Hi, all. I have a peculiar problem and I need some guidance to submit a proper bug report. I work for Sun,in the Database Group, as MySQL Community team lead. I was testing a sandbox application (https://launchpad.net/mysql-sandbox) under OpenSolaris. and I noticed that a test that a Linux box with 512 MB passes without trouble, puts Opensolaris on its knees, even after increasing the memory to 1 GB.
Description: This test is a Perl application that launches 22 concurrent instances of the MySQL database server, and then brings them down, reporting on the number of pass vs fail. I ran this test on OpenSolaris (VMWare virtual machine) with 512 MB of RAM. It crashed with a message saying "fork: not enough space", and then the whole box became unresponsive, even from root access. I increased the memory to 1 GB, and again the operating system refused to launch more instances after 18 instances, signaling that fork was out of space. The trouble comes when comparing the above behavior with a Linux Ubuntu virtual machine, with 512 MB of RAM. It passes the test, with all 22 instances, without errors. I wanted do report the bug, but being quite inexperienced with OpenSolaris, I am stuck at the long list of category/subcategory found at http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa. Can anyone help to categorize this report? Thanks Giuseppe
