Re: weird(?) idea for an extended symlink functionality

2009-11-16 Thread Shane
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 03:49 +, Bishop, Peter wrote: With zLinux named pipes I think there will be more than one read for each record, viz one for the cat command and one for the pipe itself (perhaps two if the program then has to issue another read to get the data from the pipe).

Re: weird(?) idea for an extended symlink functionality

2009-11-16 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Sunday 15 November 2009 18:32, Leslie Turriff wrote: I wonder how intelligent the Linux pipe mechanism is? If the connection works by something equivalent to QSAM's get/locate, put/locate, the overhead would be miniscule; just passing pointers and reactivating the pipeline stages? It's

Re: Hugepages+oracle 10.0.2.0.4 in sles10SP2

2009-11-16 Thread Joe Comitini
We're looking into it but I think the official word is that it's not supported by Oracle ... Please check with your Oracle rep Joe -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Szefler Jakub Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 6:08 AM To:

Re: chccwdev never returning on SLES 11

2009-11-16 Thread Judson West
While the sleep 1 was in clone.sh, the sync was not. I inserted the sync after the dd and clone.sh is working again and not hanging on the chccwdev -d. Thanks for the assist. Judson West Systems Programming Team Teradata Corporation -Original Message-

Re: Hugepages+oracle 10.0.2.0.4 in sles10SP2

2009-11-16 Thread Richard Gasiorowski
Jakub, I do not see the benefit of hugepages and system z linux. My answer is simply does not apply. Richard (Gaz) Gasiorowski Global System z Linux Virutalization and Mainframce Services Product Manager Americas RPE Portfolio Platform Services CSC 3170 Fairview Park Dr., Falls Church, VA

Re: weird(?) idea for an extended symlink functionality

2009-11-16 Thread Bishop, Peter
Thanks again Shane, were you testing with tapes? I'm going to see what I can do to set up a test against our tape library and get some real results to work with. best regards Peter Peter Bishop HP Enterprise Services Asia Pacific South Mainframe Capability Engineering +61 2 9012 5147

IBM Solutions Edition for Enterprise Linux

2009-11-16 Thread Marcy Cortes
Cross posted to linux-390 and ibmvm: I kind of waited to see if anyone from IBM would even mention this here. It came out last week. Prices have come down... a lot... http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/solutions/editions/linux.html Those of you thinking of consolidating or even adding more

Re: weird(?) idea for an extended symlink functionality

2009-11-16 Thread Ivan Warren
It's not quite that smart. Linux has to copy the data from kernel-space buffers into user-space memory, at least. So even if the block of data is in the page cache, there's still a copy operation. It doesn't just give a pointer to the kernel's block to a process, which is I think what you're