Hi Mark,

Well remembered ...
Good approach to search.
I´ll go through this way ..
Thank you, and I will tell you what comes out.

HM

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De: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] Em nome de Mark Post
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 23 de maio de 2013 19:51
Para: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Assunto: Re: Unexpected stop

>>> On 5/23/2013 at 06:26 PM, Helio Mario Neves Pimentel de Oliveira
<h...@engepel.com.br> wrote: 
> Hi listers,
> 
> Does anybody have an idea/suggestion/solution to what I describe below?
> 
> IBM Z10 LPAR running SUSE SLES 10 SP4
> 
> Other day some external applications couldn*t connect to the data 
> base, neither to the SMB, neither do SSH (console) running on it.
> All appls stayed hanging for about 20 minutes.
> All processing was resumed without further notice AND WITHOUT ANY 
> CORRECTIVE ACTION.

I've seen cases where the size of the SGA and PGA, combined with the number
of process mmapping it and remote network connections to the database, just
about exhausted all the available "physical" memory defined for the system.
In those cases, the kernel went into a mode where it was trying to find
pages to page out, but almost everything was marked non-pageable, so it
couldn't.  After a while, connections would time out, processes would die,
freeing up some memory, and the kernel would start to be able to do some
paging and things would recover.

Because of the nature of the circumstances, no advance warning was possible
because no ramp up in paging was happening prior to the critical point where
everything just ground to a halt.  You might want to go through the exercise
of adding up all the things using memory that will cause it to not be paged
out and see if you're too close to the amount of memory available to the
system.


Mark Post

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