That makes sense ... if it doesn't just seem longer (remember, pacing takes time, too - it is just spent waiting idly instead of waiting for the work to be done) and paging during SHUTDOWN is something you really have to worry about.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:21 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Clean Linux Guest Shutdown > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Schuh, Richard > <rsc...@visa.com> wrote: > > > Why not CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN ALL instead of the table. > > From the peanut - uh performance gallery... If you have a > lot of Linux servers, the orderly shutdown may actually take > quite some paging resources to complete. When the shutdown is > making them all do this at once, it may take much longer than > when you pace it a bit. > Seen with those who set LDUBUFF wrong. > > Rob > -- > Rob van der Heij > Velocity Software > http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ >
