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13037   Kernel roadmap   28 Sep 2000

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Kernel Roadmap
Updated 9/00  

Category: adb/kadb

    SRDB Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:        
     3615    any      adb script for dev_info structure
     4104    any      Using adb   tips

    INFODOC Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:          
    13522    2.5      Setting kmem flags in Solaris 2.5

Category: Config  
                                                         
    SRDB Documents: 
     Doc #    V.      Description:         
     2131    4.x      How to increase inodes when inode table is full
     3184    2.x      setting maxusers value in Solaris 2.x
     3390    4.0      Increasing available mblks
     3668    4.0.3    Running make on a kernel gives undefined symbols
     4016    4.0.3    system crashes using swap space file created by mkfile
     4290    4.1      pstat  f returns "number of files is preposterous"
     4461    4.1.1    ipi_channel: channel 0 already def., bad trap
     4462    4.1      Unable to start any new processes: proc table
     5105    4.x      Making a kernel fails with error messages
     5226    4.x      How to increase file descriptors to 256 in SunOS 4.x
     5228    4.x      Why is memory usage different when booting the same kernel
     5351    4.x      how to raise the number of file descriptors
                      (Note: info needs to be combined w/5226, then remove this doc)
     5381    4.x      reconfiguring 4.1.2 kernel fails with undefined symbols
     6184    4.x      keyboard repeat rate
     6309    4.x      external time synchronization method
     6313    2.x      chown will not let a user reset owner
     6335    2.x      disabling tagged queueing
     7317    4.x      configuring os4.1.3 kernel with 256 ptys         
    10221    2.3      cachefs cache parameters
    10254    2.x      enable disable scsi options /etc/system
    11112    2.4      How to change file descriptor limit in Solaris
    11459    2.x      possible problems with patch 101714 03
    11482    2.4      Hang vold errors and system hangs at boot
    11619    2.x      kernel memory exhaustion due to bufhwm value
    11810    4.x      How to increase PTY's on 4.1.X systems
    12053    2.4      SCSI transport failures from timeout, reset
    12058    2.4      How to change the hostname of machine?
    12075    2.x      How to configure the IPC semaphores and shared memory
    12415    1.x      Error reading the kernel VM
    12947    4.1.3_U1 SS5 with 1 32Mbyte SIMM running 4.1.3_U1 panics
    13419    2.x      System Panics with: 'freeing free frag' ... 
    13425    4.x      Why is 4.x limited to 8 tape units?  (1996)
    13433    2.x      /var/adm/messages empty
    14177    1.x      How can I modify the size of the process table
    14410    4.1.4    Cusotmer having trouble making kernel on 4.1.4
    14740    2.4      ENOMEM The available data space is not large enough to 
    		      accommodate the shared memory segment
    14765    4.1.4    how to tell cpu mhz using devinfo,module info
    14955    2.x      How to tell how many ptys are configured/used
    14974    n/a      Attempt to access disk on multipack causes error assertion denied
    15318    2.x      How to enable async i/o under Solaris?
    15598    2.x      Oracle can't allocate more than 254 mb of shared memory
    15877    2.x      setuid programs won't generate a core file
    15952    2.5.1    Unable to read CD ROM media
    16066    2.x      ps command fails with no controlling terminal
    17181    2.x      Oracle is telling customers to tune MAXASYNCIO in Solaris 2.x
    17352    2.6      WARNING: Firmware does not support Dynamic Reconfiguration
    17359    2.x      /usr/lib/power/powerd: shmget: invalid argument
    17501    2.x      changed parameters in /etc/system (i.e. rlim_d_max) have no effect 
    		      after reboot
    18043    2.6      Reallocation failure error in ySpace( )
    18552    2.7      How to boot to the 32bit kernel on Solaris 7
    20267    2.5.1    Commands hang on Large Enterprise Servers : C

    INFODOC Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:          
     2160    4.x      Why and how do I reconfigure my kernel?
     2167    4.x      Kernel variables/capacities and limits
     4332    4.x      How to use more than 48 pseudo ttys?
     5227    4.x      Explanation of file descriptors in 4.1.1 and SunOS/DBE
     5432    4.x      How to make Sun4m uniprocessor machine
     6331    2.x      Verifying tunable parameters set in /etc/system
     7314    any      increase the number of ptys under Solaris 2.3       
    10172    any      Resource limits of process are inherited from parent
    10601    any      Difference between model 50 and 51
    11755    4.x      Out of mbufs:  How to determine the source of the leak
    11823    2.4      Boot flags on 2.4 systems (Note: article needs to have flags 
    		      explained in externally available portion)
    11832    any      Compatibility Matrix for platform vs OS releases
                      (NOTE: needs to be updated for 5.5, new systems
    11877    2.x      How much swap space do I need?
    11263    4.x      How to reconfigure the kernel for 4.x systems
    11895    2.x      Can I limit the size of /tmp independently 
    11896    2.4      nautopush and sadcnt explained  (1995)
    11819    4.1      How to rebuild the kernel on 4.1.X
    11827    any      How to enable savecore under 4.1.X
    11900    2.4      Do I have to reconfigure the kernel 
    11915    2.x      List of tunable parameters for Solaris 2.3 through 2.6
    11919    4.x      On 4.1.X how high can I set MAXUSER?
    11921    4.x      How to change the buffer cache in 4.1.x?
    11947    any      Solaris < > SunOS name mapping
    12172    2.x      How to set up kernel memory flags to detect memory corruption
    12219    any      SunOS/Solaris Compatability Matrix  (11/98)
    12571    4.x      kernel config troubleshooting and common error msgs
    13194    any      How to find out the system CPU and FPU  
    13258    2.x      Enabling deadman kernel code
    13412    4.x      How to restore the 4.x kernel via add_service
    13413    2.x      How is a User Process Defined in Memory?
    13423    2.x      What is max number of files per filesystem?
    13424    any      What is the maximum number of ptys that can bconfigured on 4.x and 5.x?
    13427    4.x      How do I find the swap space usage on 4.x?
    13432    2.x      How can I translate the pseudo disk names (ie: sd3) to standard 
        	      disk names (/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7)?
    13484     2.4     How to check if a system has Solaris 2.4 11/94 or 3/95 HW
    13507     2.x     How do you verify which processes are both swapped and runnable for Solaris 2.x?
    13518     2.x     Instructions for disabling sync under 2.4
    13900     2.x     Kernel memory limit for Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1 and 2.6
    15087     1.x 2.x How to determine the CPU speed on a SPARC machine
    15095     2.4     sd driver taq queueing/sd_max_throttle
    15206     2.5.1   10000's Correctable Error reporting not enababled
    15484     2.5.1   Limiting the size of a panic dump under Solaris 2.5.1
    15935     2.x     How to adb the kernel to change rlimits parameters
    16226     2.5.1   How to keep from a reset of device numbers when moving token ring card
    16360     2.x     How Many Files Can There Be In a tmpfs File S
    16363     2.6     How to turn on hires timer in Solaris 2.6
    16364     2.x     Root filesystem size limits
    16796     2.x     Using ngroups_max to tune groups
    16987     2.6     Excerpts from Sunworldonline, Swap space impl
    17638     2.x     Configuring disk based swap space on today's
    18294     2.6     Disabling keyboard interrupts
    20151     any     UNIX Kernel Stack Overflows
    21513     any     Why (and how) it is important to configure  your tape device drivers

Category: #core dump analysis

    SRDB Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:       
    11964     2.x     Sending core dumps to alternate dump devices

Category: crash                                                                

    SRDB Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:      
     3414     4.1     panic: data fault in resume()   invalid u.u_pcb.pcb_psrp
     3524     4.0.3   correctable ECC errors on 3/260 or 3/280 cause crashes
     4625     any     Panic 1111 emulator trap when booting
     4659     4.x     Understanding savecore and accompanying instr
     4893     4.1.1   watchdog reset window underflow on ELC 4/25 f
     4966     any     Bad jumper on Xylogics tape controller causes
     5230     4.x     3/280 writeback error occurs with multiuser b
     6467     2.x     savecore is enable, but a coredump is not pro
                      add info about minfree
    10170     2.x     To save crashdump when machine panics at kadb
    10712     2.2/3   system crashes with: panic: ufs_putpage: bn==
    14842     2.x     How to create a core file from a hung machine
    14929     2.5.1   Privilege Violation on ASI error
    15372     2.6_x86 netatalk with driver ddp when started from X8
    15506     2.5.1   UPS can cause Ultra 2 going down to OBP level
    15523     2.x     dump device bad when saving core on encapsula
    15526     2.x     System keeps going down with Windows NT machi
    15645     2.5     What is the routine sys_tl1_panic()
    15824     2.5+    send_mondo: timeout panic
    16407     2.6     Panic after vxvm upgrade
    16421     4.1.4   Panic on cpu 0: valloc'd past tmpptes
    16814     2.6     Ultra 450 crashes on bootup with a 3rd party
    18069     2.6     SunVTS causes "trap" panic  in Solaris 2.6
    18847     2.5.1   Panic: vx_new_attr caused by VXFS 3.2.5 &  HS
    20724     2.x     The panic string "Async data error at tl1" in

    INFODOC Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:     
     2164     4.x     Crash dump analysis
     2168     4.x     Kernel emulator trap error messages
     2169     4.x     Kernel failure messages
     2225     2.2     vmcore file first reading script for 2.2
     2252     4.x     script for reading of vmcore files on 4.1.X machines
     2699     any     system crash/hang data collection sheet
     6332     2.x     how to enable savecore in Solaris 2.x
     6516     any     panic: unable to allocate segkmap          
     7113     any     how to determine cause of a system fault at ok prompt
    10214     2.3     Initial system crash dump analysis for Solaris 2.3
    11816     2.x_86  How to force crashes on Solaris X86 machines
    11834     2.x     What is a watchdog reset?
    11835     any     What information do I need to include with corefiles
    11837     any     How to force a crash when my machine is hung?
    11838     any     What is a panic zero.
    12031     2.x     Capturing system hangs and crashes on Solaris 2.x
    12936     any     Troubleshooting system crashes
    12937     any     kas utility
    13089     2.4,2.5 Solaris 2.4, 2.5 initial system core dump ana
    14230     xx      System Crashes and How to Prepare for Coredump Analysis by Sun Service
    14131     any     What does "cross call at high interrupt level
    14133     any     kernel tips: Is system crash due to hardware
    14138     2.x     kernel tips: Use of the ps command in corefil
    14139     2.x     kernel tips: What causes a " recursive mutex_
    14171     any     kernel tips: Causes of asynchronous memory fa
    14172     2.x     Why is a corefile created at bootup when the
    14229     any     sendcores, a script to prepare system files f
    15085     2.x     Alternate console using tip
    15553     2.5_x86 Forcing a kernel core dump on an x86 system
    15993     any     Hardware panic strings
    17152     2.x     watchdog FAQ
    18546     2.x     How to fix panics from "freeing free frag" or
    18594     2.x     What can be done with a partial core file?
    18890     any     Analyzing freeing free inode/frag/block panic
    21554             Kernel memory caches used by VxFS and UFS

Category: DBE

   SRDB Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:     
    12385     4.x     Is SunDBE available for SunOS 4.1.3_U1 and 4.1.4
    16387     4.1.4   4.1.4_DBE: fail to make kernel; ld: Undefined

    INFODOC Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:       
    11841     4.x     What performance tools are available for DBE
    11917     4.x     Can non DBMS processes open >256 file descriptors.
 
Category: drivers
    SRDB Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:         
     3053    4.1.1    Does the SCSI support group 1 commands?
     3557    ???      iobus level 9 interrupt not serviced
     3561    4.1.1    esp host adapter causes panic during error recovery
     3563    4.1      output to serial port hangs, alm2, zs ports.
     4623    4.1      metainit  a fails with /dev/rmdd device not found
     4827    4.1.1    Using tape drive causes system panic with a "Bus error" (2/96)
     4962    4.1.1    I/O caching is inconsistent in SunOS 4.1 betw
     4963    1.x      Why does the sun4c modload  conf not accept some options
     5466    5.0      Writing device driver and debugging SS1 with
     5583    2.3      WARNING: processor level 4 interrupt not serviced
     5653    4.1.2    Cannot modload more than three loadable drive
     6290    2.2      st driver will report ; log sense page does
     6447    2.x      access driver module symbols, functions, vari
    10178    2.x      Debugging the autoconfiguration phase of a de
    11793    2.3/2.4  ODS on SSA needs drivers forceloaded
    12190    2.x      How to map device memory onto kernel memory
    13359    2.x      Getting Errors "Unable to install.attach driv
    13426    2.x      System panics with "kmem_free impossible" due
    13855    2.4      Where is patch Patch ID# 102020 to fix RDBMS
    13929    2.x      Solaris 2.5.1 /kernel/drv/st.conf (tape confi
    15626    2.x      General information on /etc/path_to_inst
    15880    1.x      Installing SunOS 4.x drivers
    16114    4.1.3_U1 MAKEDEV tcx fails
    16438    2.x      mt status of EXB 8900 shows as EXB 8500
    17433    2.x      GLD configuration utility not available in DD
    18033    2.6      Subtle problems in 3rd party file systems if
    18513    any      Boot up is slow. How to debug with moddebug.
    19231    Sol 7    MTIOCGET does not return write protect status
    19785    Sol 7    add_drv fails on 64 bit Solaris 7 driver buil
    20427    2.6      Preventing a terminal server reboot from halt
    21030    7        What is "class_prop" in the Solaris7 /kernel/
    
    INFODOC Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:         
     2181    4.x      Introducing SunOS drivers  (1/96)
     2218    2.2      integrating a streams module into Solaris
     7115    2.x      How to force load a loadable kernel module
     7196    all      define: instances, device numbers, minor node         
    11331    4.x      How to add more than 3 loadable modules in 4.1.X
    11825    2.x      Loading device drivers on 2.x systems
    12334    xx	      How do I load more than 4 device drivers under 4.1.X (1/96) INFO
    13445    2.x      How do I know what drivers are available in S
    13476    2.x      Disk driver subsystem overview
    13491    2.x      Device Drivers Transfer of Information
    15876    xx	      loading the misc/obpsym module (7/98) info
    22099             Resolving Layered driver symbol references to other drivers
 
Category: general
     SRDB Documents:
     Doc #    V.      Description:         
     4900    any      can event reports be requested          
     6288    4.x      How to tell what process has a device open      
                      (NOTE:  need to add 2.x info)
     6291    4.x      processes hang when using FIFOS heavily         
     6311    any      binding processes to processors on MP machine        
     6348    any      why can't I kill a defunct, or zombie, proce      
    14137    2.x      How much memory is my process taking?
    14145    any      What is a click memory size unit?
    14173    any      Determining which dynamic libraries are neede
    14174    any      How many symbolic links can appear in a pathn
    14175    any      What can cause repeated "proc table is full"
    14952    2.x      What is nmgetid(): could not establish a uniq
    15376    2.5      Need to install package SUNWtoo on Netra to u
    15601    2.x      uname  s returns something other than "SunOS"
    15618    2.x      ps command prints out multiple listings for s
    16374    2.x      PS command gives error, No controlling termin
    17434    2.x      Repeating numbers following "syncing file sys
    17548    2.x      System boots from CD ROM and panics if booted
    17761    2.x      What is the system clock tick rate in Solaris
    20205    2.x      hsfs: hsnode table full

    INFODOC Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:    
     2023    SVR4     hi res timer code changes  (2/96)
     2085    any       SunOS release history
    11444    any       how to find out the cpu clock frequency ?
    11548    any       IPC parameters, example init.ora file for lar
    11878    any       What is global register 0 ( g0 ) used for? (11/95)   
    11879    2.x       What is Copy On Write ?
    11894    any       What are the Interupt levels on Sun3 and Sun4 systems?
    11906    2.x       Sample script for searching for symbols in libraries
    12632    xx        NEXTSTEP on SPARC supportability   (2/96)
    12938    any       Utility for searching kernel source   grepos
    13417    2.x       SCSI Terms and Tuning Definitions
    14134    any       kernel tips: sparc system interrupt priority
    14136    2.x       kernel tips: Why does vmstat show so little f
    14141    any       kernel tips: Using truss for program and erro
    14269     xx       Kernel tips: FAQs of Frontline Kernel Technical Support Engineers
    15654    2.x       How to find the disk blocks used by a file
    15769    2.x       Minfree: Recommended value and performance ef
    16007    2.5.1     What is the purpose of fsflush?
    16412    xx	       Core File Analysis For Dummies
    16529    2.x       Maximum size of process address space
    16986    2.6       process address space & pmap
    17599    2.x       Vmstat shows my cpu as idle, mpstat doesn't
    17731    xx	       Running savecore from the command line    (3/98)
    17818    any       Is kaio supported for VxFS
    23269     	       Determining if tmpfs has consumed all of swap (formerly doc 18065)
    18831    2.x       How to find the user and kernel stacks of a p
    19895    2.x       What is the maximum number of directories on
    20870    2.x       Free sockets from a killed process are not av
    21259              man page for coreadm command is not included with Solaris 7.


Category: hang                                                                               
                                                                               
    SRDB Documents:
    Doc #     V.       Description:     
     3691    2.x       boot hangs after syslog services started mess
     6323    2.2       root's find in crontab hangs system overnight
     6341    4.1.3C    4.1.3C SBUS cards suffer system freeze
    17479    2.5.1     Resolving Hardhang problems on Ultra Servers
    17981    2.x       System will not boot after making changes to
    20768    Sol 7     Jumbo Kernel Patch 106541 ## gives utmp and u
    22219              How to break out of a Hard Hang

    INFODOC Documents: 
    Doc #     V.       Description:        
    11837    any       How to force a crash when my machine is hung
    13039    2.x       Troubleshooting System Hangs


Category: IPC

    SRDB Documents:
    Doc #     V.       Description:     
     5288    4.1       how to determine IPC parameter limits via adb
     5408    4.x       Informix install fails with fatal error in shared mem
     6280    2.x       How to find out the IPC usage for a machine
     6328    2.x       tuning Shared Memory Parameters   (7/98)
     6373    any       how to determine the IPC semaphore parameter        
                       (NOTE: needs to have sysdef  i and equiv 4.x info added)
     6552    2.x       variable not defined in the 'shmsys' module
     7087    2.x       how does user tune shminfo_shmmax in the kern
     7115    2.x       how to force load a loadable kernel module       
     7280    4.x       how to increase message queues in 4.1.x         
    11809    4.x       How to increase semaphore in 4.1.x
    12057    any       Cannot use ipcs as a regular user
    12174    2.x       How to check how much shared memory is used by system
    12824    2.x       sysdef  i does not report IPC parameters set in /etc/system
    13414    2.x       semop reports ENOSPC or "no space left on dev
    13415    2.x       Signal handler in SVR4 is not reliable
    14854    2.x       Using adb to verify shared memory and semapho
    16985    2.6       A process using shared memory has terminated,

    INFODOC Documents:
    Doc #     V.       Description:       
     2270    2.x       seminfo_ semaphore info
     2273    2.x       Understanding messages, msginfo_
     6329    2.x       tuning semaphore parameters in 2.x
     7239    any       how to determine the shared memory parameter        
                       (NOTE: needs to have sysdef  i and equiv 4.x info added)
     7240    any       how to determine the IPC semaphore parameter        
                       (NOTE:  needs to have sysdef  i and equiv 4.x info added)
     7241    any       determine the message queue parameters          
                       (NOTE: needs to have sysdef  i and equiv 4.x info added)
     7315    4.x       how to increase shared memory in 4.1.x 
    13416    2.x       Async Signal Safe Functions   POSIX 
    13421    2.x       Shared Memory Commands Explained 
    13480    2.x       How to use the UNDO feature in semaphore operations      
    13523    2.x       Semaphores Explained
    16970    2.5.1     Clearing Shared Memory


Category: NSE

    SRDB Documents:
    Doc #     V.       Description:
    -----         
     3490     any      error during kernel reconfigure   tfs_u_ref.o
     4270     any      kernel reconfiguration on a 4.1 problem
     5075     4.1.1    NSE1.2.1 kernel remake broke hsfs filesystem



Category: Other

    SRDB Documents:
    Doc #     V.       Description:
     3405     any      panic: kernel too large error msg booting ins
    14968     2.5.1    Ultra 2 Pulsar running 2.5.1 Panics with CPU1
    15703     2.5.1    orainst SegV's on Solaris 2.5.1 with patches
    17427     2.x      Don't use the ulimit command in csh
    17457     xx       /var/adm/messages: unix: "rmap overflow" kernel error , system slows down
    18300     an       Troubleshooting hung E10K domains
    18537     2.       Application fails to start with seminit faile

   INFODOC Documents:
   Doc #       V.      Description:
    6287      4.1      How to mount tmpfs file system programmatical
   18486      2.6      Memory ECC error reporting on Starfire still
   20548      2.x      Tracking kernel memory problems
   23270               Decyphering sys_tl1_panic entries in stack traces (formerly 18067)
 
Category: Patches                                                                               
                                                                                
   SRDB Documents:
   Doc #      V.       Description:

    5976      3.5      SunOS 3.5 TOD patch
   11063      2.3      Patch ?? about required 2.3 patches for dual process (10/95)

   INFODOC Documents:
   Doc #       V.      Description:
   11904      any      Where can I find older revisions of patches? (12/95)
   12825      any      pch   utility for getting patch information
   20987               After installing Solaris 7 kernel patch 10654

Category: Performance

    SRDB Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:
     4079    any      pmeg problem summary
     5229    4.1.1    4/490 virtual memory problems
     6117    4.x      Performance of swapping with mkfile
                      NOTE: needs to have 2.x info added (equiv for pstat  s)
     6312    4.1.3    LX with dbri, but no speakerbox, have perform
     6318    4.x      vmstat avm column always shows 0
     6553    2.x      ps hangs without output or header
    11277    2.x      How to monitor and control processes on multi cpu machines
    12048    xx       Why Cust. is getting: unix: pseudo device: vol0? (11/95)
    12191    2.4      sc1000 with 2.4 OS runs very slow
    13475    2.x      vmstat reports negative numbers
    13477    2.x      variable 'enable_sm_wa' is not defined
    14020    2.4      why is CPU showing 97% idle with so many jobs
    14211    any      What is mutex contention?
    15114    2.5      Need resource statistics relative to applicat
    15458    2.5.1    Customer not getting better performance than
    15644    2.5.1    Does turning off 64 bit DMA cause a performance hit
    16260    2.x      system performance with regards to sbus interupts & configurat

    INFODOC Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:
     2242    2.x      showstats a solaris 2.x info collecting script
     4990    4.1.1    Processes run out of memory when there is still swap left
     6334    4.1.x    How to monitor/retrieve hang data without crash dump
    11365    4.x      4.x Performance Information Collection (2/96)
    11902    2.x      What does the SZ column represent in ps  l command?
    11908    2.x      Script for adding columns on ps outputs
    11923    any      How much memory is being used by a process
    13422    2.x      SCSI drives vs IDE drives on Solaris X86
    13478    2.x      mpstat explained
    13482    2.x      How to use vmstat to determine performance pr
    14321    2.x      Performance monitor script
    16258    2.5      System monitoring in cron
    16359    2.5.1    How Do You Change I/O Size Per Request to Inc
    16563    2.6      "Virtual Adrian's" performance monitoring too
    16753    2.6      iotstat  E output
    16988    2.6      Excerpts from Sunworldonline "Shared memory u
    17946    xx	      New Kernel Tunables in 2.5.1+ for priority paging
    18201    2.6      iostat  E:  Explanation of error counters
    20823    2.6      Information about hangs on E10k systems due t
    21622    Sol 7    Performance and Tuning on Solaris 2.6 and 7


Category:  press release

    INFODOC Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:       
    10445    2.3      A+EDITION 1.0 FOR SOLARIS 2.3 ENTERPRISE SERVER
    10597    2.3      AMDAHL and Sun ENHANCEMENTS FOR SOLARIS
    10679    2.4      Solaris 2.4 release press release



Category: Prestoserve

    SRDB Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:
    11489    2.4      PrestoServe on Sun4d systems running Solaris 2.4
    12181    2.x      Accessing prestoserve NVSIMM directly
    12231    2.5      Does prestoserve run on 2.5 OS?
    13495    2.x      Installing prestoserve fails in drvconfig
    13497    2.5      Is Prestoserve Compatible Solaris 2.5
    13505    any      Which File Systems should I Presto ize and Ho
    13506    2.x      How do I disable prestoserve start up scripts
    13508    any      Prestoserve reports ERROR state

    INFODOC Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:
    11245    any      Prestoserve MFAQ
                      (NOTE: needs to be updated w/ 2.5, ODS 4.0 info)
    12061    2.5      Prestoserve 2.4.2 Solaris 2.5 /etc/system
    13492    2.x      Using Prestoserve with Volume Manager


Category: Streams

    SRDB Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:
    15323    2.x      Programs still don't work after adding more p
                                                                 
Category: System Calls

    SRDB Documents:
    Doc #     V.     Description:
     2228     4.x    how to use flock () function to gain mutually exclusive locks
     3176     any    How to do a stat on a symbolic link?
     3180     4.1    bug in exiting monitors in a non nested order
     3202     any    The following program shows how to use mmap(2)
     3428     any    What types of shared memory supported
     4821     any    msync(2) doesn't flush memory pages
     4103     4.x    csh limit command can't be used to set cputime   (10/95)
     5382     4.x    Spawning process to specific cpu
     6283     2.x    Example of using Internationalization text
    10992     2.3    cannot remove <defunct> processes
    11048     2.4    System C signal handler program loop dies on signal
    11128     2.3    problem with limit of async i/o channels
    11207     2.x    How to find the maximum number of available asynch I/O
    11379     xx     What is the equiv SunOS sigblock () call for Solaris? (5/96)
    11811     2.x    2.X signal handler for SIGCLD acts differently
    12042     any    Is alarm() supposed to alarm all the child processes (11/95)
    12187     2.x    Customer wants to hide the information provided by ps
    12188     2.x    Finding FIFOs
    13483     2.x    Getting SIGPIPE error
    15457     4.1.4  shmat() fails with invalid argument error
    15655     2.x    bogus "out of per user processes for uid xxx"

    INFODOC Documents:
    Doc #     V.      Description:
     2243     4.1.3   First write on the client socket does not recieve SIGPIPE
     3155     4.x     How to check for foreground vs. background exec
                      (NOTE: need to check if works for 2.x, if not add 2.x info
     4820     any     Understanding the differences between fork and vfork
                      (NOTE: should be updated to include COW capabilities   now 
                      fork not inefficient)
     7242     any     how to increase number of open files using se      
    10818     2.x     sigwait() does not handle SIGHUP properly
        	      (NOTE:  article needs to be verified)
    11853     2.x     How to spawn a process to a new psuedo device
       		      (NOTE:  article needs comments to explain what was done and why
    11876     2.x     What is the difference between signal and sigset?  (11/95)
    11880     any     Which signals can not be caught or ignored?
    11886     2.x     How to mount a pcfs diskette in C program needs to initialize argss value
    11891     2.x     How to use sigprocmask in place of sigblock
                      NOTE: article needs a lot more verbiage
    11893     2.x     Sample C code for using /proc
    11897     4.x     does sleep() affect the itmerval structure
    11899     2.x     What is the max size of a named pipe?
    11924     2.4     List of errno's explained
    18455     2.x     How to increase the number of open files with

                           
Phase I Cleanup   NO hits 8+ months AND 4 digit / Moved to Pending deletion
Archived:
 5302    4.x    in GENERIC kernel configuration file, is "leb
 3175    4.x    Can SunDBE be run on a diskless client
 6330    4.1.2  SunDBE, 4.1.2 100614 03, Sun4m     
 4378    xx	Way in SUNOS to tell an open file by another process?
 6446    xx	incorrect entry in STREAMS driver dev_ops structure
 6289    all    Ejecting floppy causes "panic: pc_getcluster"
 5087    any    vmunix: ie0: panic: bus error hardware failur
 6445    xx	can't find sample STREAMS driver header file
 4938    4.1    latency on the Sparcstation 2
 3107    xx	Install trouble on 4.1, can't make kernel
 3318	 xx	VideoPix requires kernel with loadable module support
 3378	 xx	etherfind,traffic,and rarpd needs special kernel support
 5090    xx	kernel panic : mcpi_start with xmit sequence error"
 5185	 xx	diskless client panics on bootup: no kernel process
 5459	 xx	installation of SNA3270 fails with a sun4m kernel
 5684    xx	add_client installs kernel   without installed patches
 5793    xx	kernel install fails using sunlink IR 6.0 on sun4m
13066    any    Will Solaris run properly after 2000?

 

      

Submitter Diane Fallier
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