[csw-maintainers] [csw-buildfarm] BO Buildfarm available again

[James Lee]

On 13/01/10, 15:33:19, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote regarding 
Re: [csw-maintainers] [csw-buildfarm] BO Buildfarm available again:

> >> The T5220 is now split into two LDoms: One LDom with the existing
> >> Solaris 10
> >> instance carrying all of the Sparc stuff which was already there (now
> >> restricted to 12 GB Ram and 20 Strands) and one LDom with OpenSolaris
> >> 06/09 Sparc still installing with 3 GB Ram and 8 Strands.
> >
> > Any reason for the restriction?

> Because the machine doesn't have more resources ;-)

Excuse me the machine does, prior to enhancement each virtual machine
had 60% more available CPUs.


> There is also
> a control domain with 1 GB Ram and 4 Strands which sums up to
> 16 GB and 32 strands total.

Ah yes so LDOMs are restrictive.  Sorry I've only read the marketing
bumph which suggests resources are shared.  That is on the misleading
side of truthful as there is no dynamic sharing of CPU and memory.
Where load is sporadic as for build hard partitioning is a waste of a
good machine.




James.