Tuesday November 18, 2008 SVOSUG November Meeting will move to Tues., November 25th!
SVOSUG will move to Tues. next week due to Thanksgiving being on Thursday.
We will be offering to help folks install the most current OpenSolaris bits on their systems if you would like, on the metal or inside VirtualBox.
One most excellent feature that was just added to OpenSolaris is the ability to load/install with 512mb of memory. This not only holds true to install on laptops with less memory, but allows laptops with lower memory to host other environments within VirtualBox by only requireing 512mb of memory for the xVM.
I would also like to toss out some Lightning talks, and hope that others in the community will have some to add.
I have a couple lightning talks I will be giving, one on the new Fast Reboot added to build 100, and another on a couple tips to help your build performance.
If you have something your involved with on OpenSolaris, or something you've discovered, please feel free to give a short mention on it so that others might learn from it.
Bring a systems (to install), bring a talk, or just bring yourself, we'll meet in the Mansion on the Santa Clara campus next Tues., November 25th at 7:30pm.
Have you tried x86 Fast Reboot?
I was doing some non-scientific testing with the recent x86 Fast Reboot option which was added to reboot, thanks to Sherry Moore.
On one of my test systems I'm seeing about 32 seconds to reboot -f (1M) , opposed to 1 minute and 20 seconds for a typical reboot (1M). Systems are limited to being supported, since you need quiesce (9E) added to all drivers to allow the Fast Reboot.
If the only drivers without quiesce() support on the system are display and/or audio, you can set force_fastreboot=1 in /etc/system. If the NIC (wired or wireless) driver doesn't have quiesce(), you can unplumb the interface first then do fast reboot.
This is about 35% of a full reboot through BIOS on the machine I'm testing on. This is a system not running the desktop GUI, so mileage may vary.
This is very useful! The more we are able to work with systems to manage devices, we will have a more effecient system. Kudos to Sherry for this effort!