Am 10.07.2015 um 13:19 schrieb Christian Borntraeger: > Anothing thing: 1M is quite large (the larges contiguous memory that Linux > wants > to allocate as slab). So try to not use that unless you need it. If you want > to > know how much memory is needed, then vmcp gives you back the result of the > diagnose: > > # vmcp q dasd all > [...] > Error: output (74764 bytes) was truncated, try --buffer to increase size
For those who want to trigger some action in that case: The output from CP goes to stdout and the error message to stderr. The return value of vmcp is 2 instead of 0 in that case. So something if return == 2 then parse stderr and retry could work out. Christian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/