CAVMEN Meeting on Thursday, October 21, 2004 - Handouts Available Online

2004-11-01 Thread Chicago Area VM (and Linux) Enthusiasts
The handouts from several of the sessions from our October 21st meeting are now available online at the CAVMEN web site: http://cavmen.home.comcast.net Follow the link for "Past Meetings" to the agenda for the October meeting and download the handouts from there. Additional information about the CA

Best Practices EVMS FCP Multipathing

2004-11-01 Thread Seader, Cameron
Greetings, Just a few Questions reguarding FCP Multipathing. I have installed multiple systems with a 5 GB LUN for the / system and am wondering if it is a good idea to define this with multipathing, or is it better to add more disks to the mix and multipath those that are only used for say dat

Re: running commands at boot (SuSE vs RedHat)

2004-11-01 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2004-11-01 at 22:07, Jim Sibley wrote: > I've found that I can issue commands at boot in SuSE > using /etc/init.d/boot.local. /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.local is there for customisation at the end of the boot run. You can also of course write your own /etc/rc.d/init.d/* files and have the servic

Re: VM direcotry entry for POSIXINFO

2004-11-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:59:13 -0800, Jim Sibley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed that the VM DIRMAINT entry for my Linux > guest has a entry for "POSIXINFO". I thought this was > only for MVS. Does it serve a useful purpose for a > Linux guest? No, it's for VM Open Extensions. Linux does not

running commands at boot (SuSE vs RedHat)

2004-11-01 Thread Jim Sibley
I've found that I can issue commands at boot in SuSE using /etc/init.d/boot.local. Does RedHAT EL3 have a similar mechanism? = Jim Sibley "Computers are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself). ___

Re: Setting up VMNFS

2004-11-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:42:11 -0800, Wolfe, Gordon W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone hae a makefile for mountpw.c for SLES8? > > Also, I can't find rpc/rpctypes.h in SLES8 I recall you must tell it that you're an RS6000, probably with a -D flag. -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gma

VM direcotry entry for POSIXINFO

2004-11-01 Thread Jim Sibley
I noticed that the VM DIRMAINT entry for my Linux guest has a entry for "POSIXINFO". I thought this was only for MVS. Does it serve a useful purpose for a Linux guest? = Jim Sibley "Computers are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one

Re: Setting up VMNFS

2004-11-01 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
Anyone hae a makefile for mountpw.c for SLES8? Also, I can't find rpc/rpctypes.h in SLES8 So one elephant says to another, "You'll never believe what happened last night. I was trying on Groucho Marx's pajamas--and he shot me!" Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing

Re: What causes VM to lock pages into memory?

2004-11-01 Thread David Kreuter
Locked pages are the result of a delibarate CP LOCK command issued by a privileged user. A locked page from a CP LOCK is permanently resident until unlocked and is not subject to paging by CP. Locked pages are also done on a temporary basis by CP for the duration of I/O instructions - pages that co

Re: JSVC on S390

2004-11-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:01:39 -0800, Benjamin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JSVC configure didn't run on s390. Is there another > way to run a JAVA daemon? Is there a fix to allow > JSVC on s390? Don't know about this one, but sometimes packages include an old version of autoconf. You may be

Re: What causes VM to lock pages into memory?

2004-11-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:03:06 -0600, Kohrs, Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Through the Perf. Kit for VM, screen 22. User Paging Activity and > Storage Utilization, we're seeing that our Web servers are requesting a > large number of pages to be locked in their private address spaces. > What is

What causes VM to lock pages into memory?

2004-11-01 Thread Kohrs, Steven
Through the Perf. Kit for VM, screen 22. User Paging Activity and Storage Utilization, we're seeing that our Web servers are requesting a large number of pages to be locked in their private address spaces. What is the cause of this behavior? Is it a bad thing? We had a total z/VM melt down last w

JSVC on S390

2004-11-01 Thread Benjamin White
JSVC configure didn't run on s390. Is there another way to run a JAVA daemon? Is there a fix to allow JSVC on s390? __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com -- For L

Installation of SLES9 hangs on 'creating initrd'

2004-11-01 Thread dclark
I searched the archives regarding subject of "hangs on 'creating initrd'" and I did not find a resolution. I took the script that Mike MacIsaac wrote and modified it to use the -e parameter as noted in the e-mail thread. I have included my version of the mkinstallroot script as well as the order

Re: Hipersocket MTU invalid argument SLES 9

2004-11-01 Thread Seader, Cameron
yeah i think you are right. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 09:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hipersocket MTU invalid argument SLES 9 On Monday, 11/01/2004 at 08:42 MST, "Seader, Cameron" <

Re: Hipersocket MTU invalid argument SLES 9

2004-11-01 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 11/01/2004 at 08:42 MST, "Seader, Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is that? i was able to do 64k on SLES 8 Actually, Cameron, you were not. HiperSockets are physically incapable of handling an MTU larger than 56K. You may have *specified* 64K, but you didn't *get* 64K. Alan

Re: Hipersocket MTU invalid argument SLES 9

2004-11-01 Thread Seader, Cameron
ok, now i understand thank you for the info. -Cameron -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dennis Musselwhite Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 08:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hipersocket MTU invalid argument SLES 9 From Cameron Seader: >

Re: Hipersocket MTU invalid argument SLES 9

2004-11-01 Thread Dennis Musselwhite
>From Cameron Seader: > I am getting an error when starting my hipersocket up. > SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument > Why am i getting this error, shouldn't it take '65535' as a valid mtu size? > I never had this problem on SLES 8, did something change? > I'm also noticeing that my mtu is being d

Re: Hipersocket MTU invalid argument SLES 9

2004-11-01 Thread Seader, Cameron
Why is that? i was able to do 64k on SLES 8 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Miguel Diaz Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 08:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hipersocket MTU invalid argument SLES 9 The maximum MTU on HiperSockets is 8K le

Re: Hipersocket MTU invalid argument SLES 9

2004-11-01 Thread Miguel Diaz
The maximum MTU on HiperSockets is 8K less than the MFS defined for the device, so if the MFS is 64K, the maximum MTU is 56K. Regards, Miguel Diaz Staff Software Engineer z/VM TCP/IP Development IBM Corporation 607.429.3504 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Seader, Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux

Hipersocket MTU invalid argument SLES 9

2004-11-01 Thread Seader, Cameron
Greetings, I am getting an error when starting my hipersocket up. SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument Why am i getting this error, shouldn't it take '65535' as a valid mtu size? I never had this problem on SLES 8, did something change? I'm also noticeing that my mtu is being dropped to 57344 acc