2004-09-14 Recommended Linux for zSeries code drop to developerWorks

2004-09-14 Thread Gerhard Hiller
Please see the What's New page at: http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/whatsnew.shtml for a change summary of the 2004-09-14 additions and changes to the Linux for zSeries and S/390 developerWorks Web pages. June 2003 stream: - kernel 2.4.21: Kernel patch with

Guest freeze

2004-09-14 Thread Troyski
Hi all, Anybody seen the following conditions :- o VM linux guest hangs. No response to ssh or at 3270 console. Pings from other servers (external and internal) ok though (?) o VM CPU @ 100%. o No VM paging. o VM guys say linux is looping. zSeries 800/SLES8 SP2 Would a linux guest memory issue

FW: Guest freeze

2004-09-14 Thread Seader, Cameron
-Original Message- From: Seader, Cameron Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 07:27 To: 'Troyski' Subject: RE: Guest freeze no, I had something happen to me some time ago and novell/suse checked with IBM and they had no current solution for the problem, They stated that IBM was working on

Re: Guest freeze

2004-09-14 Thread Seader, Cameron
Here is some more information about what we had discovered after talking with SuSE. This problem was never resolved. Just an update on the bug found yesterday. I just got off the phone talking with Novell's SUSE support department and we were able to narrow down which package was causeing the

Tomcat catalina.out

2004-09-14 Thread Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
Does anyone know a good way to archive catalina.out on a regular basis? Any way to do it while Tomcat is up? This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended

VMRMSVM Z/VM 1.4

2004-09-14 Thread Monteleone
Hello, Has somebody already get success with VMRMSVM ? I'm not able to obtain the performance goals I defined. Is there another way to dynamically adjust CPU share and I.O ? TIA for your responses. Bests Regards, Gerard MONTELEONE Ingenieur Systeme Reseau SI.TE.C Z.I du vazzio 20090

Re: Tomcat catalina.out

2004-09-14 Thread Post, Mark K
I can't answer the second part, but logrotate would probably be the preferred method. Look at /etc/logrotate.conf. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Tomcat catalina.out

2004-09-14 Thread Tom Anderson
-Original Message- From: Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 03:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tomcat catalina.out Does anyone know a good way to archive catalina.out on a regular basis? Any way to do it while Tomcat is up? Check

Slack390 and gdm/xdm

2004-09-14 Thread Richard Pinion
I installed Slack390 10.0 a couple of weeks ago but was never able to establish a gdm or xdm session. Mark Post gave me several suggestions which did get me past some problems but I was still unable to get a gdm or xdm session. So this week I downloaded and installed Slack390 9.1. I am able

Re: Slack390 and gdm/xdm

2004-09-14 Thread Post, Mark K
All, I tried to replicate Richard's problem by downloading XLitePro, but couldn't. The version I was able to get, XLitePro 1.3, worked with Slack/390 -current (10.0), which is why I recommended Richard try that. Unfortunately, he had already overwritten his 10.0 install with 9.1, so we don't

Re: Guest freeze

2004-09-14 Thread James Melin
Do you know what specifically triggers the problem? I was just asked if we could do samba. Seader, Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] er.comTo Sent by: Linux on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

TCP/IP response time

2004-09-14 Thread Biggs, Eric J [ITS]
We have a handful on Linux guests (20 or so) running in our z/VM 4.4 environment. Yesterday, for some strange reason, 4 of them started having terrible response times. Here are some of the ping times. These were issued from another guest. BAD one: PING pkdl0106.corp.sprint.com (10.185.26.16):

Re: TCP/IP response time

2004-09-14 Thread Ferguson, Neale
What does: #CP Q SRM report? How big are the Linux guests? -Original Message- We have a handful on Linux guests (20 or so) running in our z/VM 4.4 environment. Yesterday, for some strange reason, 4 of them started having terrible response times. Here are some of the ping times. These

New samba package fixes DoS vulnerability

2004-09-14 Thread Post, Mark K
A new samba package is available for Slack/390 -current. These fix two denial of service vulnerabilities reported by iDEFENSE. Slack/390 -current has been patched to fix these issues. Sites running Samba 3.x should upgrade to the new package. Versions of Samba before 3.0.x are not affected by

FW: Stateless Linux project

2004-09-14 Thread Post, Mark K
This was forwarded to me by a co-worker. I'm wondering (assuming it all works) what kind of applicability this might have for Linux on z/VM? Mark Post -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 5:44 AM Subject: Stateless Linux project An new approach for handling the

Re: VMRMSVM Z/VM 1.4

2004-09-14 Thread David Boyes
Has somebody already get success with VMRMSVM ? Seems to work OK for me. I'm not able to obtain the performance goals I defined. Could you describe the goals you're trying to meet -- that'd help a lot to help you get the right configuration.

Re: Primary router question

2004-09-14 Thread Mrohs, Ray
We found out that with SLES8 2.4.21, you need to put 'primary_router' before the portname in chandev.conf. Then reboot, since 'rcchandev reload' by itself doesn't do it. Ray Mrohs Energy Information Administration U.S. Department of Energy -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K

Re: TCP/IP response time

2004-09-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 14, 2004, at 12:32 PM, Biggs, Eric J [ITS] wrote: We have a handful on Linux guests (20 or so) running in our z/VM 4.4 environment. Yesterday, for some strange reason, 4 of them started having terrible response times. Here are some of the ping times. These were issued from another guest.

Re: TCP/IP response time

2004-09-14 Thread Biggs, Eric J [ITS]
CP Q SRM IABIAS : INTENSITY=90%; DURATION=2 LDUBUF : Q1=300% Q2=200% Q3=110% STORBUF: Q1=150% Q2=125% Q3=100% DSPBUF : Q1=32767 Q2=32767 Q3=32767 DISPATCHING MINOR TIMESLICE = 5 MS MAXWSS : LIMIT=% .. :

Re: TCP/IP response time

2004-09-14 Thread Reuscher, Robert A [ITS]
Also we do not see any one in the E-lists. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Biggs, Eric J [ITS] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TCP/IP response time CP Q

Re: Stateless Linux project

2004-09-14 Thread Jim Sibley
The procedure has the following statement: [StatelessLinux] name=Stateless Linux baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/dmalcolm/stateless Gripe: Why does RedHat insist that we connect to their sites to get updates (up2date) and do builds. I happen to have a number of systems that do NOT connect to

Re: TCP/IP response time

2004-09-14 Thread Derric Goodwin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/14/2004 12:47:57 PM The guests are all about 256MB. This is the classic nothing has changed story. None of us are aware of anything that has changed over the past few days. Previously, all the guests ran like champs. We did go ahead and reboot one of the troubled guests

Re: Primary router question

2004-09-14 Thread Post, Mark K
Now that's pretty weird. Glad you got it fixed, though. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mrohs, Ray Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Primary router question We found out that with

System V init-style startup management for z/VM and Linux Guests

2004-09-14 Thread Adam Thornton
SysVInit (which, if you didn't see the initial announcement, brings better-than-System-V-init-processing to VM/ESA and z/VM) has now been updated to version 0.3. Significant changes: no more SYSVINIT NAMES or MAINLOOP EXEC files, so configuration is somewhat simplified. SysVInit is now a lot

Re: Slack390 and gdm/xdm

2004-09-14 Thread Richard Pinion
I found a saved copy of my 10.0 Slack390. Booted it up and tryed to establish a gdm session using XLitePro 1.3 and the session failed. At least for me, it looks like 9.1 is the one to go with. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/14/04 12:39PM All, I tried to replicate Richard's problem by downloading

Re: TCP/IP response time

2004-09-14 Thread Ward, Garry
Isn't this usually indicative of the Linux guest being shoved way down in VM's dispatching mechanism? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derric Goodwin Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TCP/IP response

Re: Stateless Linux project

2004-09-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2004-09-14 at 19:02, Jim Sibley wrote: The procedure has the following statement: [StatelessLinux] name=Stateless Linux baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/dmalcolm/stateless I doubt dmalcolm reads this list so suggestions on statelsss Linux improvements are best sent to him really. All

Re: VMRMSVM Z/VM 1.4

2004-09-14 Thread David Boyes
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:36:38PM +0200, Monteleone wrote: Has somebody already get success with VMRMSVM ? I'm not able to obtain the performance goals I defined. Is there another way to dynamically adjust CPU share and I.O ? You could use the VM Perfkit and define thresholds for specific