CP VMDUMP 0-END TO OPERATNS That was it.
_______________________________________ James Vincent Systems Engineering Consultant Nationwide Services Co., Technology Solutions Mainframe, z/VM and z/Linux Support One Nationwide Plaza 3-20-13 Columbus OH 43215-2220 U.S.A Voice: (614) 249-5547 Fax: (614) 677-7681 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> wrote on 02/27/2007 02:19:28 PM: > IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > > Jim, > > When you issued the VMDUMP command did you just enter #CP VMDUMP or #CP > VMDUMP 0-END FORMAT vmtype DSS TO dump_id ? > > If the second, what did you put in for "vmtype"? > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jim Vincent > Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:58 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: CP VMDUMP for a mega server > > > We are doing a VMDUMP for a 2G linux server and it is taking FOREVER. > If this was a production server we would be picking daggers out of > places I can't mention here. > > Paging is not too bad on the system (300/sec) and we set the share and > reserved for the guest up to maybe help, but nothing seems to get it > moving any. It is doing about 1000 spool records every 15-20 seconds > and we guestimated it would be about 524288 records; after about an hour > it is less than half done!! > > Is this to be expected? Are we to expect VMDUMP to take that long for > these larger guests or do we have a situation we need to dig into? > > _______________________________________ > James Vincent > Systems Engineering Consultant > Nationwide Services Co., Technology Solutions > Mainframe, z/VM and z/Linux Support > One Nationwide Plaza 3-20-13 > Columbus OH 43215-2220 U.S.A > Voice: (614) 249-5547 Fax: (614) 677-7681 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------- > > If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify > the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, > copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional > terms relating to this e-mail. http://www.ml.com/email_terms/ > --------------------------------------------------------
