Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-25 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] To get around the problem pmap: cannot examine 5608: address space is changing and get a closer look, try stopping the process first: pstop 5608 and then running pmap or whatever to inspect it, and finally running prun 5608 to let it run again. Why is pmap not

Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-25 Thread Hugh McIntyre
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: [...] To get around the problem pmap: cannot examine 5608: address space is changing and get a closer look, try stopping the process first: pstop 5608 and then running pmap or whatever to inspect it, and finally running prun 5608 to let it run again. Why is

Re: [osol-discuss] Why are prices for Solaris 10 OS support not on Oracles Web pages?

2010-04-25 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Giovanni Tirloni) wrote: 2010/4/24 Matthias Pfützner matth...@pfuetzner.de So, if you have an entitlement, you then can buy Oracle Premium Support for Operating Systems. That Support enables you to get access to patches, updates, and in the case of OpenSolaris access to the /dev

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris on HP x86 servers

2010-04-25 Thread Matthias Pfützner
You (Tim Wright) wrote: I'm confused - when was that QuickSpec doc published? Don't know, the doc itself says something like March, 19th... We had our account team in again a couple days ago, with the news (as of 2am that day) that... 1) Solaris would no longer be supported on G7 hardware

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris on HP x86 servers

2010-04-25 Thread Tim Wright
Hi Matthias, Thanks for the response - the info came directly from HP. I believe our senior management have been in discussion with some pretty senior Oracle folk, so hopefully we'll get a definitive statement soon. I'm still seeing a lack of concise/clear communication, let alone the FUD we

Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-25 Thread Casper . Dik
A 32-bit process _can't_* be bigger than 4GB, and as far as the kernel is concerned, AFAIK won't be bigger than 2GB in terms of regular memory (although it could have a frame buffer or something mapped in the part of the address space reserved for I/O devices, making its total size perhaps appear

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris on HP x86 servers

2010-04-25 Thread Bob Palowoda
What are you doing with these WorkStations or Desktops? Are there production services running on them, or are they development and desktop tools? Because: The Solaris 10 download includes a development and evaluation license. So, anyone running Solaris 10 on laptops or desktops is

Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-25 Thread Yves Huang
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton rlha...@smart.net wrote: [...] To get around the problem pmap: cannot examine 5608: address space is changing and get a closer look, try stopping the process first: pstop 5608 and then running pmap or whatever to inspect it,

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-04-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Robin Axelsson When I try to ssh to my server, it takes a long time before it asks for a password (about a minute), and takes a long time to connect after the password is

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris on HP x86 servers

2010-04-25 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 24/04/2010 17:07, Paul Floyd wrote: What are you doing with these WorkStations or Desktops? Are there production services running on them, or are they development and desktop tools? Because: The Solaris 10 download includes a development and evaluation license. So, anyone running Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Why are prices for Solaris 10 OS support not on Oracles Web pages?

2010-04-25 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 24/04/2010 16:25, Matthias Pfützner wrote: Rule: You need an entitlement to run Solaris/openSolaris in a PRODUCTION I think/hope you are wrong here and you can run Open Solaris in production on any hardware you want without paying anything . Then while Oracle offers support for Open

Re: [osol-discuss] Why are prices for Solaris 10 OS support not on Oracles Web pages?

2010-04-25 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 25/04/2010 14:43, Robert Milkowski wrote: On 24/04/2010 16:25, Matthias Pfützner wrote: Rule: You need an entitlement to run Solaris/openSolaris in a PRODUCTION I think/hope you are wrong here and you can run Open Solaris in production on any hardware you want without paying anything .

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-04-25 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2010-04-25 02:50, ken wrote: On 04/24/2010 08:32 PM Robin Axelsson wrote: But seriously, why do I need a (Fully Qualified) Domain Name for every computer I want to run an SSH server on? That's outright ridiculous! I want to run SSHd on a server without a domain name. Under normal

Re: [osol-discuss] Problem: Slow ssh login to server

2010-04-25 Thread Robin Axelsson
On 2010-04-25 14:03, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Robin Axelsson When I try to ssh to my server, it takes a long time before it asks for a password (about a minute), and takes a long

[osol-discuss] On screen keyboard

2010-04-25 Thread Peter Jones
As a partially sighted person I have been testing the on screen key board from start up.I have two questions... The blue background is of little help in enhancing definition for partially sighted people,would it be possible to change the background colour and translucency? Perhaps to mirror

Re: [osol-discuss] URGENT: Kernel lets 32bit process consume 4G memory?

2010-04-25 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[...] Recent ksh93 has a lot of built-in commands that used to require running external programs. Is there any documentation about this feature? The ksh93 man page includes some (but perhaps not all) information about builtin commands. The ksh93 built-in command builtin will list all

[osol-discuss] Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta3 Released

2010-04-25 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta3, the final beta release in the NCP3 cycle. You can download the latest iso image from http://www.nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/DownloadUnstable The main changes over the Beta2