Re: Best Practices EVMS FCP Multipathing

2004-11-05 Thread Seader, Cameron
If you look up the EVMS manual and the FAQ on their website they give indication that if you want to do multipath on root filesystem you have to change things in startup in order to get it to work, they have scripts and workarounds for i386 platform and some others, but not s390. I was going to

Flushing the linux buffers periodically - pitfalls?

2004-11-05 Thread James Melin
There is a program in SLES8 (was also in SLES7) called flushb that appears to be useful for flushing the memory buffers on a per disk device basis. There is precious little documentation on this particular tidbit out there, however, I did find this link where the sources is posted:

Re: Do 64-bit Linux guests eliminate VM 2GB swapping?

2004-11-05 Thread Bill Bitner
Sorry, should have seen this discussion earlier. Since the majority of z/VM's control program (CP) is still 31-bit addressing, a guest page that CP is working with will tend to be brought below the 2GB bar. There are always exceptions of course. See http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/2gstorag.html

Betr.: Re: Do 64-bit Linux guests eliminate VM 2GB swapping?

2004-11-05 Thread Pieter Harder
Bill Bitner wrote: See http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/2gstorag.html for additional information. Bill, that page seems a bit out of date, is there anything more recent? So net is - 64-bit guests will not eliminate need to bring pages below 2GB (VM doesn't use 'swap' terminology). In fact there

Re: Do 64-bit Linux guests eliminate VM 2GB swapping?

2004-11-05 Thread Les Geer (607-429-3580)
There is any change in the VM code for the near future to solve this 2GB Bar problem ? A Statement Of Direction contained within recent z/VM 5.1 announce material: IBM intends to expand the exploitation of 64-bit support in future z/VM releases to provide better utilization of main storage

Dasdfmt performance on EMC dasd

2004-11-05 Thread Marcy Cortes
I was wondering if anyone here could do a little test for me. We have 2 environments. We've noticed that on our z900-escon-EMC DMX2000 DASD, dasdfmt of 10,000 cyl takes an awful long time - 25minutes (doing about 99 i/o sec - perf numbers show high DISC time). On our z990-ficon-HDS DASD,

Re: Installation of SLES9 hangs on 'creating initrd'

2004-11-05 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Doug, I went back and pulled down new set of ISO files and tried again. By chance do you have both sets of .iso files on the same system? It would be interesting to diff each pair of CDs. It's possible the first set is corrupted, but I have yet to see a corrupted byte from a completed FTP. If

Re: z/VM install from CD anyone?

2004-11-05 Thread Ranga Nathan
Thanks. As it happens, even rush order of DVDs will take some 10 days. By the time the media arrives (Nov 11 is the ETA), we would be ready to gen some addresses for tape drives. So, we hurry up and wait :-) __ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer -

Migration from Linux LPAR to VM

2004-11-05 Thread Ranga Nathan
Our z/VM environment includes the vols we genned into our Linux LPAR. I am assuming that after the VM install, we can create a guest and map the minidisks to the vols currently used by the Linux LPAR and bring it up as a guest. Will this work? I presume that I would have to change some config

Re: Exposing HTTPD services through a firewall to the outside world

2004-11-05 Thread Ranga Nathan
Hi James OK, I presume that 123.456.789.012 (firewall) should be NATed to 10.100.1.10 (proxy web server) 10.100.1.10 -- should redirect to -- 155.154.153.188 Once requests to http://123.456.789.012/cfrs (let us do only port 80 here) are forwarded to 10.100.1.10, according to your