We've got a curious problem here with some linux-guests on a z990 with zVM44
and SLES8, k_deflt-2.4.21-221, Gigabit Ethernet OSA. Sometimes all network
connections are going down, e.g. all ssh sessions get lost with timeout etc.
A ping doesn't reach the linux. Pings from direct network-neighbours t
> connections are going down, e.g. all ssh sessions get lost with
timeout
> etc. A ping doesn't reach the linux. Pings from direct
network-neighbours
> to the linux fail, too.
> (around 20-45 minutes), suddenly the linux answers again. There are no
> error-messages in /var/log/messages.
Sounds
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 07:30, Sebastian Korte wrote:
> I cannot reproduce
> this error, so I have to wait until it happens the next time. Any hints what
> I can do when it happens again next time?
I'm going to guess you have way too much memory specified in the Linux
guest's directory entry--maybe
> Sounds like your guest is not getting dispatched.
If it's not getting dispatched I couldn't log in and work "almost normally"
(ping, change directories, mount, df...). But I can do so!
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> How much memory do you currently have defined to the guest, and how much
> real memory is available on the system?
zVM: 8 GB + 4 GB Exp.
There are two guests with the described problem:
guest1# free -m
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 995
Sebastian Korte wrote:
We've got a curious problem here with some linux-guests on a z990 with zVM44
and SLES8, k_deflt-2.4.21-221, Gigabit Ethernet OSA. Sometimes all network
connections are going down, e.g. all ssh sessions get lost with timeout etc.
A ping doesn't reach the linux. Pings from dire
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 03:43, Sebastian Korte wrote:
> I often read this hint on the mailinglist to reduce memory, but what if the
> application (SAP) needs it? Two days ago my guest2 got stuck because mem and
> swap was 100% used and it began to kill processes to free memory. I thought
> I have to
> -Original Message-
> From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 02:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Network freezes
>
> On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 03:43, Sebastian Korte wrote:
> > I often read this hint on the mailingli
