Re: [zones-discuss] Setting up a testing environment for a P2P application

2007-07-12 Thread Jeff Victor
Dennis wrote: > Thanks for your help. We decided to try it with 40 zones first, then we will > see if we can run some additional ones. However, there are some more question > I have. > - How can I measure the RAM usage of each zone? "prstat -Z" or, if you enable rcapd, rcapstat(1). > - After dis

Re: [zones-discuss] Setting up a testing environment for a P2P application

2007-07-12 Thread Dennis
Thanks for your help. We decided to try it with 40 zones first, then we will see if we can run some additional ones. However, there are some more question I have. - How can I measure the RAM usage of each zone? - After disabling a service, will it stay disabled after the reboot? - How can I mea

Re: [zones-discuss] Setting up a testing environment for a P2P application

2007-07-06 Thread Dan Price
On Fri 06 Jul 2007 at 01:10PM, Jeff Victor wrote: > >> > >> - We are planning to test 1000 nodes (=containers) on a 2 GB RAM > >> Athlon Dual Core 4.2 GHz machine. Is that possible? > > I'll make a stronger statement than JeffS: a Solaris container > requires at least 20MB of RAM to boot and start

Re: [zones-discuss] Setting up a testing environment for a P2P application

2007-07-06 Thread Steffen Weiberle
BTW, http://www.slamd.com/ might do what you need. And it is Java. I have used it in a zone to proxy LDAP requests between a client and LDAP server. But not with lots of connections. Dennis wrote: > Hi, > > a friend of mine has written a P2P application in Java as a master thesis. > Now we wan

Re: [zones-discuss] Setting up a testing environment for a P2P application

2007-07-06 Thread Steffen Weiberle
Besides what Jeff and Jeff has said, Dennis wrote: > Hi, > > a friend of mine has written a P2P application in Java as a master thesis. > Now we want to setup a testing configuration using containers to simulate the > function of each node. Therefore I have several question, any help is > appr

Re: [zones-discuss] Setting up a testing environment for a P2P application

2007-07-06 Thread Jeff Victor
Jeff Savit wrote: > Hi Dennis, > > You might not have enough RAM for 1,000. (Only 2MB/zone! Not counting > RAM needed for the kernel) For discussion, see Jeff Victor's blog > http://blogs.sun.com/JeffV/ especially the 3 entries titled "Spawning > 0.5kZ/hr". He reasched 1,000 zones, but he had m

Re: [zones-discuss] Setting up a testing environment for a P2P application

2007-07-05 Thread Jeff Savit
Hi Dennis, You might not have enough RAM for 1,000. (Only 2MB/zone! Not counting RAM needed for the kernel) For discussion, see Jeff Victor's blog http://blogs.sun.com/JeffV/ especially the 3 entries titled "Spawning 0.5kZ/hr". He reasched 1,000 zones, but he had more RAM. There are a few ker

[zones-discuss] Setting up a testing environment for a P2P application

2007-07-05 Thread Dennis
Hi, a friend of mine has written a P2P application in Java as a master thesis. Now we want to setup a testing configuration using containers to simulate the function of each node. Therefore I have several question, any help is appreciated - We are planning to test 1000 nodes (=containers) on a