Installation guide
The following error message is displayed:
With 15625 sectors per cylinder, minimum cylinders
per group is 16. This requires the fragment size to be
changed from 1024 to 4096.
Please re-run mkfs with corrected parameters.
Workaround: Use the newfs command instead. Or, assign a larger fragment size, such as 4096,
when you use the mkfs command.
System Crash Dump Fails on Devices Greater Than 1
TByte (6214480)
The system cannot generate a dump on a partition that is equal to or greater than 1 Tbyte in
size. If such a device is on a system, the following might occur after the system boots subsequent
to a system panic:
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The system does not save the dump.
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The following message is displayed:
0% done: 0 pages dumped, compression ratio 0.00, dump failed: error 6
Workaround: Congure the size of your system's dump device to less than 1 Tbyte.
Hardware–Related Issues and Bugs
The following hardware–related issue and bugs apply to the Solaris 10 release.
Reduced ixgbe Driver Performance in Solaris 10 10/09
(6885903)
The ixgbe driver has 8 RX queues by default. The multiple RX queues result in reduced driver
performance in the promiscuous mode when compared to a single RX queue in the Solaris 10
10/08 and Solaris 10 5/09 releases. Multiple RX queues create kernel contentions. These kernel
contentions might contribute to poor ixgbe performance in the Solaris 10 10/09 release.
Workaround: Set the ixgbe RX and TX queue values to 1. Perform the following steps:
1. Edit the /kernel/drv/ixgbe.conf conguration le.
rx_queue_number = 1;
tx_queue_number = 1;
Hardware–Related Issues and Bugs
Solaris 10 10/09 Release Notes • October 200964