Yes.. thanks everyone. I didn't know I had an issue with this until I went and looked !!!
Mike Riggs Manager, Systems & Database Administration Office of the Executive Secretary Supreme Court of Virginia -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Victor Echavarry Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 8:58 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: BESCLIENT Thanks everyone for your help. Regards, Victor Echavarry System Programmer Operating Systems -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 2:33 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: BESCLIENT Thank you kevan for the info! So might I suggest a post rpm script in the s390x rpm that says warns the customer that default settings should be examined for a z/VM environment. If we had that info as we piloted the rpm install on the few "lab" servers we have, we might have been able to stop some pain which included backouts and dragging in IBM VM high level peoples :) (thanks again Romney for ferreting out the solution) and weeks of delay in deployment. In large shops, something like BigFix gets deployed by a team, usually distributed oriented that has to support both Windows and *ix and they pass off the "install" test to the various platform people to ensure the install works. Those teams say "yea, it installed" and really are not expecting to be looking for things like excessive CPU use in aggregate. And it then gets pushed to tens of thousands of devices... If the rpm had said something, we, being my team as platform signoffers, would have asked that they investigate further. Obviously we aren't the only ones to feel the pain as I think 6 or 7 others have chimed in here and on the previous thread from last year, so if you need a formal requirement, I'll bet happy to submit one. I think there's several here that will vote on it. Marcy -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of kevan rees Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 12:43 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] BESCLIENT We had the documentation updated to take into account highly virtualised environments: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS6MER_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.doc/Platform/Config/c_virtual_machines.html You can also set time periods where the agent doesn't run at all, e.g. prime shift. If you are only running it to satisfy the sub-capacity software licencing requirement this may be an option. - Kevan On 27 February 2018 at 13:46, Victor Echavarry < victor.echava...@evertecinc.com> wrote: > A couple of days ago our VM's begin a sustained increase in CPU usage. > We began an investigation checking recently changes on the LPAR's and > the guests. The only thing we found is that inside all the guests the > BESCLIENT was installed. Although it the process doesn't show high CPU > utilization, we turn it off and the VM's stabilized. Do anyone has > similar issue with this product? > > Regards, > > Victor Echavarry > > System Programmer > > Operating Systems > > EVERTEC, LLC > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
