Re: Performance effect of multiple virtual processors

2013-02-15 Thread Mark Post
No, it won't wait.  z/VM will dispatch the guest on a single logical processor if necessary. Keith Gooding wrote:Hi all,   Suppose I have a linux zVM guest with n virtual IFLs running in a z/VM LPAR which has n dedicated IFLs. If the guest is dormant and becomes eligible to run again ( eg I/O c

Re: Allocating DASD to new users.

2013-02-15 Thread Cameron Seay
They got power for the 8300, but I haven't been able to get to it yet. Too much to do at one time. We don't need that much space for each Linux guest- about 18G, but since we are not using it for anything else right now no problem, The 8300 will be up soon I hope. CS On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:4

Performance effect of multiple virtual processors

2013-02-15 Thread Keith Gooding
Hi all,   Suppose I have a linux zVM guest with n virtual IFLs running in a z/VM LPAR which has n dedicated IFLs. If the guest is dormant and becomes eligible to run again ( eg I/O completes) does the zVM scheduler wait for all n  real IFLs to be free before dispatching it ?. I thought I saw  so

Re: Allocating DASD to new users.

2013-02-15 Thread Mike Myers
Cameron: Correction. Make that 485 3390-9 volumes. Mike On 02/14/2013 10:06 PM, Cameron Seay wrote: I am trying to copy either of these guests and replicate them for a class I am teaching: USER LINUX001 LINUX001 1G 4G G INCLUDE LNXDFLT CPU 00 CPU 01 NICDEF F000 TYPE QDIO DEV 3 LAN SYSTEM VSWI

Re: Allocating DASD to new users.

2013-02-15 Thread Mike Myers
Cameron: As Tomas suggested, you will be assigning complete disks to each user, so the easiest approach (at least for the 700 and 701 addresses) is to find unassigned disks and then format them and assign them to each user. Check with Rich or some other LINUX type as to the kind of formatting nee