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Relates to the SPARC architecture of CPUs, originally designed by Sun Microsystems and intended to run the Solaris operating system. Similar to the UltraSPARC CPU line, the terms "sparc" and "UltraSPARC" are frequently interchangeable.

The term "SPARC" (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) was coined for the RISC-based CPU introduced by Sun Microsystems in the late 1980s. Fabrication is currently done by Fujitsu, but the "OpenSPARC" project allows others to adopt the CPU design.

The initial layout took elements from the RISC I and RISC II CPUs and attempted to simplify the design to match the execution behavior of the MIPS processors, effectively "marrying" aspects of both architectures.

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Giving a new life to an old SPARC machine - boot and install related problems

My problem isn't one you encounter on a daily basis, yet I find interesting enough to share and ask for help. From the beginning: the academic scientific group I am a member of (we are focused on networking-related stuff) got today an ooold SPARC…
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Sun Solaris - Find out number of processors and cores

Our SPARC server is running Sun Solaris 10; I would like to find out the actual number of processors and the number of cores for each processor. The output of psrinfo and prtdiag is ambiguous: $psrinfo -v Status of virtual processor 0 as of:…
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Practical difference between SPARC vs x86

Recently I've been looking into some SPARC devices and their capabilities. But when I look for the differences between the two, I've seen a lot of people using the Ferrari vs bus metaphor If your goal is to get 2 people from point A to point B as…
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SunOS free command

I have SunOS 5.10 sparc server. I want to calculate system memory. I can easily find this in Linux using /usr/bin/free command. Can anyone please suggest me if there is any equivalent command in SunOS. It would be better if anyone can give me any…
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Crontab on Solaris 10

I was trying to execute the following: root@sol10 # /lib/svc/method/svc-cron root@sol10 # /usr/sbin/cron: GenMacKey: not found I would like to know how to generate GenMacKey. Better still my crontab -r is returning, root@sol10 # crontab -r cron may…
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Stability, x86 Vs Sparc

Our project are plan to migrate from Sparc to x86, and our HA requirement is 99.99%, previous on Sparc, we assume the hardware stability would like, hardware failure every 4 month or even one year, and also we have test data for our application,…
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Value of Itanium or Sparc over x86_64 for Oracle Deployment

We are looking at a new environment to run our Oracle Database running on SUSE (potentially migrating to RedHat). Our database is approximately 100GB and performs adequately on our current hardware (x86_64) with approximately 6GB of ram allocated to…
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Sun T5240 Server ILOM missing /SYS - can't get to boot OS

I've acquired a Sun T5240 that's supposed to be in good working order. I can't get the server to the point of booting/installing operating systems though. Logging into ILOM via serial (ser mgt port) and web (net mgt port) works (slowly), but there…
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Sparc 5440 hangs during boot from cdrom

We have a Sun Sparc 5440 server that originally had 64 GB of RAM that we were trying to upgrade to 128 GB. During the process, the SCSI root disk seems to have gotten corrupted, so we are trying to rebuild the system. We have a DVD of Solaris 10 (a…
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Memory problems with Tomcat on Solaris 10

I have a server running Solaris 10. It reports 70+ GiB free RAM. I am attempting to start Tomcat 7.0.68 using Java 1.7.0_80 in 64-bit mode. The server is claiming that it is not able to allocate 717 MiB of RAM. I get an hs_err_pidxxx.log file…
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SPARC T4, Solaris 11, no access to internet, how to install system headers (or a working compiler)

I need to compile a C program on SPARC T4-1 (Solaris 11) machine that has been deployed to customer network, and it no longer has access to the Internet. Originally during the setup, compilation tools, nor the system headers were installed, and now…
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Sparc v440 unable 2 boot after recommended patch install

After installing the October 2011 recommended patch bundle on a Solaris 10 the host fails to boot. The output is {0} ok boot SC Alert: Host System has Reset screen not found. keyboard not found. Keyboard not present. Using ttya for input and…
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In which solaris sparc package does crtbegin and crtend belongs to?

I need to add those two to my paths. Thus, my plan is to check first if they're already in my machine, and if they are, I'll add them to my path. Otherwise, I'll install them first then add them to my path. Thanks
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Solaris 10 stuck at boot

I have an old sparc T5220 server which had been running solaris 10 for sometime now. I ran some patches on the server and when i rebooted, it got stucked at SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_153153-04 64-bit Copyright (c) 1983, 2021, Oracle and/or…
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Why solaris doesn't see all the DIMMS installed?

This is a SPARC T4-2 Server. It has installed 128GB memory in 16 DIMMS 8GB each. The prtdiag -v output shows ======================= Physical Memory Configuration ======================== Segment…
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