Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread Neale Ferguson
Love it On 2/23/12 8:13 PM, "Shane G" wrote: > I must admit some ambivalence to being hamstrung by such "standards". > I did enjoy having a read of this: > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html -

Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
Yet another product that doesn't follow it :) Although the Tivoli products are way worse! Believe it or not, I have seen a few that do follow it. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Thursday, February

Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
I failed to say in my post to make sure wherever you choose to put those logs and dumps of WAS, make sure it is on its own file system so that only WAS dies when it fills and not say your security product that also needs /var, making it a bit of a challenge for the people that need to clean it t

Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread Shane G
I must admit some ambivalence to being hamstrung by such "standards". I did enjoy having a read of this: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html Shane ... > > ... > > The default in /opt/IBM is not a great option. > Per the FHS, I believe it should have been (should

Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread Rodger Donaldson
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:43:14 -0600, Mark Workman wrote: > What are recommended LVM mount points for a Linux guest? I currently use > /opt for my WebSphere installations, but occasionally fill up /. I generally use seperate partitions for: / /boot /home /tmp /usr /var ...on any server system.

Re: Oracle in virtual environments

2012-02-23 Thread Mauro Souza
My personal experience: I had a client using Oracle on Intel (a 16GB RAM, multicore Dell server), and they had a couple queries they had to run every day, at the end of the day. The job was taking 29 minutes. They exported the database, imported on a Linux on Z, same 16GB, same number of virtual pr

Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread David Boyes
> -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Mark Post > I usually build systems that look like this: > # df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/dasda1 388M 234M 134M 64% / > /dev/mapper/vg01-home

Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread RPN01
We set our systems up as follows: ts00086@rpndvm01 ~ $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_system-lv_root 3.9G 3.6G 178M 96% / /dev/mapper/vg_system-lv_var 3.0G 748M 2.1G 27% /var /dev/mapper/vg_local-lv_opt

Re: X11 Error

2012-02-23 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Issue resolved, I did not have the xserver installed on windows. Thank you very much! Matt -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Gregg Levine Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:28 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: X11 Error

Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 2/23/2012 at 10:43 AM, Mark Workman >>> wrote: > What are recommended LVM mount points for a Linux guest? I currently use > /opt for my WebSphere installations, but occasionally fill up /. I usually build systems that look like this: # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% M

Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread Michael MacIsaac
> ... > The default in /opt/IBM is not a great option. Per the FHS, I believe it should have been (should be) /var/opt/IBM/. "Mike MacIsaac"(845) 433-7061 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, se

Re: X11 Error

2012-02-23 Thread McKown, John
Another silly question: Did you install the X server? It is optional. If you did, have you restarted Windows since the installation? On my WinXP system, the X server is automagically started when I boot. I don't remember doing anything special to have this done for me. -- John McKown Systems E

Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
We change /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/wasprofile.properties to put logs elsewhere (variable WS_CMT_LOG_HOME) and profiles elsewhere (variable WS_PROFILE_REGISTRY and WS_WSPROFILE_DEFAULT_PROFILE_HOME) . Put then somewhere like /var/was or /app/was or whatever your installation stand

Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread Scott Rohling
Likely lots of answers, but here's one flavor: /var /usr /opt /tmp /home Any directory that is prone to 'growth' is a likely candidate to be a separate filesystem.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Mark Workman wrote: > What are recommended LVM mount points for a Linux guest? I

Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread Richard Troth
Wow ... there is no quick answer for this. Also, it doesn't matter if LVM is used or discrete disks (or minidisks). Your question is actually just Unix FS management. LVM does make enlargement easier. Commonly, /var holds service content. WebSphere is one of those packages which unfortunately d

Re: X11 Error

2012-02-23 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Looks maybe X windows did not get installed as part of my cygwin install? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:46 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: X11 Error Silly question from

LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Workman
What are recommended LVM mount points for a Linux guest? I currently use /opt for my WebSphere installations, but occasionally fill up /. Thanks, Mark Workman Shelter Insurance Companies 573.214.4672 mwork...@shelterinsurance.com This e-mail is intended only for its addressee and may contain in

Re: X11 Error

2012-02-23 Thread Richard Troth
Everything John said is spot-on. However, you can launch CYGWIN/X without the system tray icon. I usually ran it that way: The goal was "X is always there" and I liked having one less thingy in the systray. Used to do this all the time, Matt. But that was when I had to use Windows as my primar

Re: X11 Error

2012-02-23 Thread Gregg Levine
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Dazzo, Matt wrote: > I believe both Rich and John are correct in that Cygwin X server is NOT > running on my Windows box. There is no X in the bottom right hand corner. So > I tried starting it with command 'startxwin' and 'startx' and got command not > found.

Re: X11 Error

2012-02-23 Thread Dazzo, Matt
I believe both Rich and John are correct in that Cygwin X server is NOT running on my Windows box. There is no X in the bottom right hand corner. So I tried starting it with command 'startxwin' and 'startx' and got command not found. When I launch Cygwin and enter 'printenv DISPLAY' I see no se

Re: Does cpuplugd use the cpu hot plug interface?

2012-02-23 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Mark, The landscape of servers having this problem is SLES10. (And due to a number of unfortunate events, still SP3). The latest event being... We put the .95 (SP4) kernel into the developers QA system that belongs to this landscape and almost immediately ran into the ksoftirq problem. IBM h

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2012-02-23 Thread Jagos, Brian V
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Re: Oracle in virtual environments

2012-02-23 Thread van Sleeuwen, Berry
> -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Damian Gallagher > I have worked on numerous migration projects, where we have taken the > Win/*nix system with hundreds of GB of SGA, and run it on Linux on IBM > zSeries with much less memory

Re: X11 Error

2012-02-23 Thread McKown, John
Silly question from me, but do you have the Cygwin X server running on your Windows box? On my Windows/XP, on the bottom right of the screen are a bunch of icons. Once of which is a capital X in black with a red circle around the middle. This tells me that the X server is working. On the Windows

Re: X11 Error

2012-02-23 Thread Richard Troth
Looks like you did not start the X server on the CYGWIN side. If you had, it would have created the requisite content under /tmp. -- R; Rick Troth Velocity Software http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Dazzo, Matt wrote: > I installed cygwin on my windows XP work

X11 Error

2012-02-23 Thread Dazzo, Matt
I installed cygwin on my windows XP work station and connecting to RHEL5.6 server. I can sign on but get the following messages. This file /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 does not existing my RHEL server or on windows cygwin /tmp. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Matt MATT@MATT ~ $ export DISPLAY=:0.0 MATT@

Re: Oracle in virtual environments

2012-02-23 Thread van Sleeuwen, Berry
Thank you for confirming this. That will help in discussions when virtual machines are involved. Thanks, Berry. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Damian Gallagher > Sent: woensdag 22 februari 2012 17:13 > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIS

Re: Does cpuplugd use the cpu hot plug interface?

2012-02-23 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:22:57PM -0600, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS wrote: > Hello listers, > We are experiencing a problem where occasionally we get some uninterruptable > processes that appear to hang. > We use CPUPLUGD. > > The problem re-appeared whenever we moved workload around and caused some