Mark,
RU trying to say we are mostly long-winded? If so, can you please call
my wife and tell her it isn't just me?
Thanks,
Kevin
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Mark Post
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 4:55 PM
To:
On 9/26/2008 at 2:27 PM, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Mary Elwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To all that responded,
You are so so smart. I increased the storage and I was amazed. The
filesystem mounted. In 3270 it didn't tell you anything. It just sat
there.
If what I think was
On 9/27/2008 at 4:38 PM, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Gentry,
Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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If I'm supposed to issue init 1 at startup time, where do I do
that? At startup time, I get a list of kernels and I can issue a #cp
command to choose which kernel. If I have to do the init
Feels like 5.3 wants to SF, which I don't want to do (at least not
yet).
Web page says:
Central Monitoring System Load Overview (VMPRODA)
Which is different than what it says on the 5.2 systems, although the
basic configuration is the same.
Weird.
I'm guessing this might be related
And here I just thought we were enjoying a little silliness. :)
Douglas
Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 09/28/2008 04:55:28
PM:
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Re: [LINUX-390] curiosity: pronouncing sudo
Mark Post
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09/28/2008 04:58 PM
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Linux on 390 Port
#cp vi vmsg 0 1
Hi,
Remember that you have 15 seconds, by default, to enter this command.
I'm not so fast, so I prefer to record my options on PF keys, like this
model of PROFILE.EXEC:
/*/
'CLOSE RDR'
'CP PURGE RDR ALL'
'SWAPGEN B000 1000 (DIAG'
'SWAPGEN B001 500 (DIAG'
CP SET PF1 #CP VI
On 9/26/2008 at 3:56 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brad Hinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Yep, resize2fs is the replacement for ext2online, and it works with both
offline and mounted ext2/ext3 file systems.
Do the file systems have to have been created after a certain maintenance
On RHEL5.2 -- we're using mii-tools and seeing that the ethernet interface
is set to 100mbs -- the OSA is set to gigabit - and we're wondering if
something special needs to be done to set it to gigabit speeds.. Using
'ethtool=' doesn't seem to work on Linux (s390x linux)..
This is on a VSWITCH
On 9/26/2008 at 4:20 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harold
Grovesteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/spec/ELF/zSeries/lzsabi0_zSeries.html
This link, taken
from
http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-S390X/LSB-Core-S390X/
On 9/29/2008 at 12:02 PM, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Rohling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On RHEL5.2 -- we're using mii-tools and seeing that the ethernet interface
is set to 100mbs -- the OSA is set to gigabit - and we're wondering if
something special needs to be done to set it to
Any ideas on how we can verify what the speed really is? Since they are
seeing this number - there is now doubt in the air :-)
Scott Rohling
p.s. ethtool eth0 return 'No data available'
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/29/2008 at 12:02 PM, in
Decent performance tools can be used to benchmark it. Create a benchmark from
one linux
server to the other and measure it.
Scott Rohling wrote:
Any ideas on how we can verify what the speed really is? Since they are
seeing this number - there is now doubt in the air :-)
Scott Rohling
Right -- that was step 2 -- I was hoping there was some Redhat command that
could tell us (one that works on s390x distros) ...
Thanks, Barton -- we'll see what we can find out thru our own measurements..
Scott Rohling
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Barton Robinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You'd need to get onto the HMC and use OSA Advanced facilities, select
to view port parameters, and it will show you the current settings.
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any ideas on how we can verify what the speed really is? Since they are
seeing
Thanks, Bruce -- we did that and confirmed it's set to gigabit.. but there
seems to be concern from the Linux folks as mii-tools is reporting 100mbs
and ethtool is not reporting anything...
Scott Rohling
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Bruce Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You'd need to get
That's because, as Mark said, you're attached to a virtual device, and
the speed doesn't have much meaning. Any data flowing Linux to
Linux within the same vswitch could flow much faster than a gigabit,
but data flowing out the physical port is limited by the connection on
that port. The virtual
I'm confused about how much overhead seems to be involved in creating a
volume group that approaches a terabyte with ECKD devices (A mix of some
3390-27 and mostly 3390-9):
dxxxml01: ~ df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/sysvg-root
Ok - gotcha ... I guess I'm not thinking 'virtual' today ;-) ...
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Bruce Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's because, as Mark said, you're attached to a virtual device, and
the speed doesn't have much meaning. Any data flowing Linux to
Linux within the
We actually opened an issue with IBM over this. Here's what I got back:
Action Taken...: The ethtool utility is not supported with all device
drivers as noted in the man page. It's very typical that for an
gigabit NIC (especially a fiber connection) will not have a valid
On 9/29/2008 at 12:49 PM, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Rohling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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We're going from 911G for the logical volume to 897G displayed in 'df' to
only 870G being available in the filesystem.. That's 41G of 'overhead'.
Am I just naive about how much space it
We have some very large LVM2 filesystems, and have only seen one issue.
As you add PV's to a VG, the time it takes for the utilities (pvscan,
pvs, etc.) to run increases exponentially with the number of volumes.
This is because LVM2 puts metadata on every volume by default, and the
utilities
Thanks! That's very helpful to show this customer... appreciate you
passing that on!
Scott Rohling
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Hall, Ken (GTS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We actually opened an issue with IBM over this. Here's what I got back:
Action Taken...: The ethtool utility is
On 9/29/2008 at 12:39 PM, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Rohling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, Bruce -- we did that and confirmed it's set to gigabit.. but there
seems to be concern from the Linux folks as mii-tools is reporting 100mbs
and ethtool is not reporting anything...
I
Thanks, Bruce -- we did that and confirmed it's set to gigabit.. but
there
seems to be concern from the Linux folks as mii-tools is reporting
100mbs
and ethtool is not reporting anything...
I'd actually argue that ethtool is right -- there really isn't any valid
number TO report. Reporting
Thanks, Mark -- I forgot all about -m 0 when doing the mkfs.ext3 -- and
using tune2fs -m0 got us back to 897G!
Scott Rohling
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/29/2008 at 12:49 PM, in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott
Rohling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to all who responded.
I ended up using the #cp vi vmsg 0 1 method.
Prior to deleting /var, I created the new disk space first. I updated
the .conf file, ran mkinitrd and zipl. Rebooted linux. When it came up,
the new dasd was available so I partitioned it and formatted it. I made
a
An early draft of the architecture and porting guide for OpenSolaris for
Z is available from distribution.sinenomine.net. It covers the release
95 build. This is a draft, so there will be a few changes yet, but
comments and corrections are always welcome.
File is at
They're just trying to confirm what they have.. and using the Linux tools
they normally use to do so. I've since explained that a virtual NIC isn't
going to show them the physical characteristics of the 'real' NIC and have
explained that we've verified the OSA is set to gigabit speed.
I guess
This is pretty much the same situation we had. The SA's are used to the
tools they know, so when they don't behave as expected on z, they get
nervous.
I've had questions about grub, netdump, EMC Powerpath, and Veritas VxVM.
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL
We have a bunch of Oracle databases running on SLES 10 in one of our z/9
partitions. We are only getting started with this, so we don't much (i.e.
nothing) about tuning Oracle to be a polite guest in this environment and
our DBA is just as new to it. He is getting advice from a vendor, but
I
I would tend to agree that IT professionals are given to silliness.
After all, we have a penchant for giving cartoon mascots to software
projects for no discernible reason other than our own amusement.
Erik Johnson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Douglas Wooster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And
no don't pump up virtual machine memory or CP paging to fix this long term.
Short term do what you have to of course!
But in my experience Oracle interestingly enough is one of the best behaved
applications in a linux virtual machine.
A lot of this depends on the size of the database in the
If you're just getting started, which means you don't have a lot of data, or
much production
I first scale back Oracle's memory.
Under OEM:
Administration:
Memory Parmeters:
Change SGA to 200 MB
Change PGA to 16 MB
Define your virtual storage for the Linux machine to 600 MB and reboot.
Now
Martha,
Look at the swapinnes sysctl parameter. It reduces swap priority on
Linux.
http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000
Good luck.
Fernando Gieseler
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Mark Post wrote:
On 9/26/2008 at 3:56 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brad Hinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-snip-
Yep, resize2fs is the replacement for ext2online, and it works with both
offline and mounted ext2/ext3 file systems.
Do the file systems have to have been created after a
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