[SunRescue] help a guy run 2.6 on his 670MP
Brian Hechinger
rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu May 17 08:45:50 CDT 2001
>> Sun 690MP with 2000+ days uptime when i powered it off. unpatched standard
>> solaris 2.5.1
>
> VERY impressive uptime! 8-)
yeah, it was such a shame to have to shut it off. oh well.
>> stable? i tend to think so.
>
> Entirely different application. Our biggest problem, if memory
> serves, was memory leaks in the C library.
> -Dave McGuire
ahhh, you were dealing with those long running proccesses. yeah, the quick
use this compiler which exits immediately thing helps to avoid memory leaks.
> I found that 2.5.1 wasn't stable enough for production use when
> attempting to put a very heavily-hit apache/php/database load on it.
> The hardware was an SS20/71 with 384MB RAM.
i've never attempted to use it that way, since i didn't get into the intenet
business until 7 was released.
> I went back to NetBSD and have been happy ever since. Though
i'm a huge fan, i think NetBSD rocks.
> currently I'm developing an application under Solaris7 because I
> wanted to make use of the Ultrasparc's VIS instruction set. While
> it's nowhere near as "clean" as a nice modern NetBSD load, I'm
> impressed with Solaris7 so far. And that's a lot coming from a
> long-time Solaris hater like me.
> -Dave McGuire
try 8, i thought i was impressed with 7 until 8 Final was released. i'm very
very very very impressed, and that's a lot soming from a guy who thought 2.5.1
was the only way to go if you weren't going to install NetBSD. :)
> VIS instruction set? Is that like MMX? If so, it shouldn't be too hard
> to add support under NetBSD, should it? Or does NetBSD only run in 32bit
> mode and VIS in 64bit mode?
> Joshua Boyd
Dave answered your VIS question, so all i have to add is: NetBSD does in fact
work in 64-bit mode. i just don't think Sun has released enough documentation
on VIS for the NetBSD crew to get it working. ICBW.
-brian
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