Hi all,lately our E250 with 2gb running solaris 7 (kernel 106541-16) runs abit slowly. The box is quite loaded with oracle, mysql, someapache/php processes, samba and nfs serving. We noticed the slowdownwhen we loaded some webobjects java apps onto the box eating about300-700mb of ram ...

Hi Everyone,The following is a "long" output of pmap and pmap -x on a pid, before and after it was restarted. My question is why there are so much memory in heap section of the process before restart and what/where are those anon sections?Thank you and I will summarize,Vahid.BEFORE ...

Yes, I forgot to reboot before using metattach to attach the second subdisk.Here's a very detailed procedure below from Pierre.Thanks to everyone helped me out.> Hi Mt,> You should FIRST run your system on the metadevices (changes in vfstab ->> /dev/md/dsk...; reboot)> and THEN ...

Thanks to:Adam L.Lonnie R.Jennifer S.Asher F.Wade S.Steve P.Ed M.MarkMost comments are below with the original question at the end.A very humble thanks to all those who responded so quickly. With the exception of one individual, I received very helpful comments. Though the jury is still out, ...

I've added a second Sun network interface to aSunBlade 100 and Solaris won't recognize it. Theoriginal card is of course eri0. I'm not sure what itwould call it. The card is just a Sun 100 Base-TXcard. I'm running Solaris 8 10/01. I've looked in/etc/path_to_inst and it eri. I've tried ...

All:Okay, most of you had it. It IS an hme card. When Itried plumbing hme0 after doing the ol' touch/reconfigure and boot -r it said bad file number. Ilooked to make sure I had the drivers with grep hme /var/sadm/install/contents and hme was inthere with the SUNWcsu package which of course ...

Greetings Managers,We're trying to tune oracle queries on a Sun 4500 that's attached to a T3 diskarray. My oracle guy asked what is the maximum data blocks that can be readfrom the disk at one time. Wouldn't this be the block size specified in theinit*.ora file? Or the block size ...

Hi all: Such a simple question. Been searching for 40 minutes. Thought it was inmy notes. Thought sure it would be in one of the faq's. Just can't findit. Please help. The list of default scsi addresses that Sun's prefer for devices. I had itat one time. Thanks much for your time.Bob ...

we've got some interest in determining the impact that Veritas Volume Manager has on Sun Solaris systems - we've been using it for so long that it finally came up as a question, and I don't have an answer.Does anyone have any statistics from tests of standard disks vs Veritas controlled ...

As associate bought a 14-drive A5000 with 9GBs, and was surprised when itwouldnt recognize/or accept (not sure of specific reaction.. "it doesn'tlike them" he said) _36_GB drives.Anyone know:Is there a NVRAM/FW/EEPROM upgrade for it?Whats the biggest drive officially supported? (18s? ...

And the quick response goes to Andrew Caines. The answer I needed was:on the single bus, the common convention includes...3 Boot disk4 Tape6 CD-ROMThanks Andrew. Original query: >> Hi all: >> Such a simple question. Been searching for 40 minutes. Thought it wasin my notes. ...

does solaris 2.6 come with scsi driver for symbios cards?.<br>how about 2.5.1?.<p>_________________________________________________________________<br>Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: <A HREF=" http://messenger.msn.com/default.htm"> http://messenger.msn.com</A><br>

Original question is below.Thanks to: Lars Hecking ,system administration account, gabriel rosenkoetter andJustin Stringfellow.- Solaris is NOT POSIX compliant but closer than it used to be.- man standards- www.pasc.org buy POSIX standard from IEEE. The standard's open, ...

Gurus,I'm wondering if anyone can shed any light on this issue.If I check a process under lsof, I see that it has a number of files open on a filesystem, but it doesn't tellme the names of those files. However, it shows the inode,which allows me to run find /<FS> -inum <number> ...

Hi all,There is an error when I do a health check in the RAID Manager 6 :"Multiples fans or power supplies have failed. Note that on some RAIDModules the fans/power supplies are located in a tray called the controllermodule."Is there any error in my A1000 hardware ? How can I fix it ...

I just turned on E450 which was turned off for a long time...<br>Nobody here knows the root password.<br>Could anyone please point a link with a procedure to get or remove the root<br>password using console?<p>Isamar<br>

Hello all,Does anyone know a way to "team" two NICs (on the same card) to share oneIP address, for network fault tolerance ?I know this sort of thing is possible with Sun Trunking, but as far as Ican work out that needs the whole trunk to be connected to one switch, butwe'd like ...

hello!A week ago I had a strange hang and I cannot decide what caused this hang.This might look like an oracle problem, but I think this has something to dowith the operating system. Well, here is the long story:On this machine (a rather stripped Solaris 7 on a 420R) we have 7 separateinstances ...

Hello again!See below for original story/question.Thanks to Hans Engren [hans at swip.net] who told me this:------------In version 8.0.X up to 8.1.6 of Oracle, there is a problem running it onSolaris/UNIX. If your system clock ticks is set to milliseconds, the bugaffects systems with uptime of ...

Hello there,I need to add a small partition in order to use disksuite. Currently thewhole disk is being used and it's partitioned like this:filesys c0t0d0s0 2000 /filesys c0t0d0s1 8000 swapfilesys c0t0d0s3 3000 /a01/appfilesys c0t0d0s4 2000 /varfilesys c0t0d0s5 2500 /usrfilesys c0t0d0s6 5000 ...

Hi all,I have a V880 with Solaris 8 and latest 8_Recommended.zip patchset running 6internal disks with Disksuite 4.2.1.The 1st two have normal UFS filesystems them, and the other 4 disks are aRAID-0 Disksuite stripe.When we do Oracle 8.1.6.0 database imports (write intensive) the/dev/md/dsk/md9 ...

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Hi everybody !Sorry for the late summary, but I got tons of work to do at the moment (whohasn't ?)Anyway, it doesn't look so unfamiliar that a serial console could hang awhole server. Here is what other people told me: If you have the eeprom settings such that the hardwareflow control on the ...

Hello Admins Please me Information about make a Recovery/ Boot Tape For Solaris 8Thanks For all ( ( o o ) ).oooO--(_)--Oooo.Jose Cavalcante.Unix Solaris ConsultantE-Mail: unixsecurity at Phreaker.net>WWW: http://www.unixsolaris.8k.comPGP Key: "/aboutme/pgpkey.txtProviding: ...

Hello Managers,This may be an off topic question.Does any body have setup Unix cvs server and Windows client ?I have unix server ready with cvs repository2) samba is running on it3)wincvs is installed on NT2000 hosts4)Phyton and tcl is installedAll iwan't know is how to make wincvs to talk to ...

Thanks to:Bui Tri DamTristan BallMohd SaqibDavid FosterBen TierneyOriginal Posting:Hi,I would like to go in for hardware raid on a sun E450. Any limitations onthe hardware raid? What additional hardware do I need to procure apart fromthe standard server I got? Where do I get more ...

Hi,Sorry for this off topic question. Do anybody knows where to get/download an evaluation version of VeritasFS/VM/NetBackup for Solaris/Linux ? I need to learn and get familiar with these products as soon as possible!! I did not find the evaluation binaries (Solaris/Linux--if any !) onVeritas ...

The consensus was no, don't do it. The most specific answer coming fromHichael Morton:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Sun power supply's spec are different from a PC's. For best results check the specs very closely.Physically, the Sun ...

Hello Managers: Three systems: denali, shasta and whitney (the customer hasthing for mountains), all SunBlade1000's running well patched Solaris 8. NFS share defined on denali for /opt/local, to make commonly usedbinaries available to clients (shasta and whitney). Installed xfig ...

> Special thanks to Nasser Manesh:> Sorry about the delayed summary.> Answer 1 from Nasser:"system time" in top or uptime or time refers tosystem calls in general. There are a few processesthat dive into kernel mode and never returned, hencecommonly known as kernel processes, ...

I saw a post about pairing NIC's<p>Was there a summary? (I didn't see one) If not, could someone send a<br>summary?<p>Thank you,<p> Jennifer Stults<br>Unix Systems Administrator<br>

Two people suggested the following web sites:<br>

<A HREF=" http://www.opengroup.org/austin/default.htm"> http://www.opengroup.org/austin/</A> (I could not find anything on this site)<p>----<br>

Have your tried http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/ and if you use Visio enterprise they have lots of stuff on their template download page, so you might find something there.----Original Question:> > I'm looking for some detailed 2D templates for our E6500 server> which has a A3500 ...

I'm currently in the process of assembling a Oracle database on a Solaris<br>cluster using Veritas volume manager software.<p>Do I install the volume manager first on each node and then the cluster<br>software or the cluster software and then volume manager?<p>-Glen<br>

Does anyone have any idea why a ksh script might exit on logout even though it was run with nohup? I've verified that the parent shell has no traps, and I've even tried trapping SIGHUP to a dummy procedure within the script, but it always quits when the parent shell quits.Thanks,ChadChad ...

Hi,We are trying to run a webserver that connects to another DB machine throughdifferent connections. Thus we want: NIC#1 = HTTP requests & responses andNIC#2 = database queries & replies. The NICs have different IP addresses, butare connected onto the same subnet. We want the kernel to ...

Ok> boot cdrom<br>got:<br>Enter filename [kernel/unix] :<p>Pressing "return" is not helping.<br>ultra5/solaris2.6.<br>Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup<br><A HREF=" http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/default.htm"> http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com</A><br>

I'm running solaris 8 and want to increase descriptors from 256<br>to 1024 to accomodate and oracle database. What parameters do I set in<br>/etc/system and are there any drawbacks/considerations.<br>

First, thank you to all who replied !A5000 _will_ support 36 GB FC drivesOne of you pointed out all 14 drives must be same size.. cant mix disk sizes!Many of you suggested or stressed that there is firmware and patches for:the Interface Board (IB)andthe Drives themselves (AND yes, they must be ...

Hi,<p>Is it possible to setup in.ftp so that authenticated users can only see <br>their own home directory and nothing more?<p>Do i need to change in.ftpd?<p>Thanks,<br>

Thanks to all.Parameters to set are:rlim_fd_maxrlim_fd_curgeneral consensus was that 1024 for max was ok but be wary of going beyond that. Some users I have seen have went to 4096 and seem to be ok, but I suppose itis a matter of what binaries you choose to execute inyour ...

I'm running into a problem compiling 3.1. Build host is Solaris 9 with gcc2.5.3 from a Solaris 8 install.Has anyone gotten past this?make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `all'Current working directory/home/mrz/work/build/gcc-3.1/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/sparcv9/libstdc++-v3*** Error ...

Hello,I need some help configuring the jni fc64-1063 sbus adapter on a sparc20machine.I get the following error on bootJun 20 12:37:34 ksparc20a krtld: [ID 151736 kern.notice] /kernel/drv/fcawsymbol ddi_model_convert_from multiply definedJun 20 12:37:35 ksparc20a fcaw: [ID 451854 kern.warning] ...

All,I have an Oracle server that has 4 external A1000's arrays hanging off it.The drives in those arrays have been carved into various LUNs with eitherRAID5 or RAID0+1 configurations. On the E450 we are running Solaris 8 withthe RM6.2 that came with the arrays and Veritas is also ...

I just have to figure out the exact "route add" syntax and it should be fine!Thanks to Nathan Dietsch, Todd Urie & Frank Smith:One way to do it would be to add a host route to the DB server goingthough NIC#2.Add a default route using NIC1. That way, all other responses, ...

I am trying to enable a Netra X1 which has 2 network interfaces146.71.201.200/192.168.0.193 to act as a router across the interfaces. Ihave enabled in.routed on netrax1 with the -g option.netrx1# ps -ef| grep in.routedroot 318 1 0 11:21:15 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/in.routed -gnetrx1# ...

Is it possible to ping another node from the boot prom? No OS installed.<p>Thanks<br>

Hi All,Thanks to all that have responded, I apologize for not listing everyone asthere were quite a few. I've gotten somewhat varied and conflicting reports about performanceimprovements and degradation betwixt the various versions, but here are afew things everyone seems to agree on:Disk ...

Hi Everybody,<p>Please where can i find information about LDAP and how LDAP validate users,<br>how to implement in a installed system?<br>Someone has a link with documentation?<br>