I do not think so. Other file systems accept the risk, mostly because they can not really do anything if

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability Scrubs

2012-10-12 Thread Michael Stapleton
/12/12, Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com wrote: I'm only writing this because I get the feeling some people think scrubs are a need. Maybe people associate doing scrubs with something like doing NTFS defrags? I normally do scrubs when I think about it. Which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Zfs stability Scrubs

2012-10-12 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hughes wrote: So?}?\, a lot of people have already answered this in various ways. I'm going to provide a little bit of direct answer and focus to some of those other answers (and emphasis) On 10/12/2012 5:07 PM, Michael Stapleton wrote: It is easy to understand that zfs srubs can be useful

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] rebuilding man page catalog

2012-10-09 Thread Michael Stapleton
catman -w create the windex database that is used by whatis(1) and the man(1) -f and -k options. No manual reformatting is done. Mike Hello listmates, If may man command does not display some of the pages

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Swap during install

2012-09-25 Thread Michael Stapleton
As a general rule, If you are scanning you need more RAM, If your applications are complaining you need more swap. Having endless swap just lets applications drive the server into the ground. Solaris uses virtual swap. VMstat sr column == 0 Mike On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 19:41 +0100, Peter

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot ping localhost (with NoNet configuration)

2012-09-09 Thread Michael Stapleton
Have you tried to configure pkg/server to listen on 127.0.0.1 ? # svccfg -s pkg/server setprop pkg/address = net_address: 127.0.0.1 # svcadm refresh pkg/server # svcadm restart pkg/server Mike ?On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 11:25 +0200, Ivan Gualandri wrote: Thank you yuri, unfortunately it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot ping localhost (with NoNet configuration)

2012-09-09 Thread Michael Stapleton
other idea? My problem is that OpenIndiana supports my network card only using myk driver, but i found only a version that need to be compiled, but the default installation of OI doesn't have gcc, then i must install that package :( Thanks, Ivan On 9 September 2012 17:13, Michael

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] reboot completely

2012-09-07 Thread Michael Stapleton
How about reboot -p -p Reboot to prom. This flag can be used to reboot the sys- tem through firmware without changing the default reboot behavior as denoted by the config/fastreboot_default property setting in system/boot-config service. This

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] tip ttydefs questions

2012-09-03 Thread Michael Stapleton
Have you looked at your /etc/remote settings? Might be something there? Why do you need DOS new line? Is there something on the controller that can be configured? #man remote . . . pr (str) Character that indicates end-of-line on the remote host. The default value

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Stapleton
Would not webmin be a good fit? Develop good modules for webmin to manage OI with. Mike On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 17:02 +0200, Open Indiana wrote: It's not that OI doesn't have to have a GUI, it's only that not all settings have to be set OVER a GUI. Of course it needs a decent GUI, but that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-02 Thread Michael Stapleton
I have been developing a virtualization product that runs on OI, It's written in Java but uses ZFS and Comstar so the server side has to be Iluminos/Solaris11 based. For me, development and testing has been much more efficient by running OI on my workstations and laptops. When I'm traveling, I can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Synchronizing Sun DHCP servers

2012-08-09 Thread Michael Stapleton
I have not looked at this in a long time, But multiple SUN DHCP servers used to be able to use a common NFS share of their configuration files. Yes the server can be configured to ping(Test) the addresses. Mike michael.staple...@techsologic.com On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 03:51 +0400, Jim Klimov

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] NFS fails to automount at boot

2012-08-06 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi, I have been using Solaris only since 2.6 and /home has always been an autofs mount point. What version of Solaris did not have /home as an autofs mount point? Or are you confusing OI with some other OS? Mike . On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 09:51 -0400, Daniel Kjar wrote: I am sure it has great

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] TCP Reset Packet Problem

2012-08-06 Thread Michael Stapleton
Do you have the VBox client utilities installed? I had seen strange clock problems when the Agent is not installed. Mike On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 12:31 +0800, Patrick Yu wrote: I was actually trying to say strange problem of TCP reset packet (or the the lack of). :-) Anyway, after some more

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount ISO image on boot?

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Stapleton
/.iso Now when I cd to /mountedISO/xp, the /ISO/xp.iso is mounted. If I cd tp /mountedISO/OI, the /ISO/OI.iso is mounts And so on. Drop a new iso in /ISO and cd to /mountesISO/? to access it. Mike On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 08:09 -0400, Michael Stapleton wrote: I have a bit more time

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ipfilter frustrations again

2012-07-18 Thread Michael Stapleton
09:58 AM, Michael Stapleton wrote: more /lib/svc/method/ipfilter ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount ISO image on boot?

2012-07-17 Thread Michael Stapleton
Or a job for autofs. Check out the man page for automount. Mike On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 12:43 -0400, Ray Arachelian wrote: On 07/17/2012 12:34 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote: On 07/17/2012 09:29 AM, Aneurin Price wrote: Hello all, From the command line, I can mount an iso image using mount

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to share files between host and VMs?

2012-04-27 Thread Michael Stapleton
Are All the VMs on the same host? How about VBox shared folders? Mike On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 12:01 -0500, Ron Parker wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Travis Lawrie tlawri...@gmail.com wrote: oi, napp-it, esxi, vt-d, compatible hba in it mode, passthrough, cifs shares, nfs shares,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] proxybase and pkg.depotd

2012-03-15 Thread Michael Stapleton
Try using just http://pkg.sonicle.com; Mike On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 10:40 +0100, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hi, I'm a bit confused about how to use the proxybase on pkg.depotd. I have a server running on OI mirror on port 8151, not public. I want it to be reversed proxy by my public apache like

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Michael Stapleton
One. Michael Stapleton On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:07 -0300, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Matt Connolly matt.connolly...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/11/2011, at 1:35 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On 11/27/11 04:36, Matt Connolly wrote: This still didn't help

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151 clean install - root role problem

2011-11-27 Thread Michael Stapleton
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 01:09 -0300, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: by that reasoning, if you wanted a primary administrator, you'd assign the root role and be done with it. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com wrote: Hello, I have to disagree

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory drains away....

2011-11-04 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hello, There is an issue running VirtualBox with ZFS. ZFS will cause fragmentation of memory which is usually not a problem, but due to the nature of how VirtualBox attempt to lock down continuous chunks of RAM, it is a problem for VBox. If you are running VBox and ZFS, cap the ARC cache...

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS stalls with oi_151?

2011-10-21 Thread Michael Stapleton
Hi, I had similar hard lockups when I accidentally tried to delete a ZFS Volume while doing a ZFS send at the same time. There seems to be a missing lock. In the end I had to ensure that I did not run concurrent zfs commands. Are there any other ZFS commands hung at the same time? Mike On

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
, now what's the meaning of this figures? Regards, Gernot Wolf Am 20.10.11 19:22, schrieb Michael Stapleton: Hi Gernot, You have a high context switch rate. try #dtrace -n 'sched:::off-cpu { @[execname]=count()}' For a few seconds to see if you can get the name

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
So, quite obviously there is one executable standing out here, sched, now what's the meaning of this figures? Regards, Gernot Wolf Am 20.10.11 19:22, schrieb Michael Stapleton: Hi Gernot, You have a high context switch rate. try #dtrace -n 'sched:::off-cpu { @[execname

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
/index.html does it help? On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 20:23, Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com wrote: My understanding is that it is not supposed to be a loaded system. We want to know what the load is. gernot@tintenfass:~# intrstat 30 device | cpu0 %tim

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
--- 5441 93% 93% 0.00 3132 cpu[0] i86_mwait Mike On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 20:37 +0200, Michael Schuster wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 20:33, Michael Stapleton michael.staple

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
+1 Mike On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 11:47 -0700, Rennie Allen wrote: I'd like to see a run of the script I sent earlier. I don't trust intrstat (not for any particular reason, other than that I have never used it)... On 10/20/11 11:33 AM, Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
of it... Regards, Gernot Am 20.10.11 20:17, schrieb Michael Schuster: Gernot, is there anything suspicious in /var/adm/messages? Michael On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 20:07, Michael Stapleton michael.staple...@techsologic.com wrote: That rules out userland. Sched tells me

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
I would not worry about it. The messages are being caused by some problem. Lets focus on getting the messages. Debug will increase your load, but not like you are seeing. Mike On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 22:10 +0200, Gernot Wolf wrote: Ok, here we go: gernot@tintenfass:~# mdb -k Loading modules:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with high cpu load (oi_151a)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
Is this running in a VM? Mike On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 22:20 +0200, Gernot Wolf wrote: Grep output attached. Hopefully this attachement will go through ;) Regards, Gernot Wolf Am 20.10.11 21:25, schrieb Michael Stapleton: Attachment is missing... I'd like to see the whole things

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
While we are talking about 32 | 64 bit processes; Which one is better? Faster? More efficient? Mike On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 13:59 +0100, Deano wrote: Windows made the shift last server release (2008r2 is x64 only). So it's only the OSS server families which support 32bit, likely because

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oracle removes 32bit x86 cpu support for solaris 11 will OI do same?

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Stapleton
limitations further curtail this, but 48G motherboards are now commonplace. On 32 bit Intel (Amd) you are typically limited to 4G, which is split between kernel and userland depending on the OS and configuration. (E.g.: 1G kernel and 3G userland) Steve - Michael Stapleton

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana in VMWare and usb devices

2011-06-21 Thread Michael Stapleton
on files with no problem Thanx for your precious analysis ;) -- Da: Michael Stapleton A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Data: 21 giugno 2011 17.18.41 CEST Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana in VMWare

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana in VMWare and usb devices

2011-06-20 Thread Michael Stapleton
Maybe the output of: truss -t stat,open tip /dev/cua/0 will give us something to work with. Mike On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 12:54 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hi, I had no trouble with usb devices on native openindiana installations. Now I installed openindiana inside VMWare4.1 that supports

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] User roles and acting as root

2011-06-15 Thread Michael Stapleton
When I need a root terminal, I tend to simply: $sudo sh In a Solaris only environment I advise RBAC , but in a mixed Unix/Linux world, sudo makes more sense. With RBAC and root being a Role, we should su - to assume the root role. Mike On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 14:24 -0700, Gregory Youngblood

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backups and snapshots

2011-06-11 Thread Michael Stapleton
Am I reading it wrong or do you mean it drops off at 16MB, not 16 KB? Mike On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 09:44 -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: What was serving the nfs and iscsi? -Original Message- From: Gary [mailto:gdri...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 2:29 AM To:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] [illumos-Developer] OpenIndiana and illumos, part 2

2010-11-21 Thread Michael Stapleton
Very nice Gabriel. I for one would be happy to share a beer with you or anyone else who is on this list for that matter. I think it's safe to say that anyone one who is on this list is a little special. I think it's also safe to say that we all share a common desire to see this great OS continue

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stablity

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Stapleton
I have been using OI for development and as a production server and have had NO problems stability wise. On my laptop I found that the SMB service is preventing sleeping. If I disable SMB service, power saving works well. But, something is reenabling the service, OI is not unstable, we should stop