Also add in a "cp q time" so you know what time it happened.
Or do the PIPE like Frank suggested.

BTW, so a "cp spool console start" first to capture the listing.

And then there is also:
term more 0 0
term hold off
set run on
anything else?

Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting

>>> Karl Kingston <karlkings...@ongov.net> 5/6/2011 10:58 AM >>>
Put the "IND QUEUES" in a loop with a "CP SLEEP 10 MIN" and just let'er 
run.




From:   "Bhemidhi, Ashwin" <ashw...@ti.com>
To:     IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 
Date:   05/06/2011 11:04 AM
Subject:        Re: Problem with z/Linux guest Ethernet frames (buffering 
?)
Sent by:        The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU>



I will build a rexx exec that will run the IND QUEUES Command. What 
command/facility do I use to schedule the exec to run every 10 secs, is 
there something in z/VM that is similar to SCHEDULE/CRON. 

I updated SRM buffer setting to allow for storage over commit. Since this 
is a production LPAR I am not comfortable changing SRM setting(to 
defaults) with out being absolutely sure of what it might affect. The 
guest ran well for more than 3 months with the current SRM setting before 
we started seeing the network issue. 

It appears that we are running pretty tight. This z/VM LPAR is pretty 
small has 768 MB central and 256 Xstor , 2 X 3390-3 PAGE DASD. It runs 9 
Linux guest ( 8 Prod, 1 standby) of 80MB memory, 16 MB, 48 MB VDISKs and 
128 MB DASD SWAP disks . The guest are paging a little bit. Our 
application is 99.9% network IO(protocol convertor). We will be adding 
some memory to this LPAR during our maintenance this month to ease up on 
resources. VM CPU utilization seems to be a MAX 4% of 2 ILFs.

When the problem occurs, it only happens on one of 8 machines machine, 
even though all the machines are polled similarly. The machine that has 
problem keeps changing and it appears to be paused for around 25+ seconds 
as we do not drop any frames just that they are delayed. 


Thank you,
Ashwin 




-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On 
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 5:07 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 
Subject: Re: Problem with z/Linux guest Ethernet frames (buffering ?)

On Thursday, 05/05/2011 at 03:22 EDT, "Bhemidhi, Ashwin" <ashw...@ti.com> 
wrote:
> Right now there is the eligible list is 0. I could not check the queues 
at the 
> time of event, the 3 times it occurred was either during after business 
hours 
> or over the weekends. By the time I was able to logon the eligible list 
was 0.

You can write an exec that issues IND QUEUES every, say, 10 seconds.  If 
the result shows no-zero eligible lists, record the results (with the 
time) in a file or on the (spooled) console.  Start it when you leave for 
the day.

> I did change the SRM storbuff setting from the default to 300%, 300%, 
200%.

Why?  If you put it back to the defaults, does the problem go away?

Alan Altmark

z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant
IBM System Lab Services and Training 
ibm.com/systems/services/labservices 
office: 607.429.3323
mobile; 607.321.7556
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