Processors in Solaris

Is there a way in Solaris, where I can allocate one of the processors to a Process (say Oracle server).
Thanks,
Ashok Raja.

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hi all,
while i am installing solaris 10 on x86 machine which has 250 GB hard disk and 4 GB RAM with intel dual core processor
the first steps are going cool i.e. in the first cd it asks about partitions and it is accepting the partitions and also the partitions sizes what i am giving are:
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file in / differ from the boot archive: /etc/path_to_inst
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I've checked the HCL and found some incompatibilities, but I don't know how to work-around these?
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Conexant
HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
No Solaris Driver
No Solaris Driver
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Intel Corporation
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No Solaris Driver
No Solaris Driver
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Intel Corporation
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Installing Oracle 8i in Solaris Intel Version With Pentium 4

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Dear Mr. Kumar, i am chandrasekaran from singapore, actualy i need your help regarding the intel sun os oracle. I have Intel Based SUN OS, but i try to get Oracle CD Any version either 8i or 9i for intel sun os.
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My address
S.Chandrasekaran, Blk 84 #07-93, Commonwealth close, Singapore 140084. If you have the cd you make one copy for me and send by post. Thank you
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There are two places to look for versioning information:
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That will return 11.0, 11.1, 11.2 etc
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The minimum OS version for 1.5 GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processors is Solaris 9 9/05 and Solaris 10 3/05 HW1
The minimum OS version for 1.35 GHz UltraSPARC IV processors is Solaris 8 2/04, Solaris 9 4/04, and Solaris 10 3/05
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Unfortunately systems that can be upgraded to UltraSPARC IV+ are beyond the scope of these user-to-user forums.
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I did some experiments both in primary domain and logical domain. In primary domain, both hv_niagara_getperf and ultra_getpic lead to panic, and in logical domain, hv_niagara_getperf return the ENOACCESS status and ultra_getpic lead to panic.
My question are:
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Please help me, indicate my fault and give me some advice or instruction. Thank you very much.

What I am going to do is programming with hardware performace counters of UltraSPARC T2+ processors in Solaris 10. I programmed a loadable syscall to invoke the hv_niagara_getperf or ultra_getpic, trying to get the counters' data. But there just comes a panic, unresponsive without any text notice, and then reset. I don't know what's the real causes because I am not very familiar with SUN servers.
I did some experiments both in primary domain and logical domain. In primary domain, both hv_niagara_getperf and ultra_getpic lead to panic, and in logical domain, hv_niagara_getperf return the ENOACCESS status and ultra_getpic lead to panic.
My question are:
1, If there is some initialization works or privilege settings to do to prevent panic?
2, If Logical Domain can be set privileges to access hardware performace counters? (I read the Hypervisor api manuals and it says only one domain can access performance counters. But vcpus is divided and allocated to different domains, every vcpu has its performace counters, how can I do to access their own performace counters in different domains?)
3, I know there are methods such as libcpc, cpc module, and pcbe module for users or develpers to get performace data. What I am working at is to make some threads performance tuning on UltraSPARC T2+, Is the overhead acceptable to use these library or modules supported by the OS architecture.
Please help me, indicate my fault and give me some advice or instruction. Thank you very much.

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I'm inserting about 14,000 rows in one transaction, each by calling a stored procedure that has only the insert statement with a sequence.next_val to generate the ID. I don't commit or rollback in the procedure.
I call the stored procedure using a PreparedStatement and batching the calls. After 14,000 calls to addBatch() I call executeBatch().
The order in which I call is determined by the application and is critical because we want the ids to match that order.
I see the order of the rows following the id's values does not match the order expected.
Luckily I can export the same data that is inserted to a file as a "preview" and after I saw the order problem in the inserted data I exported that preview file and I was puzzled to see the order is fine there. This is the same application and I did not even restart it.
Moreover, looking at the code, it is impossible to insert the data in the order seen in the table, mainly because the rows that are sent together are appearing interleaved with rows that were sent afterwards. There are no duplicate rows, just out of order.
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3) Is it possible that large batches are executed in parallel by the engine?
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The order in which I call is determined by the
application and is critical because we want the ids
to match that order.A table does not have "an order". Unless you specify an ORDER BY clause with your SELECT the order of the returned data is not specified and never guaranteed to remain the same.
Luckily I can export the same data that is inserted
to a file as a "preview" and after I saw the order
problem in the inserted data How die you export (i.e. retrieve) the data?
Did you supply an ORDER BY?

Weird exec failure

Hello,
This is not a DTrace question, rather a question about suggestions on how I could find more information (possibly with DTrace's help) related to the problem that I am going to describe:
One user has a simple Fortran program - one single source file. The user has about 15 copies of the source file, the difference between them being the value of a parameter. After he starts 12 such processes, when he tries to start another one the answer at the shell prompt is simply 'Killed'.
I assume nothing about what the program tries to do although I can get the source for it. What I tried to find out was why this process was killed.
The system on which the user tried this has 24 processors and runs Solaris 9.
First I thought it could be some resource limit, but I tried as root and the same thing happened ('Killed' when running more than 12 processes at the same time).
The BSM record for a failed exec looks like this:
============================================
<record version="2" event="execve(2)" modifier="fe" time="Sun Sep 12 01:38:19 EEST 2004" msec="914">
<path>/export/home/keyusers/vgrama/rez18.1.5</path>
<attribute mode="100750" uid="vgrama" gid="other" fsid="155" nodeid="4748945" device="0"/>
<exec_args><arg>./rez18.1.5
</arg></exec_args>
<subject audit-uid="vgrama" uid="vgrama" gid="keyusers" ruid="vgrama" rgid="keyusers" pid="23211" sid="20107" tid="0 52862 e420"/>
<return errval="failure: Resource temporarily unavailable" retval="-1"/>
</record>
=============================================
The 24 processor system on which I ran this has just been upgraded. Since I already have Sun ONE Studio 9 installed on other systems, I tried compiling and running the program on a 2-processor server, one running Solaris 9 as well. On this one, after running 3 processes concurrently I got the same message.
For the record, when running only one process, I can do ldd and the output is
==========
libf77compat.so.1 => /opt/SUNWspro/lib/libf77compat.so.1
libfui.so.1 => /opt/SUNWspro/lib/libfui.so.1
libfai.so.2 => /opt/SUNWspro/lib/v8plus/libfai.so.2
libfai2.so.2 => /opt/SUNWspro/lib/v8plus/libfai2.so.2
libfsumai.so.1 => /opt/SUNWspro/lib/v8plus/libfsumai.so.1
libfprodai.so.1 => /opt/SUNWspro/lib/v8plus/libfprodai.so.1
libfminlai.so.1 => /opt/SUNWspro/lib/v8plus/libfminlai.so.1
libfmaxlai.so.1 => /opt/SUNWspro/lib/v8plus/libfmaxlai.so.1
libfminvai.so.1 => /opt/SUNWspro/lib/v8plus/libfminvai.so.1
libfmaxvai.so.1 => /opt/SUNWspro/lib/v8plus/libfmaxvai.so.1
libfsu.so.1 => /opt/SUNWspro/lib/v8plus/libfsu.so.1
libsunmath.so.1 => /opt/SUNWspro/lib/libsunmath.so.1
libm.so.1 => /lib/libm.so.1
libc.so.1 => /lib/libc.so.1
libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1
/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/cpu/sparcv8plus+vis/libfai_isa.so.2
/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/cpu/sparcv8plus+vis/libfai2_isa.so.2
/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/cpu/sparcv8plus+vis/libfsumai_isa.so.1
/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/cpu/sparcv8plus+vis/libfprodai_isa.so.1
/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/cpu/sparcv8plus+vis/libfminlai_isa.so.1
/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/cpu/sparcv8plus+vis/libfmaxlai_isa.so.1
/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/cpu/sparcv8plus+vis/libfminvai_isa.so.1
/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/cpu/sparcv8plus+vis/libfmaxvai_isa.so.1
/opt/SUNWspro/prod/lib/v8plus/../cpu/sparcv8plus+vis/libfsu_isa.so.1
/usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-60/lib/libc_psr.so.1
==========
What surprises me is that even 'ldd <program>' doesn't work (after having enough instances of the process running)
=============
# ldd ./rez_1.5
ldd: ./rez_1.5: execution failed due to signal 9
=============
On a workstation (1 processor) with Solaris Express b58 I ran the command while doing a
dtrace -n '::*kill*:{printf ("Entered %s\n", probefunc);}'
in another shell. Nothing appeared, although ldd reported "execution failed due to signal 9" as well.
No matter what that program may be trying to do, this all seems weird to me. Am I wrong ?
Just getting a SIGKILL so abruptly ?
Any ideas ?
What other probes could be helpful for seeing signals while they are being sent ?
Thank you,
Vlad.

Once exec(2) has passed the point where the old
address space has been destroyed, the only way it can
fail is by killing the process itself. My bet is that
the program has a rather large BSS segment, and there
isn't enough swap to reserve the space. (ldd(1) works
by setting up some environment variables, then running
the program itself, which is why it would fail)
To verify this, you can run /usr/ccs/bin/size
/path/to/program The third field is the BSS
segment.
You are right:
$ size ./rez15
28468 + 940 + 1200000976 = 1200030384which is roughly 1GB.
You could also look at the proc:::exec-failure probe,
which will probably give the same answer BSM does --
EAGAIN.
What other probes could be helpful for seeingsignals
while they are being sent ? You should look at the proc provider -- in particular,
proc:::signal-send.Thank you very much for the answer.
I first thought memory could be the limiting resource. I dismissed the idea because vmstat showed a lot of free space. So did '::memstat' in mdb -k - reported 87% free.
Now that you told me what the problem is I see the only command that shows me I don't have enough memory is swap -s :
$ swap -s
total: 129136k bytes allocated + 11656752k reserved = 11785888k used, 3454144k availableWhich shows a lot of memory reserved.
And running ps -o vsz I can see 1 GB for each process.
In general I think the performance parameters from the output of commands like vmstat,mpstat,iostat,swap could be documented in more detail.
At least the basics.
For instance, could I find documentation on reserved memory ?
Thanks again for your reply,
Vlad

Dual-CPU motherboard programming

Hello, I would need to test a program on a dual-cpu (UltraSparc II) computer. Is there a mean to choose one of the CPU to execute my program? In both C and assembly language...
Thanks by advance.
Geraud

Hi,
Here is a proposed soln.
It is always an LWP (light weight process) that gets scheduled on a
processor in Solaris OS. So the soln is run your program on an LWP
(ie bound thread) and bind the lwp to a processor.
Here is the pseudo code..
void * foo();
main()
create a bound thread with funcion foo;
exit this thread (use thr_exit);
foo()
bind it to a processor using processor_bind
system call (man processor_bind);
execute what ever u want here....
exit the thread;
so when ever your program gets executed there is only one thread and
that thread is executing on only one processor.
Alternatively use pbind :)
Hope this helps.

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