Wonderful information! thanks! -----Original Message----- >From: Kurt Schreiner <[email protected]> >Sent: Jul 22, 2009 4:42 AM >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, SunRay-Users mailing list ><[email protected]> >Cc: Rob Giltrap <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] How long have Sun Rays been around? > >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 >_______________________________________________ >SunRay-Users mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
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