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,

Re: Testing Linux Z/vm

2009-06-26 Thread August Carideo
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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 august.cari...@avon.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:54 AM Subject: Re: Testing Linux Z/vm yes we are ficon, also

Re: Testing Linux Z/vm

2009-06-25 Thread Mike At HammockTree
: August Carideo august.cari...@avon.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 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

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 single

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

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

Re: Testing Linux Z/vm

2009-06-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
[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 devices are less than 5% busy. CPU is never more