mserver5 doesn't detect memory on Solaris/Sparc

[monetdb-team]

Date: 2011-12-06 08:50:08 +0100
From: @grobian
To: MonetDB5 devs <>
Version: 11.5.9 (Aug2011-SP3) [obsolete]
CC: @yzchang

Last updated: 2012-11-27 14:27:41 +0100

Comment 16583

Date: 2011-12-06 08:50:08 +0100
From: @grobian

Aparently, vuurbal has 0.0GiB of memory. In reality, it has 16GiB.

Comment 16600

Date: 2011-12-06 14:16:46 +0100
From: @grobian

The Solaris manpage reportes under the NOTES section:

    Multiplying  sysconf(_SC_PHYS_PAGES)  or  sysconf(_SC_AVPHYS_PAGES)  by
    sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)  to  determine  memory amount in bytes can exceed
    the maximum values representable in a 32-bit signed or unsigned  inte‐
    ger.

Aparently this has changed between the Solaris version on the T1000, since there it reported nicely 4.0GiB available memory. (Out of the 8 it had.)

Comment 16601

Date: 2011-12-06 17:25:55 +0100
From: @grobian

Changeset 312c7c400304 made by Fabian Groffen fabian@cwi.nl in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=312c7c400304

Changeset description:

MT_init: avoid overflow for memory on Solaris 32-bits

Fix for bug #2935.  Cap the memorysize to something which can be
addressed in 32-bits, when it happens to be larger than that.  Fixes
memory detection on 32-bits targets for Solaris systems that have lots
of memory installed.

Comment 16823

Date: 2012-01-26 15:32:01 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

The Dec2011 version has been release, so declaring this bug as FIXED.

Comment 18081

Date: 2012-11-27 14:27:41 +0100
From: @yzchang

Not possible to add test for this bug, unless someone else knows how...