Re: STOP SYSTEM VIRTUAL MACHINES EXPIRING?

2008-11-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Andy Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm very grateful for the replies I have gotten on this subject, but they are not addressing the main issue To rephrase it: If I do NOT do anything to stop the passwords of these users expiring (or equivalent

Re: CMMA Support for Redhat

2008-11-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:05 PM, David Kreuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do #CP TRACE ESSA RUN and see what happens! I'm not sure you will see anything... The ESSA is done under SIE and I'm not convinced that the trace will change that... If you have not disabled it on z/VM, then Q MEMASSIST

Re: NFS Lockd daemon consuming large amounts of CPU

2008-11-13 Thread Rob van der Heij
since it is of little interest for the folks on the list. -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to virtualize Windows under SLES Linux on zSeries - PJBR

2008-11-11 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good JIT engine emulation these days is a lot lot better than that. You do need a lot of memory to make that work well. Some popular modern techniques around JIT do not work very well in a shared environment, as we found with

Re: Linux VM intermittently goes non-responsive

2008-11-04 Thread Rob van der Heij
it towards the edge for a long time without any damage. But once you cross the line, you spill all the coffee. Not just the portion that was sticking out over the edge of the table. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: OpenSolaris for System z IPL

2008-11-04 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Livio Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: q cplevel z/VM Version 5 Release 3.0, service level 0701 (64-bit) Generated at 05/29/07 23:21:12 BDT IPL at 04/25/08 12:58:27 BDT Ready; T=0.01/0.01 18:51:30 The RSU level is not uptodate, do you believe that this can be

Re: Linux VM intermittently goes non-responsive

2008-11-03 Thread Rob van der Heij
very non-responsive. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390

Re: Linux VM intermittently goes non-responsive

2008-10-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I should have let them stare at the dumps for a few more weeks ;) When you had your fun with it, you might want to put it as CP commands in the directory entry of AUTOLOG1 for example.

Re: Crytographic processors

2008-10-23 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Configured as accelerators. No figures. There isn't a velocity report on them (no monitor data perhaps?). But the comments from the applications folks was pretty close to non-SSL. Benchmarking it is not trivial

Re: z10 BC is Here

2008-10-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Malcolm Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it's not an MCM (Multi Chip Module) in the z10 BC, it's six SCMs (Single Chip Modules): 4 separate SCMs for the 4 separate Enterprise Quad Core chips (3 active in each) and 2 other SCMs for the SC (System

Re: SLES10 in an LPAR and kernel.hz_timer

2008-10-20 Thread Rob van der Heij
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Re: Lx86

2008-10-18 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Richard Gasiorowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must be missing something. My original question was does IBM have an LX86 product for zLinux. The answer is no. So are you other vendors saying you have something that works or not. I am not talking windows

Re: Gigabit interface on Linux?

2008-09-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
at least make the trade-off and see whether the extra 20% is worth the cycles. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:26 AM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may have missed something. Is there no way that a virtual machine cannot have use of a clock, corrected for drift, that reflects the correct time of day, either now or in the future? A TOD clock that does _not_

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-11 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While this discussion has been going on, I've been wondering if hwclock --hctosys might not be the lowest impact method available. The problem being that hwclock currently isn't included in the util-linux RPM for SLES,

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
the clock during boot and run ntpd -q via cron once a day (but not all at the same time since that makes things worse). Fortunately all System z clocks that I have seen run a bit too slow, so once the clock is right, the scheduled ntpd -q will not step it back. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Fargusson.Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you get z/VM to coordinate with the rest of the world? We also played with VTOD support. When you make one virtual machine pick up the proper time after IPL, the other virtual machines can pick up that first

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
and adjust the skew in the kernel. Normally this is not a serious factor, and will not cause a lot of wake-up. But because init scripts are written for a Linux PC with different TOD architecture, ntpd gets confused and assumes incorrectly that there is a large drift that must be corrected. Rob -- Rob van

Re: Root filesystem error switches to ReadOnly

2008-08-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
I expect the problem is using 'dd' for the copying may not get the magic signatures that makes the disk a CDL format, so the driver ends up seeing it as LDL and gets things misaligned. But you should be able to notice that when the new system is booting. Have you considered using DDR or such to

Re: Root filesystem

2008-08-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Fargusson.Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There have been several times when people have posted to this list asking for help recovering when a LVM containing the root filesystem has gone bad. It may be that when using VM you have more of a chance of messing

Re: Root filesystem

2008-08-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Fargusson.Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not the case the /boot is the issue. As soon as the kernel starts it mounts the root. If mounting the root fails then the kernel gives up, and you have to recover the root filesystem. The motivation to split

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-13 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:44 PM, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our problem with this scenario comes from cloning and LVM: If the penguin is a clone, its LVM volume groups are likely to have the same names as the rescue penguin, in which case, you likely won't get them mounted properly.

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-13 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:55 PM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiousity, why a special machine? Wouldn't it be possible for every Linux guest account to have a RR link to the required rescue volume(s)? Every Linux guest would LINK those at some standard, HIGH address.

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-13 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:50 PM, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Current standard here is to have /boot as a physical volume, root, var, tmp and some swap (yes, we're moving to v-disk swap) in LVM vg_system on one 3390 mod 9 and /home and /opt in LVM vg_local on a second 3390 mod 9. There are

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-13 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:41 PM, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other bad thing about avoiding LVM is that you are then limited by the size of your largest physical disk. If all you have are 3390 mod 27's, then you avoid your users when they need more than 22gig in a filesystem. We have

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:18 PM, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The linemode console is much more versatile, and the only time you'll actually sit at it is when you're in trouble; at any other time, you'll just walk away from it and use a ssh or telnet (not advised) connection. Learn a bit

Re: IND$FILE? (was: RE: 3270 console confusion)

2008-08-09 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 7:54 PM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regardless of the license on x3270, you can look at the code to reverse engineer / document the protocol. If you write your code from the ground up, then you can license it however you want. It's only if you borrow code

Re: swap to DCSS documentation/cookbook?

2008-08-09 Thread Rob van der Heij
to it, and understand whether the server is too large or too small. You lose some of that when using DCSS. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Changing volser labels

2008-08-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dasd(eckd): 0.0.0201: 3390/0A(CU:3990/01) Cyl:3338 Head:15 Sec:224 The 3338 cylinders suggests that you have (wisely) given the Linux guest a mini disk starting at cylinder 1, so cylinder 0 is for CP to do its

Re: Antivirus software on zLinux

2008-08-04 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 2:53 PM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you think needs the protection of AV software? (I'm not having a shot at you, your answer goes to define the kind of information you need: my choice of motor vehicle is a little unusual, and it's probably not

Re: Boot partition mirror-raid possible?

2008-07-17 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Peter 1 Oberparleiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are technical requirements(*) that need to be met by a lv setup to be supported without completely redoing the current disk IPL mechanism used for Linux on System z. The aim of any zipl enhancement into that

Re: Boot partition mirror-raid possible?

2008-07-16 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I try to mount the actual partitions under boot sequentially? I am new to RAID and am not sure how to proceed. If you want to make another disk bootable you must specify the right directory (and that must be on the

Re: Boot partition mirror-raid possible?

2008-07-16 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the problem is that my target device is /dev/md1 which is not a real disk, it's a pseudo-device manufactured by the mdadm command from two real partitions. That sure is a problem. But since you don't write to the

Re: Boot partition mirror-raid possible?

2008-07-16 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's what I am beginning to think. :( I was hoping someone on the list has tried this and has a definitive answer. Yes, zipl uses specific ioctl() calls of the eckd driver to write the IPL record etc. -Rob

Re: Reiser

2008-07-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're missing our point, Erik. Making a change, whether Good or Ill, eliminates the support that our employers have PAID FOR. That means no support for the rest of the kernel that remained UNchanged. Not only the kernel

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for your needs. There's a whole community out there that can pick up the slack. That's the point. Not whether anybody should be hastily changing the format of enterprise file systems. Most certainly. But just the

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob van der Heij wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (and I believe that is one of the reasons Red Hat is less eager to take s390 patches from IBM under the counter). What

Re: Reiser

2008-07-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just think it is unfair to imply that IBM is doing anything under the counter. If you watch the LKML you will frequently see contributions from IBM developers. I did not mean that unfair and should have searched for

Re: Reiser

2008-07-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:58 AM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I generally agree with those sentiments, but I would also consider vendor support now and in the future. I consider ReiserFS still a bit niche development. If it is not carried by the masses, some of the open source

Re: IP resolution tries IPV6 when only IPV4 is available

2008-06-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
. It may be that the YaST installer tempted you into that. I see that more as a convenience to end-users, and expect that it rarely plays a role in servers. Most things in servers are done through FQN or just the host name in one single domain. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software http

Re: Moving zLinux guest from G6 to z9

2008-06-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
to double check the directory entry. When you use dedicated volumes, it may be the volume was missed in the restore (or shifted by 1 cylinder). Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX

Re: zVM 3.1 at 100% CPU after z9 upgrade

2008-06-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
user. If not, then we'd be happy to look at raw data from the z/VM 3.1 guest if you can capture that (we can talk off-line to discuss how to transfer the data). Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software GmbH http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

2008-06-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Malcolm Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote writetrack and readtrack kernel modules for Linux 5 years ago which implement ioctls to do that along with simplistic userland utilities and they worked OK for me to transfer various VM and z/OS disks as images

Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

2008-06-18 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Use PIPEDDR to write to a file and FTP this file to your Linux server I'm tempted to think that using temporary files to hold a copy of the raw tracks is a royal PITA (though if you squish or even compress the tracks, it

Re: Measuring CPU performance? Which is right?

2008-06-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
is probably significant. With the later kernel releases that use the virtual cpu accounting (recognized by the reporting of steal percentage) the basis is virtual time rather than total time. So anything done by CP on behalf of this Linux virtual machine is reported by Linux as unused. Rob -- Rob van

Re: Historical data for performance of Linux

2008-06-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
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Re: Historical data for performance of Linux

2008-05-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:10 PM, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Key phrases: if asked to do so and data it collects. GIGO. I believe you have not even tried... Performance Toolkit only maintains history information for a limited set of system-wide metrics. That's all. And yes, if you can

Re: Ext3 (Journaling Filesystems) and BARRIERS = Filesystem Integrity

2008-05-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 5/27/08, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend with EMC who is very excited about the new SSD subsystems which are beginning to appear. They sound very nice. Being green and all. The challenge is lifetime. You can't rewrite flash that often and the various vendors

Re: SSL CERTIFICATE

2008-05-23 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:20 AM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I created a self-signed certificate for example.com, it would not be to provide my identity to the public at large, but for use within a small group. Not everyone needs _that_ level of security. Sure, context. If

[OT] Re: SSL CERTIFICATE

2008-05-23 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:24 PM, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect its success depends on the near universal penetration of mobile phones in Finland. Right. When you visit Finland for vacation, make sure to go to the restrooms before you leave home.

Re: SSL CERTIFICATE

2008-05-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:36 AM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huegel, Thomas wrote: Well, yes I can (did) make a SELF-SIGNED certificate and it works fine. But my auditor doesn't like it. Why? Isn't it like when the cops pull you over and you show them a hand-written piece of

Re: Ruby on Rails

2008-05-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
I've suggested before that the resource efficiency of applications is reverse proportional with the percentage of people able to program on the platform... It appears I can use this table ... ;-) Rob -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: Anyone who knows this problem? - vmkit08c

2008-05-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can get the Rexx alternate exec processor from the VM downloads site at vm.ibm.com. It's free. It's basically a module that is enough like the compiled Rexx runtime that you can run compiled rexx programs. Not

Re: VM Accounting data in linux

2008-05-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
for accounting purposes as well. -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software GmbH http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390

Re: VM Accounting data in linux

2008-05-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It you would do charge back you could have budget to buy stuff ;-) I have accounting cards and rexx and pipelines and wanted to see if there were any use of NEW tools in LINUX for processing this data. Apparently no one has

Re: Query CPU usage.

2008-05-13 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Fargusson.Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vmlink esamon 198 DMSVML2067E Unknown disk nickname (ESAMON) Try VMLINK .dir ESAMON.D198 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Rescue Kernel

2008-05-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Lee Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything in the rescue kernel that is NOT in the regular kernel? (Any reason to use the rescue kernel as opposed to just linking to the penguin with a problem from on that is happy?) I have always avoided the

Re: questions regarding /proc/buddyinfo

2008-04-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
2GB because some things in live need to happen under the Bar (like channel programs). So when all is under the Bar (vmsize 2G) you just have one zone. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software GmbH http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: heap-stack-gap in SLES10

2008-04-23 Thread Rob van der Heij
Could it be you're following x86 tuning guidelines rather than Linux on z/VM ? If so, then getting an error because vm.heap-stack-gap does not exist is the least of your problems. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software GmbH http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: A question about efforts to replace z/VM CMS users with Linux VMs...

2008-04-17 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Grasso, M. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, my management would like to see money saving arguments before allowing an investigation. That's going to be a tough one. CMS is highly efficient for the typical systems management tasks that people do with

Re: What distribution and why?

2008-04-16 Thread Rob van der Heij
n Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Hubert Kleinmanns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for the explanation of the phrase I used. You are right, I meant Can you be more specific about the issue you found with MQ and SUSE? and was slightly surprised about the answers. :-) Such things can be

Re: recover root password

2008-04-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:34 AM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Until the vendors change their approach, administrators are going to be working that way. But isn't that why folks bother to hang out on mailing lists and learn how to improve their way of working? I consider the

Re: recover root password

2008-04-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
convenient IMHO is to have another running Linux server reach out to the disks of the dead server and mount them. That way you have all the tools you need to fix things (though it may be that current LVM-tools have a strong one-system mindset). Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software GmbH http

Re: recover root password

2008-04-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:56 PM, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RedHat and SuSE expect administrators to use the root account because It's always been done that way. But, when you have more than one administrator, and especially if you have more than a hand-full, like six to fifteen, then

Re: What distribution and why?

2008-04-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Evans, Kevin R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We don't have a problem...I was only replying to an inquiry from Robert Nix where he asked what distro people used and why. What I was saying was some backup to why we use RHEL. We see that Red Hat is more strict than

Re: (Apr 2 Webcast) Problem Determination with Linux on System z

2008-04-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will not be viewing this because I use Linux on my PC and Windows is required, ironic huh? But then you don't need this anymore. Only the users of that other operating system have problems to solve ;-) Rob

Re: IPL Centos s390x dvd in RESCUE mode?

2008-03-31 Thread Rob van der Heij
their own life boats. With Linux on z/VM you have a lot of material to build such a (remotely operated) life boat. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software GmbH http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: curiousity question: Linux usage: many or few

2008-03-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
systems) the scheme gets very neat. It also saves you on disk resources and backup requirements. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software GmbH http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: curiousity question: Linux usage: many or few

2008-03-26 Thread Rob van der Heij
though there is a cost involved in extra virtual machines and communication overhead, the advantages normally make up for that. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software GmbH http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: curiousity question: Linux usage: many or few

2008-03-26 Thread Rob van der Heij
applicable servers for everyone who needed it. I found it a very interesting approach to push that ratio. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software GmbH http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Question on measuring CPU Usage in Linux

2008-03-25 Thread Rob van der Heij
Linux on z/VM configuration. That's why we claim you need to see both sides of the equation. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software GmbH http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: how can I mount /tmp as a tmpfs in SLES9?

2008-03-18 Thread Rob van der Heij
requirements for disk space. Or you might be able to mount the data via NFS and maybe avoid the duplication of data. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software GmbH http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: how can I mount /tmp as a tmpfs in SLES9?

2008-03-18 Thread Rob van der Heij
. I'd not share /tmp with other systems. I did not mean to suggest you could share /tmp with others. But if you use /tmp to hold a copy of a package that you FTP into each server, they may be more attractive options. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software GmbH http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: SIGQUIT under z/VM

2008-03-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
) in the command line and use PF2 instead of Enter. Without the SUBSTITU you could set a PF-key to do ^c entirely. Or you could leave out the IMM and type PF2 c Enter. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software GmbH http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: CMM questions

2008-03-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
it (since you will make CP emulate it, which increases your CPU usage). Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Document indexing on zLinux

2008-03-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
need things indexed like that. Running something as background process to maintain such indexes is likely to be a bad thing for scalability. I also switched off the things that build a cache for the find command. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: Document indexing on zLinux

2008-03-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
interface will get you pretty close to what you're looking for. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Syslog from z/VM CMS... And on being frustrated...

2008-03-07 Thread Rob van der Heij
to the same Linux server? I recall the default setup is pretty stubborn in doing a firewall for no good reason... Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: Syslog from z/VM CMS... And on being frustrated...

2008-03-07 Thread Rob van der Heij
/ccwgroup/devices/0.0./fake_ll ) Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO

Re: hipersocket address versus regular address

2008-03-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
From the knitpicking gallery: rather than best practice I would call it common practice I see some similarity with a recent discussion about allocation of cylinder 0 as page. We know that CP does not mind and there should be no issue. Still, for several good reasons people tend to avoid doing

Re: Where is cmma setting?

2008-02-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
level until we know more. Rob PS It would also be interesting to hear which configurations were compared in the measurements that IBM published. If CMMA was disabled with the evil kernel option, then we may be comparing different things. -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http

Re: Where is cmma setting?

2008-02-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no idea what's possible with an undocumented instruction ;-) If nothing else, we can get a CP PTF to only enable it on the 2nd ESSA instruction... Ah no... we can fix that. If you like to patch your kernel

Re: Where is cmma setting?

2008-02-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
looked up the macro, and better first find a source to apply the patch to before I dare to comment on the longer code path and where that would occur. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: Where is cmma setting?

2008-02-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
often see CP take pages that are paged out already, which is not good. If the cmma stuff does not change the z/VM demand scan then I think it's a missed opportunity. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: Where is cmma setting?

2008-02-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
the feature, installations could just disable it on system level rather than depend on what the virtual machine decides. Unless it is the code in Linux SP1 that requires we don't use it... Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: Betr.: Re: Where is cmma setting?

2008-02-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
by default. I would want to know why, and under what circumstances it is appropriate to override that default and use it... Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: OpenSolaris on System Z live at SHARE in Orlando

2008-02-20 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Feb 20, 2008 10:20 AM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not betting on it. It hasn't happened so far, and it's been about 7 or 8 years. So how many different names did we have in 8 years.. and I would not even be surprised if IBM now would start to use a product name that we already

Re: rpmbuild -ba bacula.spec - HELP

2008-02-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Feb 11, 2008 2:31 PM, Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to rpmbuild Bacula under SLES 10 SP1, I'm getting this error what does it mean, Any ideas Bruce, I believe you asked the same question 8 days ago, and several people responded with suggestions to explain it and on how to fix

Re: Linux on the new Airbus A380...

2008-02-17 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Feb 17, 2008 4:25 PM, Edmund R. MacKenty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't catch which distro it was, but they probably replaced all the init scripts with custom work anyway. And slashdot had a link that Singapore Airlines offers a personal Red Hat Linux desktop in every seat with USB plug.

Re: Running Oracle on GT 2 IFLs

2008-02-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
earlier this week about the same subject. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: Copying 3390-9 to 3390-3 Linux LVM under z/VM.

2008-02-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Jose Raul Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that there's the same problem everywhere ? Life would be much easier and problems could be solved faster and better with just some more DASD but it seems like the management guys must create the dasd

Re: Running Oracle on GT 2 IFLs

2008-02-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
lab environment with only one virtual machine and an infinite number of real IFLs installed. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: s390-unknown-linux-gnu --- rpmbuild of Bacula.

2008-02-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Feb 12, 2008 5:51 PM, Brad Hinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You caught me. I agree, it is much better to patch it correctly. But at ~2500 lines, the bacula spec file is a beast to edit, and I thought that would scare off any newcomers to rpmbuild. :) And rpm-wise, would a separate

Re: Betr.: SAP Application Servers

2008-02-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
requirements. Takes measurements and active tuning. That's the techniques I used to run 100 Linux servers with apache on a P/390 with 128M memory (and find CPU was more limiting than memory). Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: zLinux under zVM or Standalone

2008-02-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
in a virtual machine for testing, training and development purposes. Being able to run more z/OS images is a big plus in such cases. The distinction between production and development depends a lot on your perspective and expectations. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http

Re: zLinux under zVM or Standalone

2008-02-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Feb 1, 2008 2:52 PM, Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gee, I really want to comment, can I, dare I ? In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister -Rob ;-) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: zLinux under zVM performance

2008-02-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
performance is not available via command, but is in the data stream fed to a performance monitor. And if you don't think you have the skills to evaluate the reports yourself, you might want one where tuning assistance is included with the support for the product. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity

Re: zLinux under zVM or Standalone

2008-02-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Feb 1, 2008 11:36 PM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob van der Heij wrote: On Feb 1, 2008 2:52 PM, Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gee, I really want to comment, can I, dare I ? In der Beschr�nkung zeigt sich erst der Meister My eyes got parity errors, they can't

Re: Linux under Z/Series

2008-01-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Jan 30, 2008 12:28 AM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can understand that some (many) value certification, but does everyone require it? I believe that when running commercial middleware on a distribution that is not certified, it means that the vendor will not provide support

Re: z/VM Version 5.1 to z/VM Version 5.3 migration?

2008-01-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Jan 30, 2008 3:50 PM, Jose Raul Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't know if that was due to good luck or the result of our prayers... ;-) That sounds like a pray requirement that IBM should put in the PSP bucket :-) --

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