[zones-discuss] Re: Re: zone to zone networking slow!!

2007-01-04 Thread Gino Ruopolo
> Are both Zones running on the same storage? Maybe > you've moved your DB > to faster storage? no, same file system > Or maybe you've been playing with routing tables? no at all. gino This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zones-discuss mai

Re: [zones-discuss] Patching the system

2007-01-04 Thread Enda O'Connor
Shawn LEE C. H. wrote: Hi Quick question: I have a few sparse root container created with its own individual /var mount in different devices. During patching, I had shutdown the system to single user mode. Files under /var/sadm in global would have been updated to reflect the patch info and

Re: [zones-discuss] Mounting /var and /opt as filesystem in container

2007-01-04 Thread Detlef Drewanz
Brad, sorry for taking so long to answer - christmas time ;-) That problem is exactly Bug 6449301. The workaround is to "add fs" after the zones installation. Detlef On 12/21/06 22:21, Brad Diggs wrote: Hello Detlef, What I want to do is add a new non-gobal zone where the initial zone config

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Re: zone to zone networking slow!!

2007-01-04 Thread Jeff Savit
Gino Ruopolo wrote: Are both Zones running on the same storage? Maybe you've moved your DB to faster storage? no, same file system Or maybe you've been playing with routing tables? no at all. gino This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: zone to zone networking slow!!

2007-01-04 Thread Jeff Victor
Gino Ruopolo wrote: I have attempted to measure CPU overhead due to inter-zone networking using various tools, including DTrace and an internal network benchmark tool. Any overhead was so small that it could not be measured, and was always less than 1%. Could be present a "very high" networ

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: zone to zone networking slow!!

2007-01-04 Thread James Carlson
Jeff Victor writes: > 1. Global zone to global zone using 127.0.0.1: 125 Mbytes/s > 2. Global zone to global zone using 192.x.y.z: 124 Mbytes/s > 3. Global zone to non-global zone: 124 Mbytes/s > 4. Non-global zone to itself: 118 Mbytes/s > 5. Non-global zone to another

[zones-discuss] Re: Re: Re: zone to zone networking slow!!

2007-01-04 Thread Gino Ruopolo
> Just grasping at straws, but is there any chance that > the application > uses a different interprocess communication (not > TCP/IP) when in the > same zone and the interacting processes can 'see' one > another? > > regards, Jeff (not the first Jeff, a different > one...) Hi Jeff, I'm absolutel

[zones-discuss] Re: Re: zone to zone networking slow!!

2007-01-04 Thread Gino Ruopolo
> I would not read too much into those values, but I > think that it is safe to > conclude that there is little difference in network > performance among those > situations. The two situations you have described > are (4) and (5). In my setup I have about 1000 connection/s, not a single connect

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Re: zone to zone networking slow!!

2007-01-04 Thread Jeff Savit
When I get a chance, I'll reproduce many connections/s (instead of bytes/s) across zones, compared to intra-zone, using Apache's 'ab' tool, and report what I get. -- Jeff Gino Ruopolo wrote: I would not read too much into those values, but I think that it is safe to conclude that there is li

[zones-discuss] Re: Re: Re: zone to zone networking slow!!

2007-01-04 Thread Gino Ruopolo
> When I get a chance, I'll reproduce many > connections/s (instead of > bytes/s) across zones, compared to intra-zone, using > Apache's 'ab' > tool, and report what I get. -- Jeff that would be very similar to my setup. thankyou gino This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: Re: zone to zone networking slow!!

2007-01-04 Thread Jeff Victor
I look forward to seeing JeffS's results. Other tests I have done with multiple connections between multiple zones also showed no overhead. But those tests did not include large numbers of connection creations per second. But there really isn't any extra code if the packet is traveling betwee

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: zone to zone networking slow!!

2007-01-04 Thread Jeff Victor
James Carlson wrote: Jeff Victor writes: 1. Global zone to global zone using 127.0.0.1: 125 Mbytes/s 2. Global zone to global zone using 192.x.y.z: 124 Mbytes/s 3. Global zone to non-global zone: 124 Mbytes/s 4. Non-global zone to itself: 118 Mbytes/s 5. Non-global z

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: zone to zone networking slow!!

2007-01-04 Thread James Carlson
Jeff Victor writes: > Yes, I did. As I said in that msg, "don't read too much into those numbers." > > You went and read too much into them, didn't you? :-) Yeah, ok, I'm like that. ;-} -- James Carlson, KISS Network<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive

Re: [zones-discuss] Patching the system

2007-01-04 Thread Shawn LEE C. H.
Hi Enda Thanks for the reply... Would you be able to explain how the patching is done on halted zone specifically how the /var which is not mounted in the halted zone is being updated. Thanks! rgds shawn Enda O'Connor wrote: Shawn LEE C. H. wrote: Hi Quick question: I have a few spars

[zones-discuss] Sharing an IP Gateway on multiple Subnets

2007-01-04 Thread Daniel
Hi I'm flamboozled with something that doesn't seem like it should be so hard on a Solaris 10 11/06 webserver with sparse zones... I have 4 different subnets: A.B.C.0/29, D.E.F.0/29, G.H.I.0/29 etc. ... Only one of them currently has a gateway address, and I put the global's IP there leaving