Re: Unidata 6.05 - Redhat ES 2.1 (not AS) - solved

2004-03-04 Thread Adrian Merrall

   Dear All,

   The  patch  Wally  supplied runs the systest program during udtinstall
   and from our testing thus far all is well.

   Wally,  thank you for such prompt service.


   Regards,

   Adrian

   Auckland, NZ


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Re: Unidata 6.05 - Redhat ES 2.1 (not AS)

2004-03-02 Thread Wally Terhune





We have a patch for systest. While testing the limits of shared memory, the
original systest (on some - not all systems) will loop beyond some
pre-defined buffers and coredump. I emailed that privately to Adrian.

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IBM Data Management Solutions
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Dear All,

I will give IBM a call about this but thought I would ask the list first.
Before signing up for the most expensive RHEL AS option, I am checking to
see if 6.0.5 will run on RHEL ES 2.1.  This seems quite reasonable to me as
the 2 CPU limit on the ES product would suffice for many U2 sites.

The problem I have struck is the udtinstall script runs a program called
$UDTBIN/systest and on ES this segfaults as below.

IPC Facilities Test Results


Max # of Shmem Segments: 4091
# of Shmem Seg. Per Process: 4091
  Max / Min Shmem Seg. Size: 134217728 (128M) / 1
 SHMLBA: 4096 (4K)

Max # of Message Queues: 128
Max # of Bytes On Queue: 16384 (16K)
   Max Message Size: -1 (unknown)

Max # of Semaphores: 128
   Max # of Undo Structures: -1

Segmentation fault

This is a critical part of the install as it tests system memory parameters
and generates the udtconfig file.

The obvious answer is ES is not a certified release, AS is, but what
intrigues me is 6.0.5 is certified on pretty much everything else (7.1,
7.2, 7.3, 8.0, RHEL AS on 2 different kernels) so I'm curious as to why it
seems to fail on ES.  Redhat state that the WS/ES/AS versions are based on
the same core kernel, libraries and utilities.

I did manage a work around by commenting out the systest call in the
install script and copying a udtconfig file from a temporary install of
6.0.5 on 7.3 and a quick test shows Unidata starting and stopping OK and
doing some basic stuff but this isn't a solution I'd feel comfortable with.

The only idea I have as to why systest is failing on ES is I have stuffed
up the shared memory kernel settings (possibly) or it encounters some
function enforcing the CPU or memory limits on the ES product that aren't
present on the AS version or any of the other releases and chokes.

So, has anyone else attempted this and did they manage to find anything?

Thanks,

Adrian



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Unidata 6.05 - Redhat ES 2.1 (not AS)

2004-03-01 Thread Adrian Merrall
Dear All,

I will give IBM a call about this but thought I would ask the list first.  Before 
signing up for the most expensive RHEL AS option, I am checking to see if 6.0.5 will 
run on RHEL ES 2.1.  This seems quite reasonable to me as the 2 CPU limit on the ES 
product would suffice for many U2 sites.

The problem I have struck is the udtinstall script runs a program called 
$UDTBIN/systest and on ES this segfaults as below.

IPC Facilities Test Results


Max # of Shmem Segments: 4091
# of Shmem Seg. Per Process: 4091
  Max / Min Shmem Seg. Size: 134217728 (128M) / 1
 SHMLBA: 4096 (4K)

Max # of Message Queues: 128
Max # of Bytes On Queue: 16384 (16K)
   Max Message Size: -1 (unknown)

Max # of Semaphores: 128
   Max # of Undo Structures: -1

Segmentation fault

This is a critical part of the install as it tests system memory parameters and 
generates the udtconfig file.

The obvious answer is ES is not a certified release, AS is, but what intrigues me is 
6.0.5 is certified on pretty much everything else (7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, RHEL AS on 2 
different kernels) so I'm curious as to why it seems to fail on ES.  Redhat state that 
the WS/ES/AS versions are based on the same core kernel, libraries and utilities.

I did manage a work around by commenting out the systest call in the install script 
and copying a udtconfig file from a temporary install of 6.0.5 on 7.3 and a quick test 
shows Unidata starting and stopping OK and doing some basic stuff but this isn't a 
solution I'd feel comfortable with.

The only idea I have as to why systest is failing on ES is I have stuffed up the 
shared memory kernel settings (possibly) or it encounters some function enforcing the 
CPU or memory limits on the ES product that aren't present on the AS version or any of 
the other releases and chokes.

So, has anyone else attempted this and did they manage to find anything?

Thanks,

Adrian



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