3270 console confusion

2008-08-07 Thread Robin Atwood
I have found various threads about using NED on a 3270 console to zLinux and I thought this was a good idea. I read the 3270 HOWTO on linuxvm.org but it seemed no longer relevant to recent kernels; I am running 2.6.26. I have no tub3270 module so there is nothing under /proc/tty/drivers and so conf

Re: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Perry
Pieter Harder wrote: - What are your z/VM SRM parameters? The defaults aren't good for Linux workloads. I beg to disagree (sorry, Barton!). I have been running for years with the defaults and never had an E-list problem. If you do, my suggestion is that your system is wrongly set up. Most likel

Re: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Pieter Harder
>>>- What are your z/VM SRM parameters? The defaults aren't good for Linux >>> workloads. >> I beg to disagree (sorry, Barton!). I have been running for years with the >> defaults and never had an E-list problem. If you do, my suggestion is that >> your system is wrongly set up. Most likely your p

Re: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/7/2008 at 3:28 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pieter Harder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Whenever I hear about z/VM guests "going to sleep" the first things out of >> my > mouth are: >>- Do you have a z/VM performance monitor? What's it telling you about > Elibible lists? Real

Re: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Pieter Harder
>Whenever I hear about z/VM guests "going to sleep" the first things out of my >mouth are: >- Do you have a z/VM performance monitor? What's it telling you about >Elibible lists? Really, you need to get a >monitor. No, really. I fully agree about the need for a performance monitor, but that is

Vacation

2008-08-07 Thread Dennis Hamrick
I will be out of the office starting 08/07/2008 and will not return until 08/15/2008. Not recieving email until I return. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with t

Re: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/7/2008 at 11:55 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Quay, Jonathan (IHG)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > The RH and Suse support folks > should probably be trained to ask about this for anything that sounds > like a mystery hang or timeout on Z. Whenever I hear about z/VM guests

Re: AW: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
This reminds me We have an obscure z/VM partition with a few linux guests on it that don't require a lot of babysitting, as they are not really production applications. A person in another group requested a new virtual machine to install the latest RHEL, so I gave it to him. Later on I asked

Re: VNC problem

2008-08-07 Thread Stahr, Lea
I found it and it ran OK. The password is required for the web interface only. The Windows client does not ask for it. Thanks to all!!! Lea Stahr zVM, Linux and zLinux Administrator Navistar, Inc. 630-753-5445 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: VNC problem

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/7/2008 at 11:32 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stahr, Lea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I enter on port 5901 it takes me immediately to the Linux login > screen. I cannot find vncpassword and it does not execute. Sorry, that should have been "vncpasswd." It's part of the tigh

Re: VNC problem

2008-08-07 Thread Stahr, Lea
When I enter on port 5901 it takes me immediately to the Linux login screen. I cannot find vncpassword and it does not execute. Lea Stahr zVM, Linux and zLinux Administrator Navistar, Inc. 630-753-5445 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: VNC problem

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/7/2008 at 9:04 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stahr, Lea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried the web interface and it responded to 5801, but I had to > give it ROOT password to get a login screen. Can I set the VMC password > separately from the ROOT password? Yes. Logon t

Re: AW: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Barton Robinson
Ok, Lea, i know i shouldn't do email before coffee. It's just problems like this have caused many installations to say "We tried linux, had performance problems nobody could fix so we abandoned the project". So see the CONFIGuration guidelines on our website, not as good as going to class, but

Re: Regina and/of THE (The Hessling Editor) install?

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 8/7/2008 at 9:14 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Shedlock, George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone installed either of these products on z/Linux (SUSE)? If so, > can you provide some detailed instructions to do so? I am assuming that > I will have to install from source and h

Re: AW: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Stahr, Lea
OK Barton, I fixed it. Calm down. My company does not believe in classes. I had a Windows Server class in 1997 or 1998 and am working VM/Linux with no classes. Lea Stahr zVM, Linux and zLinux Administrator Navistar, Inc. 630-753-5445 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Li

Re: AW: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Barton Robinson
NO NO NO NO, PLEASE NO Anybody who raises LDUBUF really needs to look at their paging devices AND know if users are loading. Raising LDUBUF is one of the WORST things you can do for performance - it either does nothing, or allows you to page to death. The ONLY documented performance analysis o

Re: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
I have discovered that the default STORBUF and LDUBUF settings aren't optimized for VM systems who's purpose is to run guest operating systems. My TPF and Linux guests live in Q3, and I have very few, if any, Q1 and Q2 interactive users, so I overcommit storage for Q3 users. I never want an el

Re: AW: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Stahr, Lea
Thanks Gary. I am using the default LDUBUF : Q1=100% Q2=75% Q3=60% and will try this, then the STORBUF: Q1=140% Q2=130% Q3=120%. Lea Stahr zVM, Linux and zLinux Administrator Navistar, Inc. 630-753-5445 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto

Re: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread John Summerfield
Rempel, Horst wrote: Hello, one of our Linux sles9 SP4 DB2 databaseservers running under z/VM 5.3.0 RSU0801 felt yesterday afternoon in a kind of coma. I must remember that description, I have some systems that tend to do exactly that:-) -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI

Re: AW: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Gary Detro
here is what I use for a linux system LDUBUF : Q1=200% Q2=200% Q3=200% STORBUF: Q1=300% Q2=200% Q3=200% It is probably your LDUBUF for Q3 users that is causing it.Change that one 1st and see how it does. Thanks, Detro Senior IT Specialist 1177 S. Beltline Rd, Coppell, TX 75019 Int

AW: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Rempel, Horst
Hello Jonathan, I can see in perftk that LX004 was in CL3,ELIG while sleeping. Here are my srm-settings: q srm IABIAS : INTENSITY=90%; DURATION=2 LDUBUF : Q1=100% Q2=75% Q3=60% STORBUF: Q1=125% Q2=105% Q3=95% DSPBUF : Q1=32767 Q2=32767 Q3=32767 DISPAT

Regina and/of THE (The Hessling Editor) install?

2008-08-07 Thread Shedlock, George
Has anyone installed either of these products on z/Linux (SUSE)? If so, can you provide some detailed instructions to do so? I am assuming that I will have to install from source and have not done that before. George Shedlock Jr AEGON Information Technology AEGON USA 502-560-3541 --

Re: VNC problem

2008-08-07 Thread Stahr, Lea
I just tried the web interface and it responded to 5801, but I had to give it ROOT password to get a login screen. Can I set the VMC password separately from the ROOT password? I am sorry for all my questions, I am not trained on Linux and am doing OJT. Lea Stahr zVM, Linux and zLinux Administrat

Re: VNC problem

2008-08-07 Thread Stahr, Lea
I was using a W2000 client and VNC did not respond to :1 or :2, but it did respond on :5901. The doc said 5801 and did not state browser only. Lea Stahr zVM, Linux and zLinux Administrator Navistar, Inc. 630-753-5445 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[

Re: VNC problem

2008-08-07 Thread Romanowski, John (OFT)
vnc listens on 5901-59nn corresponding to client sessions :1-:nn Client converts :1-:nn to ports 5901-59nn vnc listens on 5801-58nn for browser vnc connections; Are you using browser client for your 5801 attempt or desktop client? > This e-

Re: VNC problem

2008-08-07 Thread Stahr, Lea
I used port 5901 to get through the firewall and it worked. Dumb me. Lea Stahr zVM, Linux and zLinux Administrator Navistar, Inc. 630-753-5445 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stahr, Lea Sent: Thursday, August 07, 20

Re: VNC problem

2008-08-07 Thread Stahr, Lea
I tried that and I could not get it to work, The firewall stopped all access. I tried the standard port 2 and I tried 5801. Lea Stahr zVM, Linux and zLinux Administrator Navistar, Inc. 630-753-5445 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Next Baybunch at IBM San Francisco-Friday Aug 6

2008-08-07 Thread Stahr, Lea
Friday August 6 of what year? Lea Stahr zVM, Linux and zLinux Administrator Navistar, Inc. 630-753-5445 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pamela Christina - warm and sunny Endicott NY Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 5:34

Re: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
Look back in the performance toolkit data and see if an eligible list formed around the time LX004 hung up. You may need to add more paging exposures and/or adjust your SRM. From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Rempel, Horst Sent: Thu 8/7/2008 6:49 AM To: LINUX

Re: Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Gary Detro
You might want to take a look at your Query SRM command. Check and see if your LDUBUF and STORBUF have settings below 100%. If you are still using the defaults it can lock Q3 users out from doing any work. Thanks, Detro Senior IT Specialist 1177 S. Beltline Rd, Coppell, TX 75019 Internal Ma

Linux sles9 felt in coma

2008-08-07 Thread Rempel, Horst
Hello, one of our Linux sles9 SP4 DB2 databaseservers running under z/VM 5.3.0 RSU0801 felt yesterday afternoon in a kind of coma. The linux stopped running. The putty-session got an timeout. I was no longer able to ping. The processor for this lpar was only 20% busy for other linux guests at thi