Re: Swap oddities

2007-10-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10/30/07, Marcy Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > huge 15 IFL at peak app :)... We've had our share there of these and > badly written code before... The generational GC, new with 6.1, seems > to be a *phenomonal* difference (and I don't say that lightly never > believing that perf knobs at

Re: Swap oddities

2007-10-29 Thread Marcy Cortes
Thanks Vic! JVM heap size and garbage collection seem to be under control. Believe me, this is well looked at by both us and IBM's finest since it is a huge 15 IFL at peak app :)... We've had our share there of these and badly written code before... The generational GC, new with 6.1, seems to

Re: Swap oddities

2007-10-29 Thread Vic Cross
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:19:33 am Marcy Cortes wrote: > I'm not sure it is working as designed. I never said it was a good design -- and perhaps I should have read your earlier messages prior to saying that. :) It does depend on your point of view though -- it's another one of these aspects that be

Re: Swap oddities

2007-10-29 Thread Marcy Cortes
Interesting! Thanks for your response Vic. I'm not sure it is working as designed. Eventually, when we use up our swap, WAS crashes OOM (that's *our* real issue, at least our biggest one anyway :). But if we are able to swapoff/swapon and recover that space without crashing WAS that kind a says

Re: Trouble installing Tomcat

2007-10-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Oct 29, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Mark Post wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 4:08 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- Although most distros provide rgrep now, which does the same thing but is somewhat shorter. rgrep target directory. I don't see rgr

Re: Trouble installing Tomcat

2007-10-29 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 4:08 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > Although most distros provide rgrep now, which does the same thing > but is somewhat shorter. rgrep target directory. I don't see rgrep anywhere on SLES10, so not an option for

Re: Trouble installing Tomcat

2007-10-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Oct 29, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Mark Post wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 3:42 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not sure how to do that. The iso file is mounted (per your suggestion last week) with the following command: mount -o loop "SLES-10-IBM zSe

Re: Trouble installing Tomcat

2007-10-29 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 3:42 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure how to do that. The iso file is mounted (per your suggestion > last week) with the following command: > > mount -o loop "SLES-10-IBM zSeries-DVD1.iso" /sles10/sles10root/dvd

Re: Draft Redpaper: "z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: Implementing a Shared Root File System"

2007-10-29 Thread Nigel Bowen
Hi any plans for a version based on Red Hat ? Thanks Nigel -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:08 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Draft Redpaper: "z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: Implem

Re: Trouble installing Tomcat

2007-10-29 Thread Paul Noble
I'm not sure how to do that. The iso file is mounted (per your suggestion last week) with the following command: mount -o loop "SLES-10-IBM zSeries-DVD1.iso" /sles10/sles10root/dvd1, where /sles10/sles10root/dvd1 is an empty directory that I created. On the ftp server, where we have the ISO ima

Draft Redpaper: "z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: Implementing a Shared Root File System"

2007-10-29 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hello all "linux-390" and "ibmvm"ers, A draft Redpaper "Sharing and maintaining Linux under z/VM" is now up on http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp4322.html?Open Here is the abstract: "Large operating systems, such as z/OSĀ®, have, for several decades, leveraged shared file struc

Re: Trouble installing Tomcat

2007-10-29 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 2:19 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > It found tomcat and auto-selected (is that the right term?) the following: Good enough for me. What it's doing is satisfying inter-package dependencies. -snkp- > "Package was not

Trouble installing Tomcat

2007-10-29 Thread Paul Noble
Thanks for everyone's help last week, with my attempts to mount the installation media for my SLES10 virtual machine. That worked like a charm. However, now I'm having another problem. The user who has requested this system needs Apache, Tomcat and mysql. I have installed mysql successfully and

Re: Swap oddities

2007-10-29 Thread Vic Cross
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:41:16 am Marcy Cortes wrote: > So, if I'm understanding right, those would be dirty pages no longer > needed hanging out there in swap? That's right -- but you'll get arguments on the definition of "no longer needed". Having sent a page to the swap device, Linux will keep

Re: Use of DIAG Calls in z/VM

2007-10-29 Thread David Boyes
> may I know what for these DIAG calls actually,and how they are going to > help to access the dasds from other operating systems other than Linux on > Z-server. Not quite clear what you're asking here, but here's a guess: DIAGnose calls are used to abstract some important system function into a

Re: Use of DIAG Calls in z/VM

2007-10-29 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 4:38 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Use of DIAG Calls in z/VM > > > Hi all, > may I know what for these DIAG calls actually,and how they

Re: Use of DIAG Calls in z/VM

2007-10-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > may I know what for these DIAG calls actually,and how they are going to help > to access the dasds from other operating systems other than Linux on Z-server. I have no idea what your question is. The diagnose instruction is what some o

Use of DIAG Calls in z/VM

2007-10-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, may I know what for these DIAG calls actually,and how they are going to help to access the dasds from other operating systems other than Linux on Z-server. Thanks rajasekhar duddu. - Get your free Email ID at www.zapakmail.c