[Orca-users] Orca dying on the vine?

[Hudes, Dana]

I have run orca server on sun4v (T5240) and sun4u (v490, v490). Since the orca server is single-threaded and spawns many bunzip2 children which are i/o bound the coolthreads many cpus doesn't help. A single Ultra IV+ chip suffices @ 1.8GHz (and if could get 2GHz I would)
The T2 is 1.4GHz. 

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From: orca-users-bounces+hudesd=hra.nyc.gov at orcaware.com 
To: orca-users at orcaware.com 
Sent: Sun Aug 30 17:55:09 2009
Subject: Re: [Orca-users] Orca dying on the vine? 


Hey Blair, I'm glad to see your response.

Being a sysadmin type myself, I agree totally with what you are saying on the targeting side.  Unfortunately, that also means that I'm not able to contribute much on the writing code side of things.  

However, I can provide some solaris hosts for a few people, both x86 (virtual) and sun4u.  I can do testing also on sun4v.  At some point, I'm thinking of getting a IBM workstation and when I do, then AIX becomes a possibility also.

I would like to figure out some better packaging for Orca and the dependent packages, and I'm willing to contribute any packages I create.

I've used git, mercurial and svn, and I have no issues either way, whatever works best for the developer types.  ;-p

Regards,

-A


On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 00:33, Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:



	On Aug 8, 2009, at 1:56 AM, Allen Eastwood wrote:
	
	

		So, with the rather low level of activity both on the mailing lists and development for Orca and SE, have we gotten to the point where Orca/SE are pretty much dead?  They've been great tools over the years, and I haven't seen anything that gives the same level of insight.
		


	I've always felt that Orca targets sysadmin people more than developers so doesn't see as many contributions as compared to an open-source package that targets developers.
	
	Orca is GPL and I do take patches for it.  So there's nothing stopping people from contributing.
	
	It could be a good idea to move it to github so that people can make use of github's forking model that makes it easier for people to work on their copy of the code and I can pull those changes into my version of Orca for official releases.
	
	I'm always looking for people who want to get involved and contribute code.  I've given commit access to a few people to make it better.  So the more the merrier.
	
	Regards,
	Blair
	
	


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