Re: zVM 3.1 at 100% CPU after z9 upgrade

2008-06-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As others have suggested, use something like Track, ESAMON, Perfkit/RTM to find out what is causing the high CPU utilization. And your focus would be the z/VM 3.1 guest first. The z/VM 5 system is happy to give available

Re: Reserved blocks on ext2/ext3 filesystems?

2008-06-19 Thread Carsten Otte
Ted Rodriguez-Bell wrote: Has anyone done any testing to see what the right reserved block percentage (-m to tune2fs or mke2fs) is? On the Berkeley Fast Filesystem the right number was 10%; the ext2/ext3 default is 5% so I assume that's pretty good for most Linux. But with so many layers

Re: Bogus CPU Utilization Numbers reported in the PTK for Linux guest

2008-06-19 Thread Bill Bitner
Mark posted a nice summary (pun intended). Just one clarification, OMEAGMON XE did ship support to properly normalize the CPU values for older releases of Linux. This shipped in September 2007 as VM64299 available for both the z/VM 5.2 and 5.3 versions of Performance Toolkit. PTF UM32169 for z/VM

Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

2008-06-19 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Rob van der Heij writes: When we saw the first new z/VM installations with Linux show up, I proposed a new feature for the Linux disk driver that would allow arbitrary tracks to be read and written (like the pipeline stages). That way a Linux guest could be used to backup the VM packs along

Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

2008-06-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Malcolm Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote writetrack and readtrack kernel modules for Linux 5 years ago which implement ioctls to do that along with simplistic userland utilities and they worked OK for me to transfer various VM and z/OS disks as images

SPident not showing SLES10-SP2

2008-06-19 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
I upgraded to SLES10-SP2 and all seems well. I then enter SPident because I like seeing SP2 installed and I get the following: CONCLUSION: System is NOT up-to-date! foundSLE-10-s390x-SP1 + online updates expected SLE-10-s390x-SP2 e! a SPident ?vvv indicates the following: -

Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

2008-06-19 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Rob van der Heij writes: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Malcolm Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote writetrack and readtrack kernel modules for Linux 5 years ago which implement ioctls to do that along with simplistic userland utilities and they worked OK for me to transfer various

Re: SPident not showing SLES10-SP2

2008-06-19 Thread Kim Goldenberg
Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco wrote: I upgraded to SLES10-SP2 and all seems well. I then enter SPident because I like seeing SP2 installed and I get the following: CONCLUSION: System is NOT up-to-date! foundSLE-10-s390x-SP1 + online updates expected SLE-10-s390x-SP2 e! a

Re: SPident not showing SLES10-SP2

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:14 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kim Goldenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- I get a bit concerned when a group (Novell) should know better than to require a cd-ripper on System z! It's hardly required. I don't have it installed on any of my System z guests.

Re: SPident not showing SLES10-SP2

2008-06-19 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
Agreed, this distribution is not the most optimized distribution (I do not if any are) for big blue. I cannot find 562.7 anywhere either. Peter Kim Goldenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU 06/19/2008 01:16 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port

Re: SPident not showing SLES10-SP2

2008-06-19 Thread David Stuart
And what about USB support? I haven't seen any USB ports on my 9672, and I don't think my (arriving soon) z9 has any, either. Maybe on the HMC? Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kim Goldenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SPident not showing SLES10-SP2

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:14 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], -snip- The copy of SP2 I just downloaded a day or two ago only has 562.4, not 562.7! Oh, and be careful not to confuse cdparanoia and cdparanoia-32bit. They do have different build numbers (.4 versus .7). Mark Post

Re: SPident not showing SLES10-SP2

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:39 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- What is this? I tried to uninstall this but started to receive many dependency chains. Did anyone else have this problem? Would it be easier to install

Re: SPident not showing SLES10-SP2

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:21 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what about USB support? What about it? I've published (two now) scripts to generate AutoYaST installation files that eliminate stuff like that. If you're not willing to use those

Re: SPident not showing SLES10-SP2

2008-06-19 Thread Romanowski, John (OFT)
I'm not familiar with SPident usage. Under what conditions will it report SLES10 SP2 instead of System is NOT up-to-date! ? This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is

Re: SPident not showing SLES10-SP2

2008-06-19 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
I do not know about these scripts. Where can I get a copy or am I too late? I would love to put my SLES on a diet. Things slip in because it is a dependency of a dependency of a dependency of a dependency . . . Peter Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port

SPident message clarification

2008-06-19 Thread Luis La Torre
We have installed SUSE 10 + SP2 succesfully and SPident shows on the controller: l CONCLUSION: System is up-to-date! foundSLE-10-s390x-SP2 + online updates Then, we cloned a guest and SPident shows: Summary (using 499 packages) Product/ServicePack

mixing IFLs and GPs in an LPAR

2008-06-19 Thread Little, Chris
possible? or no? +--+ | Chris Little OKDHS Platform Services | | IS Operating Systems Specialist IV | | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | work (405)522-1306 cell (405)312-1527 |

Re: mixing IFLs and GPs in an LPAR

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Pace
No on z9 and previous. z10, I'm not sure. On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Little, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: possible? or no? +--+ | Chris Little OKDHS Platform Services | | IS Operating Systems Specialist IV |

Re: mixing IFLs and GPs in an LPAR

2008-06-19 Thread Rich Smrcina
Currently, no. Little, Chris wrote: possible? or no? +--+ | Chris Little OKDHS Platform Services | | IS Operating Systems Specialist IV | | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | work (405)522-1306 cell

Re: mixing IFLs and GPs in an LPAR

2008-06-19 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Little, Chris Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:17 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: mixing IFLs and GPs in an LPAR possible? or no? +--+

Re: mixing IFLs and GPs in an LPAR

2008-06-19 Thread Feller, Paul
From the announcement information for the z10. Increased flexibility with z/VM-mode partitions System z10 EC provides for the definition of a z/VM-mode partition (LPAR) containing a mix of processor types including CPs and specialty processors IFLs, zIIPs, zAAPs, and ICFs. With the planned z/VM

Re: mixing IFLs and GPs in an LPAR

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:29 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Feller, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the announcement information for the z10. Increased flexibility with z/VM-mode partitions System z10 EC provides for the definition of a z/VM-mode partition (LPAR) containing a mix

Re: SPident not showing SLES10-SP2

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:50 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know about these scripts. Where can I get a copy or am I too late? I would love to put my SLES on a diet. Things slip in because it is a dependency of a

Re: SPident not showing SLES10-SP2

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:44 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Romanowski, John (OFT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not familiar with SPident usage. Under what conditions will it report SLES10 SP2 instead of System is NOT up-to-date! ? If all the RPMs on your system are at the SP2 level

Re: SPident message clarification

2008-06-19 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:15 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luis La Torre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have installed SUSE 10 + SP2 succesfully and SPident shows on the controller: l CONCLUSION: System is up-to-date! foundSLE-10-s390x-SP2 + online updates

Re: mixing IFLs and GPs in an LPAR

2008-06-19 Thread Stephen Frazier
Currently no. But it is coming. Soon? You need a z10 and z/VM later than 5.4 (z/VM 6.0 maybe). Little, Chris wrote: possible? or no? +--+ | Chris Little OKDHS Platform Services | | IS Operating Systems Specialist IV | |

Re: zVM 3.1 at 100% CPU after z9 upgrade

2008-06-19 Thread Ifurung, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you all for your response. It was decided to accelerate (like, right now) into production our current testing/development of upgrade from z/VM3.1 to z/VM5.3 . It is a big challenge to do it in such a short time. Thanks again, Ismael -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: mixing IFLs and GPs in an LPAR

2008-06-19 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 06/19/2008 at 03:42 EDT, Stephen Frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently no. But it is coming. Soon? You need a z10 and z/VM later than 5.4 (z/VM 6.0 maybe). A z/VM LPAR is a Statement of Direction in the z10 announcement from back in February. No dates were given and nothing