[rescue] Sparcstation 20 - Dude, we're getting the band back together!

[Jonathan J. M. Katz]

Wow.

I wonder if this has to do with the various kernel changes between S8 and
S9. Not the MPO stuff (I don't think that applies to sun4m systems) but the
kernel's threading model changed from many-to-many to one-to-one(?) to eek
out more performance.

This shows how to enable one-to-one on Solaris 8. It may be worth a try to
do this to see if you can "break" your Solaris 8 setup.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg21107291

More background info:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0001.3/0238.html
http://www.j2ee.me/docs/hotspot/threads/threads.html
http://www.northco.net/chenke/project/solaris.html

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Sanford Barton <xc68000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys thank you for the help.  I posted this to sunhelp a couple of
> weeks ago and have been diligently working ever since.  This is the
> current status: