Re: Testing Linux Z/vm

2009-06-26 Thread Mike At HammockTree
It would also be interesting to know the response from a: CP Q SRM STORBUF Mike Hammock - Original Message - From: "August Carideo" To: Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:54 AM Subject: Re: Testing Linux Z/vm yes we are ficon, also using VDISk for swap, and we have c

Re: Testing Linux Z/vm

2009-06-26 Thread August Carideo
Re: Testing Linux Z/vm 06/26/2009 11:35

Re: Testing Linux Z/vm

2009-06-26 Thread Tom Duerbusch
With Oracle, someone is listing to the PC side of the house. That is, inexpensive MIPS, inexpensive memory, expensive I/O. Hence you want SGA to be as big as possible. On the IFL side, MIPS are still relatively expensive, memory is still relatively expensive, and assuming you are on FICON, I/O

Re: Testing Linux Z/vm

2009-06-25 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Marcy > Your guest is bigger than your real storage.   If you need to do that > overcommitting (and you may not - see Rich's question about SGA sizes), Overcommitting resources is good, because it is the only way to enforce sharing resources. But defining a singl

Re: Testing Linux Z/vm

2009-06-25 Thread Mike At HammockTree
ck - Original Message - From: "August Carideo" To: Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:02 PM Subject: Testing Linux Z/vm We are preparing for a test and loading the database is taking forever. Paging is high. I/O devices are less than 5% busy. CPU is never more than 20%. An Oracle file

Re: Testing Linux Z/vm

2009-06-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of August Carideo Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:03 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] Testing Linux Z/vm We are preparing for a test and loading the database is taking forever. Paging is high. I/O dev

Testing Linux Z/vm

2009-06-24 Thread August Carideo
We are preparing for a test and loading the database is taking forever. Paging is high. I/O devices are less than 5% busy. CPU is never more than 20%. An Oracle file import is taking over 14 hours. Any Idea's with this little bit of info to go on Also is there a reason for the TCPIP machine to be

Re: Testing Linux Z/vm

2009-06-24 Thread David Boyes
> We are preparing for a test and loading the database is taking forever. > Paging is high. I/O devices are less than 5% busy. CPU is never more > than > 20%. An Oracle file import is taking over 14 hours. Any Idea's with > this > little bit of info to go on If you can give the LPAR a little bit o

Re: Testing Linux Z/vm

2009-06-24 Thread Rich Smrcina
August Carideo wrote: We are preparing for a test and loading the database is taking forever. Paging is high. I/O devices are less than 5% busy. CPU is never more than 20%. An Oracle file import is taking over 14 hours. Any Idea's with this little bit of info to go on Also is there a reason for