Hi Kevin, I believe that you cannot patch your way from U1 to U5 - i.e. that the system is missing some functionality that would be there if you had applied the updates - but your point is still valid. I will look into the correctness of using patch levels to detect feature availability.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Young, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff, > I am wondering about the logic in how the script identifies specific > versions. It appears that you are looking at /etc/release to define > this. This seems to limit some features of your script because I have a > Solaris 10 update 1 system that has been updated to 05/08 (update 5) but > /etc/release still reflects update 1 (updated using 05/08 patch bundle). > > I am using CPU caps but your tool doesn't recognize that I have that > feature available. Since these features really come from the kernel > version, would that be a better way to identify release version in your > script; Just a thought. > > In the meantime I tricked the script to think I am on update 5 and I am > getting better results. > > > -= Kevin =- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Victor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 9:01 AM > To: Young, Kevin > Cc: zones-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of > zones > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Young, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> I am curious if you have plans to make it Solaris 10 compatible. > > I do all development on Solaris 10. The script makes an effort to > distinguish between the different capabilities of the different > Solaris 10 updates. > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Victor >> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 5:54 PM >> To: zones-discuss@opensolaris.org >> Subject: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of > zones >> >> It has become clear that there is a need to monitor resource >> consumption of workloads in zones, and an easy method to compare >> consumption to resource controls. In order to understand how a >> software tool could fulfill this need, I created an OpenSolaris >> project and a prototype to get started. If this sounds interesting, >> you can find the project and Perl script at: >> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zonestat/ . >> >> If you have any comments, or suggestions for improvement, please let >> me know on this e-mail list or via private e-mail. -- --JeffV _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
