Re: Reducing Linux virtual machine size

2010-07-26 Thread Mrohs, Ray
My guess is that Oracle runs a few processes using shared memory. The script just totals all the procs, shared or not, so shared memory applications will definitely skew the results. Ray -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tom

Re: DB2 direct i/o question

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
After reading some more, it turns out you cannot do direct i/o on linux for z if you are using ECKD dasd, only FCP. Which I guess is why the default is off on this platform but not on Intel. Is there a way to limit the amount of memory used for page cache? Marcy This message may contain

OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Daniel Tate
We're running websphere on a z9 under z/VM 4 systems are live out of 8. it is running apps that consume around 16GB of memory on a Windows machine. on this, we have allocated 10G of real storage (RAM) and around 35GB of Swap.When websphere starts, it consumes all the memory eventually and

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
First of all, you've run out of memory on that server (Swap: 35764956k total, 35764956k used,) It ate all of the 10G and all of the 35G of swap. How many JVM's are running and what are their min/max heap sizes? Marcy “This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If

Re: IFL's, VM, and Linux

2010-07-26 Thread Sam Bass
Does this mean that CPU 02 and 03 are unavailable for any other z/VM guest? Sam Bass -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Long Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 2:04 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: IFL's, VM, and Linux Progress

Re: IFL's, VM, and Linux

2010-07-26 Thread Harder, Pieter
The CPU's in the user directory are virtual ones, not related to real CPU's in any way. Best regards, Pieter Harder pieter.har...@brabantwater.nl tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] Namens Sam Bass

Re: IFL's, VM, and Linux

2010-07-26 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 07/26/2010 at 12:17 EDT, Sam Bass sam.b...@mclaneco.com wrote: Does this mean that CPU 02 and 03 are unavailable for any other z/VM guest? No. Those are *virtual* CPU definitions. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott

Re: IFL's, VM, and Linux

2010-07-26 Thread Sam Bass
I guess I don't understand the difference between VM Listserve Suggestion MACHINE ESA 2 CPU 02 CPU 03 COMMAND SET VCONFIG MODE LINUX COMMAND DEFINE CPU 02 03 TYPE IFL And VM Listserve Suggestion MACHINE ESA 2 CPU 02 CPU 03 This is a q vconfig looks like q vconfig

Re: IFL's, VM, and Linux

2010-07-26 Thread Mark Pace
The 1st option is if you are running in an LPAR with mixed CPU types, CP IFL. The first option ensures that your Linux guest runs on an IFL. By default it will run on a CP. On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Sam Bass sam.b...@mclaneco.com wrote: I guess I don't understand the difference

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Daniel Tate
Yeah, i saw that.. problem is these same apps run on 16GB of mem on a windows box.. We have 28 JVMs and sizes are set to 50/256. On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: First of all, you've run out of memory on that server (Swap: 35764956k total,

Re: IFL's, VM, and Linux

2010-07-26 Thread Mark Post
On 7/26/2010 at 12:19 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Monday, 07/26/2010 at 12:17 EDT, Sam Bass sam.b...@mclaneco.com wrote: Does this mean that CPU 02 and 03 are unavailable for any other z/VM guest? No. Those are *virtual* CPU definitions. Which also means that you

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Mrohs, Ray
Set swappiness to 0. Can you just start 1 node as a test? Ray -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Tate Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:28 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS -

Re: Reducing Linux virtual machine size

2010-07-26 Thread Rogério Soares
Ray, please check this: db2p105:~ # free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 6025 4285 1739 0 16 4045 -/+ buffers/cache:223 5801 Swap:0 0 0 db2p105:~ # ps -eo pmem

Re: Reducing Linux virtual machine size

2010-07-26 Thread Mrohs, Ray
You currently have 6GB defined... ~40% of that is 2.4GB. I would try dropping the Linux memory to around 4GB, and maybe add some swap space. Ray -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rogério Soares Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 4:09

Wed. June 28 LVC-webcast -Linux on System z: Current Future Technologies

2010-07-26 Thread Pamela Christina in warmsunny endicott ny
Info and registration links are on the lvc page: http://www.vm.ibm.com/education/lvc/ Below is information from Julie with details about this Adobe webcast on Linux on System z. Please join us for the Linux webcast on Wednesday, July 28th that is offered twice this day: 9:00 AM EDT OR

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
I was going to suggest a dump and a ticket to Novell, but it looks like you aren't SP1, and so are unsupported. Anyway you could apply that and try again? Marcy “This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this

Wed. July 28 (not June) 28 LVC-webcast -Linux on System z: Current Future Technologies

2010-07-26 Thread Pamela Christina (meant to say july)
| sorry i meant to say July 28 (not June 28) Info and registration links are on the lvc page: http://www.vm.ibm.com/education/lvc/ Below is information from Julie with details about this Adobe webcast on Linux on System z. Please join us for the Linux webcast on Wednesday, July 28th that is

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Mark Post
On 7/26/2010 at 05:05 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: I was going to suggest a dump and a ticket to Novell, but it looks like you aren't SP1, and so are unsupported. SLES11 GA is fully supported until 6 months after SP1 went GA. Even after that, NTS supports the

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
Thanks for that clarification! Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:21 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems? On

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Daniel Tate
We set swappiness to 0 and started all servers. we will see if that helps and I will look into the sp level upgrade. Does anyone have any good tweeks for z websphere by chance? On Jul 26, 2010 4:59 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: Thanks for that clarification! Marcy

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
Do you run at all before you run out of memory? Have you tried just starting one of the apps at a time and seeing what each seems to do to memory usage? Could it be that one of them has a leak? I think all the tweaks are really app dependent. You'll have to measure with both a good VM

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Phil Tully
Hello I see you are you running 64bit WAS on Linux, are you running the 32bit version on windows? How close is the memory utilization on the windows machine? regards Phil Tully On 7/26/2010 12:07 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: First of all, you've run out of memory on that server (Swap: 35764956k

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Daniel Tate
I've included some statistics and other info from the system w/ swappiness=0 Yes, we ran for some time before OOM. We have started one at a time, but we did not do any deep investigation (it was our proof of concept). We have set swappiness to 0, to see if that changes things. Also opened a

Re: DB2 direct i/o question

2010-07-26 Thread Shane G
Short answer, no. This was discussed earlier in the year - see: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-390@vm.marist.edu/msg55911.html Shane ... On Tue, Jul 27th, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Marcy Cortes wrote: Is there a way to limit the amount of memory used for page cache?

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Shane G
Some more info please. ... you get a OOM condition ?. ... the/a large consumer gets killed ? ... the system halts (explain) ?. You *want* a system-wide panic ?. If so, setting /proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom to 1 will have the desired effect on non zLinux. Shane ... On Tue, Jul 27th, 2010 at 1:24

Re: IFL's, VM, and Linux

2010-07-26 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 07/26/2010 at 12:55 EDT, Sam Bass sam.b...@mclaneco.com wrote: I guess I don't understand the difference between VM Listserve Suggestion MACHINE ESA 2 CPU 02 CPU 03 COMMAND SET VCONFIG MODE LINUX COMMAND DEFINE CPU 02 03 TYPE IFL And VM Listserve