[SunRescue] Sol8 install on sparc?

[James Lockwood]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, User Bobkeys BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:

> The SS5 has successfully installed CD1, and is chomping on CD2.
> It is not ejecting CD's well, though.  I will have to check on the
> platter slide alignment when the install is done.  Anything on that
> CDrom I should investigate for slow ejects?  The door only opens
> about half an inch on eject, and I have to pull it out manually,
> and reinsert manually.  I was not expecting it to be that way.

This is normal if you've got the 1/3rd height Toshiba 2x (blue faceplate).

> On the SS10 server end... how many users does the stock sol8 freebie
> install come up with, and will it work in server mode sufficiently
> well to serve web pages and how many concurrent users?  IFF it is
> throttled back to a 1 or user environment, then I will probably have
> to run up OpenBSD on the SS10.  Is that a bottleneck I need to be
> aware of ahead of time?

The Solaris 2.x kernel is scaled dynamically.  The kernel tunes itself
based (primarily) on the size of installed memory.  Provided you have a
reasonable amount of memory (64MB+) the default behaviour works very well.
I recommend a copy of "Sun Performance and Tuning" (IIRC) by Adrian
Cockroft, it's a useful tool for the library of any Solaris admin.

-James