I have also written a shutdown exec to cleanly shutdown all of my
z/Linux guests and log them off once they are logged off a send a
message to the console stating this. This works well and I have not had
any problems.

The one thing I would mention is that we have some large Oracle guests
with large (5TB) data bases. To ensure that the Oracle shutdown script
has time to complete cleanly I make sure that my time out value is very
large at least 30 minutes. Now it normally does not take nearly that
long but if you add in the possibility of paging as Rob mentioned you
could be pushing the envelope and if the Oracle shutdown scripts do not
complete cleanly you run the very real risk of corrupting ASM and
believe me that is no fun. I have been there!  


So if you are running these types of workloads make sure you give the
shutdown process plenty of time to complete cleanly.


Thank You,
 
Terry Martin
Lockheed Martin - Information Technology
z/OS & z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning
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-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On
Behalf Of Schuh, Richard
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 5:54 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Clean Linux Guest Shutdown

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/
> 

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