Ok thanks, I am actually running 5.3 Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin - Information Technology z/OS & z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 786-0386 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Nielsen Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:01 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: CURRENT ISSUE Be careful doing that. On z/VM 5.2 I got a CP Abend after doing that. My post from Aug 2007 in subject "Re: SET SHARE RELATIVE:: >I got bit by a CP abend STL023 under VM 5.2 when I used LIMITHARD on one >of my Linux guests using QDIO OSA. You should review VM63715. The fix >is included in VM 5.3. Brian Nielsen On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:52:33 -0400, Marty Zimelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Look at > > SET SHARE guest ABSOLUTE nn LIMITHARD nn > >where <nn> is some value less than 100 that gives you enough "breathing >room" for other guests to get a shot at the processors. In the longer term, >it sounds like you've defined this guest with 5 (or more) virtual CPUs. You >might want to give it fewer (assuming it doesn't need more than four ful l >processors all the time) so it can't do this to you again. > > Marty >____________________ >Martin Zimelis >Principal >maz/Consultancy > > > _____ > >From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) >Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 5:45 PM >To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU >Subject: CURRENT ISSUE > > > >Hi > > > >Currently I have a z/Linux guest that is using all 5 IFLs (That is what we >have) it is almost like it is in a loop. You cannot log into the guest. My >question, is there a way to slow down this quest to allow other processe s to >get some CPU? I think ultimately the application folks will need to stop the >application but I thought I would take this opportunity to see if there were >any control like I have on z/OS with workload manager to reduce the amou nt >of CPU resources this guest is using. Any suggestions are appreciated. > > > >Thank You, > > > >Terry Martin > >Lockheed Martin - Information Technology > >z/OS & z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning > >Cell - 443 632-4191 > >Work - 410 786-0386 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
