[daip] install.pl - more reliable memory detection for solaris
Vincent.McIntyre at csiro.au
Vincent.McIntyre at csiro.au
Tue May 2 19:53:01 EDT 2006
> Thanks. There are not so many solaris machines so things do not get
> tested well anymore. The actual memory in the machine is only one
> clue to the desired AP size. Big ones like 80 Mbyte cost a lot in
> loading and swapping out and do not provide a big benefit for most
> applications.
oops, there was a problem with my call to grep. I should have quoted the
regex & egrepped, ie "/usr/bin/egrep -e '^Mem'" instead of "grep ^Mem".
However it's not actually needed so I dropped it.
Revised patch and sample prtdiag output attached.
This version actually works!
Kind regards
Vince
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--- install.pl 2006-05-02 11:55:14.000000000 +1000
+++ 31DEC05/SYSTEM/UNIX/PERL/install.pl 2006-05-03 08:58:33.000000000 +1000
@@ -1891,10 +1891,10 @@
}
if (!$mem) {
# Solaris
- open(FOO, "dmesg 2>/dev/null | grep ^mem|");
+ open(FOO, "/usr/sbin/prtdiag 2>/dev/null |");
while (<FOO>) {
- if (/mem = ([0-9]+)K/) {
- $mem = $1;
+ if (/memory size: *([0-9]+) *megabytes/i) {
+ $mem = $1 * 1024;
last;
}
}
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System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Ultra 1 SBus (UltraSPARC 143MHz)
System clock frequency: 71 MHz
Memory size: 128 Megabytes
========================= CPUs =========================
Run Ecache CPU CPU
Brd CPU Module MHz MB Impl. Mask
--- --- ------- ----- ------ ------ ----
0 0 0 143 0.5 US-I 2.2
========================= IO Cards =========================
Bus Freq
Brd Type MHz Slot Name Model
--- ---- ---- ---------- ---------------------------- --------------------
0 SBus 25 2 cgsix SUNW,501-2325
0 SBus 25 14 espdma/esp (scsi)
0 SBus 25 14 ledma/le (network)
0 SBus 25 14 SUNW,bpp
ERROR: Cannot determine PCI device type.
No failures found in System
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