On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 04:24:23PM -0600, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > KDE? > > Yep, you can run it, but everytime I bring up KDE, it takes about 40% > of our 60 MIP processor. There is very little that you ever need a > desktop manager for that can't be done via command line. But it is > really nice to have as a fall back to install some product. > > But after the product is installed, then bring down KDE! > > I think a year or so ago, DB2/UDB required a gui screen for the install > (just to ask one question). > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/16/04 03:14PM >>> > On Nov 16, 2004, at 2:58 PM, John Kaba wrote: > > > We have just recently installed SuSE SLES8 under our VM3.1.0 system, > > and > > are experiencing some performance issues. Our Realtime monitor > reveals > > that Linux is utilizing approx 65% of our CPU cycles, but we really > > have > > nothing running. I was told by our Linux guy to give it lots of > > memory, so > > I defined it with 1G. I'm wondering if this is my problem, or if I > > might > > have something else set up wrong. We have Tivoli Directory Server > 5.2 > > fixpack1, DB2 ver 8.2, and websphere express 5.1, but it is not > > configured > > yet. We have just installed these products, and they are not being > > used at > > all, still we are seeing results like this: > > > You Linux image is way too big and you're probably seeing VM getting > tired paging it in and out. Try reducing it to 384MB. You will also > want to turn off timer ticks. I don't remember exactly what it is you > need to echo to where in /proc, but I'm sure someone else does.
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hz_timer should do it. > > The other thing that's hurting you is KDE. Why are you running a > desktop manager on your 390? Turn *off* X entirely--you don't have a > local display there anyway. Again, I don't remember what runlevel > "services, no X" (I think it's "2", but I won't swear to that) is in > SuSE, but I'm sure someone does. Have a look at /etc/inittab. There is a short doku. What you want to have is level 3 (Full multiuser with network). To change this permanently change the number in the line "id:5:initdefault:" to the runlevel you like. You can also use the yast2 runlevel-editor. To turm off the local X-Server go into /usr/X11/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers and comment out the line ":0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07" Ihno -- Best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ihno Krumreich "Never trust a computer you can lift." -- Ihno Krumreich [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Projectmanager S390 & zSeries Maxfeldstr. 5 +49-911-74053-439 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
