Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-19 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua D. Drake Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 6:18 PM To: Larry Rosenman Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for? It will have CentOS 4.4 X86_64 as the base os with VMWare Server running

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-09 Thread Adrian Maier
The other platform I've whined about missing for some time is HP-UX, especially on PA-RISC. But that's a whole different story. there are more obscure and rare platforms(both in terms that might be a win for the buildfarm but HP-UX is really missing. Hello, I have access to a PA-RISC

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-09 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Adrian Maier wrote: The other platform I've whined about missing for some time is HP-UX, especially on PA-RISC. But that's a whole different story. there are more obscure and rare platforms(both in terms that might be a win for the buildfarm but HP-UX is really missing.

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-09 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Adrian Maier wrote: I have access to a PA-RISC machine running HP-UX 11.11. Unfortunately the machine is on a dedicated network and has no Internet access. It should be possible to create a mirror of the CVS repository on my machine (which has access to both the Internet and the dedicated

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Lane
Larry Rosenman ler@lerctr.org writes: I think I'll be able to set up my HP-UX 11.11 box here, as soon as it gets fixed, and assuming either the bundled compiler will work or I can get GCC on it. If the bundled compiler is still the same non-ANSI-C weakling that was bundled in HPUX 10, there's

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-09 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Tom Lane wrote: Larry Rosenman ler@lerctr.org writes: I think I'll be able to set up my HP-UX 11.11 box here, as soon as it gets fixed, and assuming either the bundled compiler will work or I can get GCC on it. If the bundled compiler is still the same non-ANSI-C weakling

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, I'll see what I can do on the NetBSD and Solaris fronts. IMO, the Solaris one is probably more important than NetBSD. Solaris is taken care of ... should be online in a week or two. Sun DBTG Q.A. set up in the Sun labs: Solaris 9 + Sparc + SunCC Solaris 8 + Sparc + SunCC Solaris 10

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-07 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Josh Berkus wrote: Folks, I'll see what I can do on the NetBSD and Solaris fronts. IMO, the Solaris one is probably more important than NetBSD. Solaris is taken care of ... should be online in a week or two. Sun DBTG Q.A. set up in the Sun labs: Solaris 9 + Sparc +

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Devrim Gündüz
Hi, On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 01:23 -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: The other thing to consider is that CentOS 5 has Xen built right in, so you should be able run VMs without VMWare on it. ... if the kernel of the OS has Xen support, there will be no performance penalty (only 2%-3%)

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Marko Kreen
On 4/6/07, Larry Rosenman ler@lerctr.org wrote: I am willing to run any X86 or X64 OS's in VM's as buildfarm clients. What OS's do we need coverage for? Cannot say about OS, but could you run it with Python 2.5? 64bit interface changed there and it would be interesting to see if it still

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Matthew O'Connor
Devrim Gündüz wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 01:23 -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: The other thing to consider is that CentOS 5 has Xen built right in, so you should be able run VMs without VMWare on it. ... if the kernel of the OS has Xen support, there will be no performance penalty

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, ... if the kernel of the OS has Xen support, there will be no performance penalty (only 2%-3%) (Para-virtualization). Otherwise, there will be full-virtualization, and we should expect a performance loss about 30% for each guest OS (like Windows). I may be wrong but I thought that the

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Paul Lindner
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 06:28:39PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: I might use that as the base then, since the hardware finishes getting here tomorrow. My question still stands on what OS's we need coverage for. I can provide coverage of SuSE Enterprise 9/10 on i386/x86_64. I just filled out

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Matthew O'Connor wrote: Devrim G??nd??z wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 01:23 -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: The other thing to consider is that CentOS 5 has Xen built right in, so you should be able run VMs without VMWare on it. ... if the kernel of the OS has Xen

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Larry Rosenman wrote: It doesn't matter as far as MY box is concerned. I use VMWare extensively in my current $DAYJOB, and I want to be able to test/play with things related to that as well. The box I'm building will be using the (free) VMWare Server as it's virtualization platform. I'd

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Larry Rosenman wrote: It doesn't matter as far as MY box is concerned. I use VMWare extensively in my current $DAYJOB, and I want to be able to test/play with things related to that as well. The box I'm building will be using the (free) VMWare Server as it's

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Larry Rosenman wrote: It doesn't matter as far as MY box is concerned. I use VMWare extensively in my current $DAYJOB, and I want to be able to test/play with things related to that as well. The box I'm building will be using the (free) VMWare

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: Larry Rosenman wrote: It doesn't matter as far as MY box is concerned. I use VMWare extensively in my current $DAYJOB, and I want to be able to test/play with things related to that as well. The box I'm building will be

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
VMWare Server is indeed a fine product, which I use extensively. I am not sure what our Windows support is like for x86_64. Magnus has one for MSVC (for which buildfarm support is nearly done, but not quite). But I don't see one for MinGW. OTOH, Windows is not free (in either sense) and

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Dave Page
--- Original Message --- From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06/04/07, 15:33:20 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for? yeah improving windows coverage might be a nice thing - some other I'm awaiting

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Tom Lane
Larry Rosenman ler@lerctr.org writes: I'd still like to hear from a Tom Lane or someone else on the project with what X86 or X86_64 OS's we need coverage for. FWIW, I think we are more in need of coverage of different configure-option sets than of OS's per se.

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: FWIW, I think we are more in need of coverage of different configure-option sets than of OS's per se. If someone would like to put together a list of gaps we can see what we can do about it. For anyone who wants the data on what is being built currently, the dashboard

[HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-05 Thread Larry Rosenman
I'm in the process of building a new box that will have Dual Xeon 5120's (Dual Core), and 4G of ram and 2.4T of disk (6x400G SATA). It will have CentOS 4.4 X86_64 as the base os with VMWare Server running on it. I am willing to run any X86 or X64 OS's in VM's as buildfarm clients.

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
It will have CentOS 4.4 X86_64 as the base os with VMWare Server running on it. I am willing to run any X86 or X64 OS’s in VM’s as buildfarm clients. What OS’s do we need coverage for? CentOS5 hits ina couple days. J LER -- Larry Rosenman

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-05 Thread Larry Rosenman
Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3893 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua D. Drake Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 6:18 PM To: Larry Rosenman Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-05 Thread Chris Browne
ler@lerctr.org (Larry Rosenman) writes: I might use that as the base then, since the hardware finishes getting here tomorrow. My question still stands on what OS's we need coverage for. I've got Debian testing/unstable covered. I'm not sure we have Novell/SuSE covered... -- output =

Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-05 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Larry Rosenman wrote: I might use that as the base then, since the hardware finishes getting here tomorrow. The other thing to consider is that CentOS 5 has Xen built right in, so you should be able run VMs without VMWare on it. ---(end of