Re: [osol-discuss] Can mysql be slower in a zone?

2009-04-10 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
Hello Nico When you see the slow performance, what do you see which you define as slow? What exactly are you measuring? When looking at the basics (CPU, IO, MEM) where do you expect the bottle neck to be? look at prstat -va iostat -xnczC 5 mpstat 5 vmstat 5 If the application do run better in

Re: [osol-discuss] Can mysql be slower in a zone?

2009-04-10 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Nico Sabbi nicola.sa...@poste.it wrote: Your post on the OpenSolaris forums suggest that you are running Some build/version of Open Solaris, though you did not specify this. Get updated to the latest version, and in the case of Solaris, get your patches

Re: [osol-discuss] Analysis: Why Linux prospers, Solaris dies?

2009-04-09 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
AIPAC? The most powerful organization in the world? Sorry, never heard of them. New Zealand, yes, soon the whole world will be New Zealand. Seriously, I agree with the below, but want to add: ROI = Potential revenue - Cost(Development, Maintenance, Marketing) Potential revenue =f(User-base)

Re: [osol-discuss] finding iowait processes

2009-01-05 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Johan Hartzenberg jhart...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:08 AM, casper@sun.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to find processes that makes the most iowait in system? iostat -xtc and iostat commands shows me that the system in iowait state

Re: [osol-discuss] finding iowait processes

2009-01-05 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:08 AM, casper@sun.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to find processes that makes the most iowait in system? iostat -xtc and iostat commands shows me that the system in iowait state but I need to find out which processes cause that.. iowait on OpenSolaris?

Re: [osol-discuss] Swap -a of a swap file on ZFS

2008-12-16 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Tamer Embaby t...@tsemba.org wrote: Martin, Thanks a lot! Yeah, this did the trick. One more question, do I have to add the below line to /etc/vfstab? Shouldn't swap -a do that automatically? Tamer No, you can manually add the line to /etc/vfstab - that

Re: [osol-discuss] Swap -a of a swap file on ZFS

2008-12-16 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Tamer Embaby t...@tsemba.org wrote: Hello all, I have a Solaris 10 U5 server with 3 partitions: 1- UFS for / 2- swap for swap space 3- the rest is used as ZFS pool (/zfs_pool) Now I need to add more more swap space using swap -a file and I don't have

Re: [osol-discuss] IMPT: Do not use SXCE Build 102

2008-11-16 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Derek Cicero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Due to the following bug, I have removed build 102 from the Download page. 6771840 zpool online on ZFS root can panic system It apparently may cause

Re: [osol-discuss] Account only available when LDAP is not?

2008-10-28 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Milan Jurik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Login is not cached and it's pam.conf relevant (mostly). I fail to see how this is more relevant to pam.conf than to name services, seeing as the OP asked for a solution which makes a local name service entry only

Re: [osol-discuss] Account only available when LDAP is not?

2008-10-27 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Josh Rivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does not seem to work and then local accounts (i.e. root) are not seen as valid ones unless LDAP is down (which is not what we need) We just need a single account to only be able to login if LDAP is down. I suppose I could

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab

2008-10-18 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Bill Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johan Hartzenberg wrote: cediag will put its results into the messages file if scheduled, or print a report on the console if executed manually. Whether you run it manually or scheduled via cron you in any case have

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab

2008-10-18 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Bill Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tool to display messages from the log file and alert me when there's an issue I should be paying attention to? There are many such tools. Look toward BMC Patrol, CA Unicenter/TNG, etc. I'm looking

Re: [osol-discuss] /home dir for myself

2008-10-18 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Ron Halstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The above is correct but don't make the mistake a few people make. The entry in /etc/passwd is still /home/username, not /export/home/username. Correct, and sadly this means you need to manually create then re-adjust the

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab

2008-10-17 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Dave Uhring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can the cron jobs in the crontab be modified to run at different times? crontab -e You can completely remove cediag (from crontab). It is a utility for analyzing Memory Errors, which based on a set of rules will report

Re: [osol-discuss] Maximum LUN size

2008-09-29 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Erik Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solaris detects these LUNS but it cannot use them. I get cannot open /dev/rdsk/c4$WWNdNp0 when trying to run fdisk. A Linux system has no problems using the same LUN. If I reduce the size to half it does work, but I

Re: [osol-discuss] Maximum LUN size

2008-09-29 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
I just found a documented answer: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Erik Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am exerimenting with ZFS on a fibre channel connected storage system and have run a minor annoyance. Ideally I would like to have all my storage exported as ~1.5 TB LUNS from

Re: [osol-discuss] Burn a bootable DVD

2008-09-29 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:59 PM, LevĂ­ Teodoro da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys I use OpenSolaris 2008.05 at my workstation and i will install Solaris 10 on my server. I am downloading the ISO for solaris 10. =) My question is simple : How can i do to create a bootable dvd with

Re: [osol-discuss] why should i have to modify the /etc/nsswittch.conf file?

2008-08-11 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Kaw Ay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks hartz. that kind of makes sense. shouldn't hostname resolution services be set to use DNS by default though? i mean, if my OS has firefox (or any browser) installed would it not seem logical that i would want to use

Re: [osol-discuss] why should i have to modify the /etc/nsswittch.conf file?

2008-08-10 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Kaw Ay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i then editted /etc/nsswitch.conf and modified the following line: hosts: files to this: hosts: files dns after this i could browse to google.com in firefox and resolve it via a host lookup what i dont

Re: [osol-discuss] I want to understand 'Boot Environment'!

2008-08-10 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
This interests me too. I don't have the answers, but can offer some of what I've learned. On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not so much a question of a specific problem, than one of concepts and limitations. If you look at the various posts of mine

Re: [osol-discuss] Can Solaris be discussed here?

2008-08-02 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
Hello Ming On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Ming Kin Lai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sun can write all the PR things they want to claim that they are not abandoning Solaris. But let's look at the real stuff. For example, I would refer you to a thread How to report bugs ? in Sun's General

Re: [osol-discuss] Reading ext3 filesystem from redhat branded zone?

2008-08-02 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Krenz von Leiberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to read an external hard drive with an ext3 filesystem from a redhat branded zone? Thanks in advance. No. Branded zones run Solaris, but with Linux-lookalike APIs. Therefore, no Linux kernel, and

Re: [osol-discuss] Reading ext3 filesystem from redhat branded zone?

2008-08-02 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Mike Gerdts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Johan Hartzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Krenz von Leiberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [osol-discuss] MultiBoot Anyone Any time Sometime?

2008-08-01 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Dave, for your confirmation of my intentions and assumptions, at least in general: 1. The limitation in handling multiple Solaris fdisk partitions is a function of the disk target driver. This is what I was

Re: [osol-discuss] grub boot order

2008-07-14 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
it is called menu.lst Look in /boot/grub :-) On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Cj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a search but cannot seem to find the grub.conf file on the opensolaris. What I want to do is change the timeout and the order. I want (for now) XP to be my default and

Re: [osol-discuss] USB drive for Linux - OS migration: file system?

2008-06-27 Thread Johan Hartzenberg
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/27 Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/27 W. Wayne Liauh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks; another migration-related question: I do have a