On 9/10/07, Kate Riggsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been told that the load-balancer polls are an xchange of > Hello/Server Hello packets on port 443 (not a full-blown SSL handshake) > every 2 seconds.
Although you say there's enough real memory, it may be the system is not configure correctly and still pages the Linux guests. Your performance monitor should be able to provide more data than what you mention in your post. You'd need to see whether it's indeed these two Linux servers that consume the extra cycles, and if so, see which processes are doing that in Linux. I would not expect that opening a connecting on port 443 and ending it would cause a lot of CPU activity (unless it triggers firewalls in Linux). I think I read from your post that there's one IFL on the z800. That means that you probably don't make things go faster by spreading the load over multiple virtual machines (actually, you will make it slower). The folks who came up with the model of probing port 443 may have had a different failure model than what's applicable to running two Linux virtual machines on the same z/VM (but I also know that such sometimes is a nasty fight). Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
