On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:50:43AM +0200, Kent Peacock wrote:
> On 07/21/09 16:14, Rob Giltrap wrote:
>
> > I was involved with the deployment of nearly 1000 SunRays at Sun's new
> > UK campus around July 2000. Other than a few replacement units they are
> > all still the originals AFAIK. Certainly when talking to potential
> > customers they really have trouble believing they don't need to be
> > replaced in 3-5 years. Would be nice to have some real proof of their
> > longevity (both in terms of the units and the architecture).
>
> It would seem my little survey constitutes that proof.
And just another "data point" ;-)
We got our's in December 1999 (E450 w/ 25 DTUs). This system is still
running, serving library clients as search frontend for our OPAC.
(Mildly hacked CAM with mildly hacked firefox.)
A batch of DTUs was replaced due to the famous "capacitor bug" and we
added some SR150s and another batch of SR1s later. Today there are
>-253: sudo pntadm -P 192.168.128.0 | wc -l
62
entries in DHCP and
>-254: sudo utsession -p | grep pseudo | wc -l
49
active sessions running on
>-255: egrep Model Sun_Ray-Info | uniq -c | sort -k4,4
22 Model = SunRayP1
13 Model = SunRayP3
6 Model = SunRayP4
6 Model = SunRayP5
in a campus-wide VLAN.
The E450 got 2GB of RAM in the meantime, load is "ok" for what it's
doing:
last pid: 21871; load averages: 1.42, 1.30, 1.23 09:59:57
1091 processes:1090 sleeping, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 68.3% idle, 16.2% user, 15.5% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 2048M real, 223M free, 1722M swap in use, 2784M swap free
The system is up for
>-256: uptime
9:55am up 1041 day(s), 23:05, 4 users, load average: 1.35, 1.34, 1.23
Solaris is at (with some patches and additions, last updated early 2002 ;-)
>-258: cat /etc/release
Solaris 8 2/02 s28s_u7wos_08a SPARC
Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Assembled 18 December 2001
and SRSS is version 1.3
>-260: pkginfo -l SUNWutu
PKGINST: SUNWutu
NAME: Sun Ray server Configuration, (usr)
CATEGORY: system,sunray
ARCH: sparc
VERSION: 1.3_12.c,REV=2001.07.16.20.52
BASEDIR: /usr
VENDOR: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
DESC: Sun Ray server Openwindow configuration and ddx driver
PSTAMP: SunOS_5.6_20010716212712
INSTDATE: May 27 2002 15:05
HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider
STATUS: completely installed
FILES: 18 installed pathnames
13 shared pathnames
13 directories
3 executables
797 blocks used (approx)
As people ask for more of this "little nice boxes" all the time, we are in
the process of replaceing this "old gui" with newer hardware (v440), but
customizing an actual version of firefox to do "the right things" has still
to be done (despite the nice work mentioned eg. on
http://blogs.sun.com/ThinkThin/category/CAM+%28Kiosk%29)
If there are any questions, feel free to ask.
Kurt
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