Re: LINUX 31-bit vs. 64-bit distribution

2005-08-24 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 24, 2005, at 3:47 PM, John Summerfied wrote: I see one _can_ get into trouble choosing 32-bit Linux. What reasons are there to not choose 64-bit? Increased memory consumption, less-well-tested system apps and libraries. Adam

Re: LINUX 31-bit vs. 64-bit distribution

2005-08-24 Thread John Summerfied
Michael MacIsaac wrote: I follow that same recommendation and got into trouble. Sorry, Peter. There are more and more applications that require 64-bit. So I'd like to retract that with something much softer such as: "Be sure you know whether the workload you intend to run requires a 64-bit

Re: LINUX 31-bit vs. 64-bit distribution

2005-08-24 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Craig, Early in the redbook project, I probably wrote the sentence: "A rule of thumb may be to use a 31-bit distribution unless you know why you need a 64-bit distribution." It seems the editors hardened the statement somewhat to: "We recommend that you follow the rule of thumb to use a 31-bi

Re: LINUX 31-bit vs. 64-bit distribution

2005-08-24 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
And remember, Oracle 10g is 64-bit only as well. However, if you're not using 64-bit applications, only using things like apache and samba, and your users aren't using lots of java to where they need more than 2GB of virtual storage, 31-bit linux is fine. In fact, some things (like the diag di

Re: LINUX 31-bit vs. 64-bit distribution

2005-08-24 Thread Little, Chris
But they will support a 32bit Websphere running on a 64 bit linux? things that make you go hmm. > -Original Message- > From: Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 2:32 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: LINUX 31-bit v

Re: LINUX 31-bit vs. 64-bit distribution

2005-08-24 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
I follow that same recommendation and got into trouble. We installed 32-bit SuSE SLES9 and went through all the customizations and configurations only to find out that IBM will not support WebSphere on a 32-bit Linux that is running on a 64-bit processor unless you go back to SLES8. Huh? You might

Re: LINUX 31-bit vs. 64-bit distribution

2005-08-24 Thread Rich Smrcina
At this point the vast majority of S390 and zSeries sites use SuSE. All of the customers that I support use SuSE. The choice of 31-bit vs 64-bit is very much related to the software that is supported. More and more IBM and vendor software is being supported (or at least tolerated) in 64-bit Lin

LINUX 31-bit vs. 64-bit distribution

2005-08-24 Thread Craig Loubser
The IBM Redbook "z/VM and LINUX on zSeries - From LPAR to Virtual Servers in Two days" in Chapter 5.2 "Setting up an SLES9 Install Tree" states that "We recommend that you follow the rule of thumb to use a 31-bit distribution unless you know why you need a 64-bit distribution." with no further expl

Re: Mainframe REXX EXEC to logon to zVM Linux instance and issue commands

2005-08-24 Thread Jon Brock
I use REXEC to do pretty much what Gordon describes below, except that I can't monitor the results of the SIGNAL SHUTDOWN command, so I just use a sleep program to pause my z/OS job. I have ordered the z/OS add-ons so that I can start using ssh, which should be more secure and give me m

linux-390 BILLY WOODS digest

2005-08-24 Thread Billy Woods
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[PATCH 10/15] s390: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed S390 architecture specific users of asm/segment.h and asm-s390/segment.h itself Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 6ee9ded730a875d63e42add1c3094eca7d5a6cdf tree 5d340a409fd593e5f5d7e71467a038fd90def51b parent 8f20e153d5d5c3efd95835e814fae7b3ccbfcd08 author Kumar K. G

A. Harry Williams

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Jones
Folks, our colleague A. Harry Williams of Marist College is in the news today. Read what he has to say about virtualization at: http://www.networkworld.com/nldatacenternews5704 While z/VM is mentioned only in passing, his comments are insightful and worth a look, imho. Dave Jones V/Soft Softwar

Re: Large Mail file and Warn file

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Thanks, > Would you be willing to send a listing of your logrotate.config > file?. /etc/logrotate.d/syslog is installed with your syslog package Just make sure you have logrotate installed and set up in cron (normally this is done automatically for you, run daily). ~ Daniel ---