Re: [zones-discuss] non global zone memory allocation enquiry

2008-08-21 Thread Jeff Victor
rcapstat(1M). On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Gauss Tang - Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Expert, We can check the zone memory allocation via command zonecfg -z zonename info capped-memory: physical: 256M But how to check this info after longin the zone? -- --JeffV

Re: [zones-discuss] [smf-discuss] 6725004 - installing single-user-mode patches automatically

2008-08-21 Thread Jordan Brown
Nils Goroll wrote: I suggest to introduce an additional milestone (e.g. milestone/ready) with optional dependencies on all system services, roughly matching the time when rc3 is run. That's much later than is desirable for these patches. The goal is to have the system as quiet as possible.

Re: [zones-discuss] [smf-discuss] 6725004 - installing single-user-mode patches automatically

2008-08-21 Thread Jordan Brown
[ Which brain-dead mail client turns all of the spaces in the Subject into tabs? ] Zones folks: the current proposed answers to this problem involve moving system/filesystem/local into milestone/single-user. That was apparently considered and rejected as the answer for the patchadd problem

Re: [zones-discuss] [smf-discuss] 6725004 - installing single-user-mode patches automatically

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Lawrence
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:54:14PM -0700, Jordan Brown wrote: [ Which brain-dead mail client turns all of the spaces in the Subject into tabs? ] Zones folks: the current proposed answers to this problem involve moving system/filesystem/local into milestone/single-user. That was

Re: [zones-discuss] [smf-discuss] 6725004 - installing single-user-mode patches automatically

2008-08-21 Thread Jordan Brown
Steve Lawrence wrote: I assume you are targeting this change for s10. Yes. The single-user milestone is intended to mimic the traditional unix run-level 1 (S?) Nit: Run level 1 is slightly different from S. This is typically where an admin would run stuff like fsck (on filesystems that

Re: [zones-discuss] [smf-discuss] 6725004 - installing single-user-mode patches automatically

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Lawrence
The list of use cases is really pretty simple: 1) Administrator has in hand a patch that says install in single user mode. What does this administrator do? The answer seems self-evident: take the system to single-user mode (either by booting the system in single-user mode using boot

Re: [zones-discuss] [smf-discuss] 6725004 - installing single-user-mode patches automatically

2008-08-21 Thread Jordan Brown
Steve Lawrence wrote: A. Make patchadd verify that the system is in single user milestone when installing a single-user patch. That's a non-starter. *Many* of our customers ignore our recommendation to install patches in single-user mode, and will revolt if we attempt to enforce it. In

Re: [zones-discuss] [smf-discuss] 6725004 - installing single-user-mode patches automatically

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Lawrence
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:01:43PM -0700, Jordan Brown wrote: Steve Lawrence wrote: A. Make patchadd verify that the system is in single user milestone when installing a single-user patch. That's a non-starter. *Many* of our customers ignore our recommendation to install patches in