[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

[Alex Lam S.L.]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:53 PM,  <sysop at lavabit.com> wrote:
>> Tested:
>>
>> OI-151 live CD
>> http://dlc-int.openindiana.org/151/oi-dev-151-x86-20110608-1.iso
>>
>>
>> System:
>>
>> Intel Core i3-2100
>> ASUS P8H61 PLUS
>> 8GB DDR3
>> Nvidia G210
>> 3x 2TB + 1x 2TB spare
>>
>>
>> The aim is to replace the existing office network equipments which
>> consists of 3 boxes of dust, running Linux and OpenBSD. (Disclaimer: I
>> have very little knowledge of Linux let alone OpenBSD or Solaris. I am
>> a physicist by training, and for the most part a comfortable end-user
>> of Windows.)
>>
>>
>> I have to say, whatever you guys have done, it is amazing. Within a
>> single day, I managed to install the OS, set up 3-way ZFS mirror, CIFS
>> shares, DNS, DHCP and SVN services.
>>
>> The only quirks I've read into so far is the device driver for Intel
>> AMT (which I don't use anyway), and the occasion freeze of the Gnome
>> desktop. As for the latter - how should I recover from it? My gut
>> feeling is that it is triggered by graphic updates on the desktop, and
>> Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't seem to help other than making the whole screen go
>> blank. The rest of the system (e.g. DNS server) is still functional,
>> though.
>>
>>
>> All in all - thank you very much!
>>
>>
>> Alex.
>>
> I installed the same version to another desktop yesterday and had quite a
> few lock ups through the afternoon/evening, however today I've not had a
> single lock up, no changes in workload etc.
> One system change I made was to set speedstep to use poll-mode
>
> /etc/power.conf
> cpupm enable poll-mode
>
> Can you ssh in when the desktop/application freezes?
>

Yes - everything else seems to work (DNS, SVN etc.)

I've figured out how to do VNC (Desktop Sharing...) today, and was
curious how it would fare when the lock-up happens. Unfortunately,
just like you, I can't get it to lock up at all today.

Let's see if I get better (or not!) luck tomorrow...


Alex.


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