Re: DASD IO Performance problems

2007-06-14 Thread Harold Grovesteen
And, out of curiosity, what was the result of the CPU test? I suspect this was to determine how many CPU's you would need to license for the software. Harold Grovesteen Yu Safin wrote: We ran a very extensive set of Oracle-Java benchmarks that compared I/O's on an EMC Symm under AIX/P-570 ver

Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-14 Thread Phil Smith III
"Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Nope, I still get the same message. Mary, try right-clicking and saving the document -- that often works for some reason. Or try another browser. Or try it from home... ...phsiii

Re: DASD IO Performance problems

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Perry
Eric and Barbara Sammons wrote: Looking into performance problems, in search of some ideas of what to look for. I believe the issue may be related to the type of DASD being used. Scenario, dd command to generate a 1G file if=/dev/zero takes 15s on x86_64 platform. The same command takes 15m on

Re: DASD IO Performance problems

2007-06-14 Thread Eric Sammons
Mark, here are the stats I just collected on my z/VM 5.2 install running RHEL 4U4. time dd bs=1024 count=1048576 if=/dev/zero of=/test1 1048576+0 records in 1048576+0 records out real0m44.681s user0m0.090s sys 0m6.810s This is leveraging 3390-3 devices. As for my issue where I hav

PAV and RHEL 4 issue, not found on pathvec

2007-06-14 Thread Eric Sammons
Hi, I am trying to configure PAV on RHEL 4 and am running into a problem. I have been working from the "How to Improve Performance with PAV November 17, 2006" document. So it appears PAV is configured. i.e. DASD 0100 ON DASD 304F R/W 0X0100 SUBCHANNEL = *DASD 0101 ON DASD 314F R/W 0X01

Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-14 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:36:50 -0400 Phil Smith III said: >"Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Nope, I still get the same message. >Mary, try right-clicking and saving the document -- that often works for some >reason. Or try another browser. Or try it from home... I don't remember

Re: WAVV presentations

2007-06-14 Thread Rich Smrcina
I sent them to Charlie Rice... I'll give him a nudge and send it to you privately. Bill Dodge wrote: Rich, Are you going to put a link to your presentations on the WAVV page? I wanted to print a couple of extra copies of CICS REXX for some interested parties. -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, In

Re: PAV and RHEL 4 issue, not found on pathvec

2007-06-14 Thread Bradford Hinson
This looks related to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238983 (see error msg at end of comment 0) On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 08:56 -0400, Eric Sammons wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to configure PAV on RHEL 4 and am running into a problem. I > have been working from the "How to Im

Re: PAV and RHEL 4 issue, not found on pathvec

2007-06-14 Thread Eric Sammons
This is not the exact issue I am seeing... Here are my results and this is the case before and after the change to multipath.conf per the bugz workaround. # multipath # # multipath -v3 load path identifiers cache # # all paths in cache : # path dasda not found in pathvec = path info dasda (

Re: DASD IO Performance problems

2007-06-14 Thread barton
So this experiment ran at the rated speed of an Escon channel? None of these measurements on this thread show what the limiter is - so this is performance by wag? Mark Perry wrote: Eric and Barbara Sammons wrote: Looking into performance problems, in search of some ideas of what to look fo

Re: FTP server doing compression

2007-06-14 Thread Eddie Chen
I went to look at the source of vsftpd and make a quick modification in the code at ftpdataio.c to do the compress. the modifaction is very simple. by adding popen to do the fork(). the only issue I have is during the download, "500 OOPS child died"... I need to do a trace. otherwise everything

Re: DASD IO Performance problems

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:54 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So this experiment ran at the rated speed of an Escon channel? None of these > measurements > on this thread show what the limiter is - so this is performance by wag? No, it's more a case of

Re: DASD IO Performance problems

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 8:41 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Sammons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > and finally it looks > like they have set up the Linux guests with a single CPU. So in general > it looks like some design tweaking and their performance should improve. Unless

Re: DASD IO Performance problems

2007-06-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 6/14/07, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unless those guests are pegged at 100% CPU for that one CPU, giving them a second virtual CPU won't help, and will likely hurt. According to Rob van der Heij, adding a second CPU frequently causes the guest to not drop out of queue, and the z/

Re: FAQS/PCS - Demanding an event in batch for the next 8 AM

2007-06-14 Thread Tom Cluster
Actually, I think I know how to do that: // EXEC REXXBAT,PARM='DCDOWN' So is it your impression that PCS variables and IBM variables are totally different despite the fact that they both begin with an ampersand? I'll have to do some experimenting. Thanks, Bill! - Tom. At 10:40 AM 6/14/

Re: Mini-survey: Linux usability

2007-06-14 Thread Yu Safin
> and (item two) figuring out how to set up a gui interface. Most Linux > classes teach gui sysadmin interfaces. The teacher looks at you funny > when you continue to ask about command line alternatives. :-) You need to hang out with more Slackers, then. We give odd looks to people that want

Re: Oracle workload profile differences

2007-06-14 Thread Yu Safin
If you are using standard Oracle tools for checking I/O response times, then I can tell you that they match VM Toolkit reporting. When we ran on aix/sun and compared to zVM and Linux on z-Series, we found the numbers to be very much the same. The only thing that the Oracle tools cannot do is the

Re: DASD IO Performance problems

2007-06-14 Thread Yu Safin
On 6/13/07, Robert J Brenneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd like to know what you used for that workload if it's publicly available. It sounds like it might be a nice thrasher to use for testing system recoverability and what not. The workload tested was for a mission critical application in

Re: DASD IO Performance problems

2007-06-14 Thread Yu Safin
On 6/14/07, Harold Grovesteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And, out of curiosity, what was the result of the CPU test? I suspect this was to determine how many CPU's you would need to license for the software. Given the company's workloads, peaks and valleys, current usage, contingencies and head

SLES9 to SLES10 upgrade

2007-06-14 Thread Clark, Douglas
I have completed a new install of SLES10 in a stand alone LPAR. But I would rather upgrade from SLES9 to SLES10 if I can. I get through the process fine until it gets to the "Finish Basic Installation" window and it tries to Install boot manager. I keep getting an error "Error occurred while ins