Re: MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches

2012-05-04 Thread John Summerfield
Mark Post wrote: On 5/4/2012 at 03:17 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: Yes, my experience too is that build requirements in the SLES packages are often incomplete. It probably works for SUSE because they probably build in a "almost everything" type of system. Not really. The automated build servi

Re: MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches

2012-05-04 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 5/4/2012 at 03:17 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > Yes, my experience too is that build requirements in the SLES packages are > often incomplete. It probably works for SUSE because they probably build in > a "almost everything" type of system. Not really. The automated build service uses a

Re: MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches

2012-05-04 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Srivastava, Sagar wrote: > Finally I was able to compile it- it's just that ncurses-devel was needed > before it can be compiled. I did not find anything on it documented anyware > in requirements - on their site/package/readme etc. > > Thank you for reminding me w

Re: MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches

2012-05-03 Thread Srivastava, Sagar
Finally I was able to compile it- it's just that ncurses-devel was needed before it can be compiled. I did not find anything on it documented anyware in requirements - on their site/package/readme etc. Sagar On 05/03/12 12:48, Srivastava, Sagar wrote: > > Thanks to Brent and Barton for your r

Re: MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches

2012-05-03 Thread Marcy Cortes
riginal Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Srivastava, Sagar Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 9:48 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches Thanks to Brent and Barton for your reply, I was no

Re: MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches

2012-05-03 Thread Shane G
It should be noted "top" accepts a parm to adjust the report frequency - all the way down to fractions of a second. *All* sampling based monitors have their weaknesses - especially those that run in userspace. However, for those of us that developed our performance tuning/debugging skills in a trad

Re: MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches

2012-05-03 Thread van Sleeuwen, Berry
U > Subject: Re: MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches > > > Thanks to Brent and Barton for your reply, I was not successful in compiling > PowerTOP in SLES11 (s390), probably sources need some tweaking since it is > Intel platform centric. If anyone has compiled it successfully, I w

Re: MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches

2012-05-03 Thread John Summerfield
On 05/03/12 12:48, Srivastava, Sagar wrote: Thanks to Brent and Barton for your reply, I was not successful in compiling PowerTOP in SLES11 (s390), probably sources need some tweaking since it is Intel platform centric. If anyone has compiled it successfully, I will be glad to know. See whethe

Re: MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches

2012-05-03 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Srivastava, Sagar wrote: > > I wanted the group to know my solution just in case someone else > encounters the same problem. Thanks for going through my long posting. > > Good news, and thank you for sharing the outcome with us. It probably would have been caught by

Re: MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches

2012-05-03 Thread Srivastava, Sagar
solution just in case someone else encounters the same problem. Thanks for going through my long posting. Sagar -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Brent Kincer Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 3:08 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches

2012-04-27 Thread Barton Robinson
If you investigate the ESALNXP report provided by ZVPS, you will see a cron job with your latest "patches", and not before that. One just needs good tools Srivastava, Sagar wrote: We implemented latest patches on our SLES11 SP1 systems recently Now all the zLINUX guest are using almo

Re: MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches

2012-04-27 Thread Brent Kincer
Have you tried using powertop to investigate? Sure the tool was intended on tracking power consumption, but it's very useful for seeing what is waking up your guests. Just a thought... On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Srivastava, Sagar wrote: > > > > > We implemented latest patches on our SLES11

MIPS increase after SLES11 SP1 patches

2012-04-27 Thread Srivastava, Sagar
We implemented latest patches on our SLES11 SP1 systems recently Now all the zLINUX guest are using almost 8 - 10 IFL mips extra per Guest - that is increasing our load on the z/VM LPARs by 300 mips . Unfortunately this is not so visible from the guest level and hence difficult to find t