Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-02 Thread Marcy Cortes
That came out wrong. the policy is still broken I meant, we've gone against the policy. It's harder to win the policy battle that to just do it and move on. Believe me, I have enough other things to do. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not

Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-03 Thread Marcy Cortes
Thank you Ed and Mark for the technical info and education. Look for a request. Thanks Alan for the well written, as usual, perspective. I am on the review committee for next time around (not becaues of this but another different from Intel feature :) And I have had to document all those VM

Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-03 Thread Marcy Cortes
Jack wrote: I'm more disturbed that this kind of snipe hunt, the deleting of well-known no-login system accounts that date back in Unix history to the 1980's, is viewed by the Linux 390 community as a useful or rational activity that can be mandated by management without your laughing in

Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-03 Thread Marcy Cortes
The questioner didn't know to look in the control files for the numerical limits on uid's. Are you talking about me? I do too know how to do that. :-P Let's not get carried away with assumptions here. Marcy -- For LINUX-390

Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-03 Thread Marcy Cortes
Jack wrote: Well, you're a very dutiful employee and they're lucky to have you. You still should kick 'em in the butt once in a while so they don't start to think that the reason you obey them is that they're smarter than the average fifth grader! Well, I do that when it is worth it. A

IBM Solutions Edition for Enterprise Linux

2009-11-16 Thread Marcy Cortes
Cross posted to linux-390 and ibmvm: I kind of waited to see if anyone from IBM would even mention this here. It came out last week. Prices have come down... a lot... http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/solutions/editions/linux.html Those of you thinking of consolidating or even adding more

Re: adding DASD on SUSE

2009-11-20 Thread Marcy Cortes
Check in /etc/sysconfig/hardware and look for files for each disk called something like hwcfg-dasd-bus-ccw-0.0. marcy Tore, lsdasd shows disks that are online. My question is how ot find which disks were supposed to be online, in other words, which disks were configured by

Re: move-to-sles10-sp3-script.sh problem

2009-12-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
Did you do a rug sa on it before the rug sub ? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any

Re: move-to-sles10-sp3-script.sh problem

2009-12-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
: /usr/lib/suseRegister/bin/zypp_sa http://692950b54d4641608553fd4983cd4c09:a1da8976be5b4560b17b76a4ce5c2...@slesupdate.baldor.c om//repo/$RCE/SLES10-SP3-Online/sles-10-s390x SLES10-SP3-Online Does this count? Ron Marcy Cortes wrote: Did you do a rug sa on it before the rug sub ? Marcy

Re: move-to-sles10-sp3-script.sh problem

2009-12-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
://SLESUPdate.baldor.com/ Yes| SLES10-SP2-Pool | http://SLESUPdate.baldor.com/ Ron Marcy Cortes wrote: Well, that should do it. What does rug sl Show you about that service? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you

Re: zfcp wwpn change on DR site

2009-12-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
Well, you can do something like record something from /proc/sysinfo about the loc into a file. And if loc changed, then rename the /etc/zfcp.conf files and if it did not change, then don't rename. Our just always copy in the /etc/zfcp.conf.dr files if the location is DR. Do this in your own

Re: LUN numbers for DS8000

2009-12-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
Me too! Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this

Re: HiperSocket Advice

2009-12-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
We're supposed to have every IP address in our DNS. And to get in to DNS, you go through security planning. Your company may have a different policy. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the

Re: SLES 10 SP2 upgrade to SLES 10 SP3 error

2010-01-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
Dale, I always use the incantaion found here http://www.linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/movefs.html Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any

Re: sles11 - adding dasd yast problem

2010-01-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
Sue, I think you'll need to use dasd_configure on sles 11. I'm not quite that far yet, but that's what I remember and since no one else has answered yet... :) Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive

Re: LUN numbers for DS8000

2010-01-07 Thread Marcy Cortes
. Regards, Eric Eric Farman z/VM I/O Development IBM Endicott, NY From: Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 12/15/2009 12:53 PM Subject: Re: LUN numbers for DS8000 Me too! Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information

Re: SPOOL area increase in continuesly.(z/VM 5.4)

2010-01-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
If the dump space gets abnormally large you may have run into what we did. We needed both VM64477 and VM64527. IBM can confirm if you take a snapdump and open a PMR. Beware the snapdump can take a very long time if you do have this issue. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or

Re: Max # 3390s

2010-01-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
First, give up on mod 9's and do 54's for that stuff :) Our biggest is about 5TB. It's about 110 mod 54's. It's divided into 6 file systems on 6 different volume groups. (Not a DB, but just files). We did adjust the boot time interval of fsck so that all 6 don't get fsck'd on the same

Re: Max # 3390s

2010-01-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
Wow. That's way too many :) Course 64K should be enough for anybody. I hope we have bigger disk sizes before we need 250,000. I'd think you'd have a 64K limit under z/VM. That's still too many :) Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the

Re: Max # 3390s

2010-01-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
Remember saying that exact phrase about memory? ;) Yeah, that's why I said it, but I forgot the winky smiley thing. ;) ;) Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use,

Re: weird problem with pam_tally in SLES10SP2

2010-01-29 Thread Marcy Cortes
My notes show that I needed auth required pam_tally.so onerr=fail no_magic_root account required pam_tally.so deny=3 reset no_magic_root But that was on sles8. Haven't tried it on later since we're using different authentication now. I would expect it would still work. I do

Re: Advice for perf testing dasd

2010-02-05 Thread Marcy Cortes
Hello Patrick, I don't have a lot of Oracle DB experience, but our acquisition had it up with a prod app. They found Oracle behaved much better with 2 vcpus. It wasn't even using 1/3 of a single z9 IFL at peak, but with 2 vcpus it flew compared to 1. The theory was that Oracle must have

Re: Suse after.local

2010-02-08 Thread Marcy Cortes
And stuff you want to turn off/on can be put into /etc/init.d/boot.local Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on

Re: yast procedure for going from SLE-10-s390x-SP2 to SLE-10-s390x-SP3

2010-03-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
http://forums.novell.com/tags/yup%20sp3%20sles10%20s390x.html I think you need a new yup. Marcy Cortes Team Lead, Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM and z/Linux Enterprise Hosting Services, Mainframe/Midrange Services MAC A0187-050 201 3rd St. San Francisco, CA 94103 w. (415) 477-6343 c. (415

Re: yast procedure for going from SLE-10-s390x-SP2 to SLE-10-s390x-SP3

2010-03-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
Well, I'm not Peter, but some of us can't just throw up a sles11 for use without it having the other layered prereqs (security, authentication, blah blah) on top of it. And those involve other groups that also have too much on their plates. I did send him the procedure I used to online update

Re: Mixed CPU environment

2010-03-02 Thread Marcy Cortes
Yes, that's correct. You should be good to go (presuming z/VM 5.4). Average CPU utilization will be screwed up :) - and you'll have to look at individual IFLs. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive

Re: RHEL 5.4 Kickstart

2010-03-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
Well, they did say they'd fix it ;) (next release) Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any

Low address protection

2010-03-11 Thread Marcy Cortes
ff fe 07 fe 07 07 a7 29 00 00 07 fe 07 07 Can someone well versed in Linux explain this in 200 words or less? Is it what I think it is, that this java process stepping somewhere where he shouldn't and the kernel telling him no? Or could there be some kernel bug? Marcy Cortes Team Lead

Re: Low address protection

2010-03-11 Thread Marcy Cortes
[mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Neale Ferguson Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:04 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Low address protection It was doing a MVCLE 4,2 (a842) R2 - 0 so it was trying to reference page 0. On 3/11/10 5:59 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor

Re: Low address protection

2010-03-11 Thread Marcy Cortes
[mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:42 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Low address protection On 3/11/2010 at 06:14 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: Bad bad bad. So would you blame the j2ee app or IBM

Re: Low address protection

2010-03-12 Thread Marcy Cortes
D.; ne...@sinenomine.net Subject: Re: Low address protection On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:04:04 -0600 Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.net wrote: It was doing a MVCLE 4,2 (a842) R2 - 0 so it was trying to reference page 0. On 3/11/10 5:59 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote

Re: Name of LINUX guest

2010-03-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
Reboot. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ray Waters Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 10:18 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: [LINUX-390] Name of LINUX guest Welcome to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 (s390x) - Kernel

Re: Adding volumes to a VolGroup

2010-03-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
Or if you use SuSE, just use Yast2 and all is easy! Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:31 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Adding volumes to a VolGroup

Re: Adding volumes to a VolGroup

2010-03-25 Thread Marcy Cortes
. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:41 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Adding volumes to a VolGroup On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor

Dump volume compatibilty

2010-03-29 Thread Marcy Cortes
While VMDUMP is handy because it is always there under VM, it is so darn slow that it makes its use really unacceptable for large virtual machines (more than 2 hours to dump an 8G virtual machine). Even for a small Linux system of 800M, it's 22 minutes (and that's with a very robust DASD

Re: Dump volume compatibilty

2010-03-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
-mail: tore.agb...@volvo.com http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/ From: Linux on 390 Port [linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes [marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 22:46 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Re: The Linux on System z Toolchain in a Nutshell

2010-05-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
Phone number: US Dial numbers are: US Toll free 1-866-457-2759, US Toll 1-719-387-5502, Tie 650-0107 Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:49 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu

Re: DB2 Connect keeps the guest active

2010-05-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
You might want to take a look at this variable: DB2_MIN_IDLE_RESOURCES Operating system: Linux Default: OFF, Values: OFF or ON This variable specifies that an activated database is to use minimal processing resources when it is idle. This might be useful in some virtual Linux environments

Re: DB2 Connect keeps the guest active

2010-05-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
Oh yeah, turn that off too and use your own startup script. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or

Re: DB2 Connect keeps the guest active

2010-05-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
Turn it off with the command and not by editing /etc/inittab. Otherwise it may come back when you apply maintenance. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use,

Re: zLinux / WebSphere spinup times

2010-05-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
Is it your ID authentication that is slow? I know ours caches things but when it has to go back to the huge Active Directory source, it can take a minute or so. How's your memory/paging/etc? Any spikes you can see on your perf reports? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or

Re: zLinux / WebSphere spinup times

2010-05-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:37 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: zLinux / WebSphere spinup times Is it your ID authentication that is slow? I know ours caches things but when it has to go back

Re: z/VM and z/OS sharing OSAs?

2010-06-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
Since they are on the same port they are obviously on the same subnet. Well no, you can have lots of subnets on the same port. But yes, you can share them with z/OS if you have to. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or

Re: VM Linux Replication

2010-06-02 Thread Marcy Cortes
Jonathon is correct. VM will need a force start and Linux will fsck. We've done more than a dozen tests and have had no issues with either. This is with SLES 9 and 10 and ext3 file systems. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the

Re: Call for Community Participation

2010-06-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
Perhaps the nice folks at marist could update the trailer on the mail template to include the wiki site address? Just a short See our wiki at http://.. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for

Re: How to determine who or what changed directory ownership

2010-06-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
You could run the audit facility. http://shareew.prod.web.sba.com/client_files/callpapers/attach/SHARE_in_Denver/S9203SW163007.pdf Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must

Re: HIPER MCL for z10 processors

2010-06-11 Thread Marcy Cortes
Well, since you brought it up... That's something we discovered. Only z10 too, not any other z. See my posts here ealier this year with low address exception in them. In our case, a 4 vcpu 6G guest running java is affected. Seems to be somewhat load related and definitely some apps are more

Re: Memory use question

2010-06-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
It's called a native memory leak. Lots of things can cause it. Thread pools, asynci i/o are two areas where this can happen. See http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21368248 Also http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21373312 You may have to open a PMR to get IBM to

Re: Memory use question

2010-06-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
Also: so maybe there is incremental swap space saturation over time? Use your perf tool and plot out the last 30 days of swap size to see if it looks like a leak. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to

Re: Using NFS mounted source on Linux with DNS entry

2010-06-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
Just a guess, but have you tried the xxx.xxx.50.0/24 (or whatever your subnet may be) instead of the xxx.xxx.50.* notation? Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Memory use question

2010-06-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 11:12 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Memory use question It's called a native memory leak. Lots of things can cause it. Thread pools, asynci i/o are two areas where this can happen. See http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss

Re: Memory use question

2010-06-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 3:45 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Memory use question Rob mentioned the vm.swappiness setting and he and I have had a lot of discussions about that one

Re: Memory use question

2010-06-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 3:45 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Memory use question Rob mentioned the vm.swappiness setting and he and I have had a lot of discussions about that one. You do want to probably set that to zero on a WAS server (and probably others

Re: Memory use question

2010-06-24 Thread Marcy Cortes
I think you might be talking about generational garbage collection (-Xgcpolicy:gencon ). It's not the default in WAS 6 (not sure about 7). Our biggest app sees much better throughput and less CPU usage using it. Marcy marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com This message may contain confidential

Re: User ID

2010-07-02 Thread Marcy Cortes
First, think about getting a centralized user repository (ldap, active directory, etc) :) You could vipw and vipw -s and edit the password and shadow files and copy that stuff. Then rsync the users home directories. Marcy marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com This message may contain confidential

SMT client can't suse_register

2010-07-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
I have set up a SMT SLES 11 server and it seems to work, mirrors things from Novell just fine. However, I can't get any client to work. The clientSetup4SMT.sh command results in snip Do you accept this certificate? [y/n] y Client setup finished. Start the registration now? [y/n] y

Re: SMT client can't suse_register

2010-07-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
: Failure when receiving data from the peer: (56) 2010-07-13 07:42:28 SUSE::SRPrivate - [error] (2) Is what ends up in the .suse_register log. I can hit that URL with my pc browse and it works. Marcy Cortes Operating Systems Engineer, zVM and Linux on z Enterprise Hosting Services, Mainframe

Re: SMT client can't suse_register

2010-07-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
::SRPrivate - [error] (2) Is what ends up in the .suse_register log. I can hit that URL with my pc browse and it works. Marcy Cortes Operating Systems Engineer, zVM and Linux on z Enterprise Hosting Services, Mainframe/Midrange Services MAC A0187-050 201 3rd St. San Francisco, CA 94103 w. (415) 477

Re: IBM zEnterprise System announced???

2010-07-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
Maybe everyone is waiting for the webcast. The name is a little weird. Sounds speedy - what do *you* think about it? Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use,

Re: IBM zEnterprise System announced???

2010-07-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
If the hw+sw combo is cheaper than nehalem intel as the webcast suggested, that is huge. Too many people only look at HW/SW and think that that is TCO because the rest is too difficult to calculate (or they are politically motivated not to count the other stuff). I would think the increased

Re: IBM zEnterprise System announced???

2010-07-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Thursday, July 22

Re: IBM zEnterprise System announced???

2010-07-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
for your cooperation. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 2:48 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] IBM zEnterprise System announced??? On 7/22/2010 at 05:29 PM, Marcy Cortes

Re: IBM zEnterprise System announced???

2010-07-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
Alan wrote: - Politics. A way different definition of turf. When is Distributed not Distributed? When it's part of zEnterprise. What's with the French accent Alan? I thought Altmark was German or Danish or something? But zee Enterprise sounds a lot better than zed Enterprise for sure.

Re: IBM zEnterprise System announced???

2010-07-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
22, 2010 3:40 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] IBM zEnterprise System announced??? On 7/22/2010 at 06:19 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: Sounds like it will be talking over that private IP network rather than some sort of CP co-processor though, so

Re: IFL's, VM, and Linux

2010-07-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
Ed, I already submitted one for this, particulary that it is pretty hard to know what you have to put in the directory to get it to be an IFL in a mixed mode box. It was accepted. Not sure if more will help, but FWIW... Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged

DB2 direct i/o question

2010-07-23 Thread Marcy Cortes
From the DB2 9.5 doc Prior to Version 9.5, the keyword FILE SYSTEM CACHING was implied if neither NO FILE SYSTEM CACHING nor FILE SYSTEM CACHING was specified. With Version 9.5, if neither keyword is specified, the default, NO FILE SYSTEM CACHING, is used. This change affects only newly

Re: DB2 direct i/o question

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
After reading some more, it turns out you cannot do direct i/o on linux for z if you are using ECKD dasd, only FCP. Which I guess is why the default is off on this platform but not on Intel. Is there a way to limit the amount of memory used for page cache? Marcy This message may contain

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
First of all, you've run out of memory on that server (Swap: 35764956k total, 35764956k used,) It ate all of the 10G and all of the 35G of swap. How many JVM's are running and what are their min/max heap sizes? Marcy “This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
on a windows box.. We have 28 JVMs and sizes are set to 50/256. On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: First of all, you've run out of memory on that server (Swap: 35764956k total, 35764956k used,) It ate all of the 10G and all of the 35G of swap

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
? On 7/26/2010 at 05:05 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: I was going to suggest a dump and a ticket to Novell, but it looks like you aren't SP1, and so are unsupported. SLES11 GA is fully supported until 6 months after SP1 went GA. Even after that, NTS supports the product

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: Thanks for that clarification! Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:21 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] OOM

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
WAS calls non-heap memory native. That's what you seem to be using up. Look at this http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21373312 And if these things don't help, open a PMR with WAS support. Did it stabilize at 18G? The panic_on_oom is a good idea - you can then get a dump (set up a

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
0 3.0 1:55.78 java On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: WAS calls non-heap memory native. That's what you seem to be using up. Look at this http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21373312 And if these things don't help, open

Re: DB2 direct i/o question

2010-07-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
Klaus wrote: This is a DB2 limitiation which others, e.g. Oracle on zLinux, do not have. Yes. What is up with that IBM? Does this make Oracle a better fit on Linux on z than DB2? Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: DB2 direct i/o question

2010-07-30 Thread Marcy Cortes
Mark wrote: That depends on how much you care about newer versions being certified sometime within your life time. Very good point. That's a concern too. Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: NFS and AutoFS - a how to question

2010-08-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
ECKD shop here... Nothing wrong with that - Where are your 2 lpars? Why can't they share? If you do not have physical access to both, you will need to replicate it over a network. What that network is depends... You can send it over an IP with DRBD. You can replicate it with HW with PPRC. I

Re: kernel: page allocation failure recommendations

2010-08-05 Thread Marcy Cortes
Decrease to 0 is what I've been advocating under VM. Keeps linux from doing preemptive moves to swap. Just let VM see the page is being not used and he will page it out. Marcy. Sent from my BlackBerry. - Original Message - From: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu To:

Re: How to convince others. Was: Re: mono keep guest active - ban the blips.

2010-08-19 Thread Marcy Cortes
It'd be even cooler if your monitor could learn a virtual machines normal or expected activity pattern by time of day / day of week and the signal things out of the ordinary. Like the batch activity that was supposed to have been running but took an unexpected low address protection exception

Re: Defining channel bonding of OSA adapters with Yast

2010-11-16 Thread Marcy Cortes
We have it installed on Linux servers that can't use vswitch (xdr hyperswap, don't ask). It's been a while, but I just followed the setup in the Networking with Linux on System z presentation. Sles 10 sp 3 here. Sorry! No yast for me for this! Marcy This message may contain confidential

Re: How many virtual servers per IFL?

2010-12-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
In my SHARE user experiences presentation I usually warn people against even answering that question. Stephen has a good approach to an answer. My boss thinks I'm a smart xxx when I turn it around and ask him How many rocks can you carry? Obviously, not all rocks are created equally. I've had

Re: Kernel panic - not syncing error on Red Hat Linux

2010-12-07 Thread Marcy Cortes
Well, that microcode fun was ours and what Linux got out of that was a low address protection error. This might be a clue: Out of memory and no killable processes error Do you need more memory? Got a memory leak?? Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: Shared filesystem in redhat

2010-12-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
You have NFS and OCFS2 (http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101626 Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of caleb ong Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 7:46 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject:

Oracle client problem on SLES 10

2010-12-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
not having the needed algorithms installed? Marcy Cortes This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information

Re: Oracle client problem on SLES 10

2010-12-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
That was our first thoughts and we have all the ones listed in here. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/relnotes.102/b25399.pdf compat-libstdc++ doesn't seem to exist anymore and now is likely covered by libstdc++33 - we think. Marcy Cortes Operating Systems Engineer, z/VM

Re: Red Hat 6 qeth device driver failed to recover

2010-12-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
Don't you have to bring online the c01 and c02 devices too chccwdev -e 0.0.0c00-0.0.0c02 What does lsqeth tell you? vmcp q v osa ? Marcy Cortes Operating Systems Engineer, z/VM and Linux on System z Enterprise Hosting Services, Mainframe/Midrange Services Wells Fargo Bank | 201

Re: Shared filesystem in redhat

2010-12-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
Agblad, Do you configure both MQ server names in your app server? Or do you move host names to the new server? Or use VIP or something? Do you have anything in place to prevent write links from both servers? Are they on the same VM system? Just curious, we have a MQ MI implementation in

Re: WebSphere CPU attack

2011-01-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
Do you have a good Java monitoring tool? Like Introscope? You need to figure out what is taking your CPU time within the java process and velocity won't do that for you. Are these WAS instances on the server the same app? Or are you running multiple apps on the server? I suspect you might

WAS ND and multicast

2011-01-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
More of a general WAS question that Linux-390, but you all may know! It appears that every server with a WAS ND node agent running on it uses a multicast address of 232.133.104.73. Apparently that is IBM's default. Is that required or something that can be turned off? I kind of suspect maybe

Re: Question regarding new SLES Deployment Guide Draft

2011-01-05 Thread Marcy Cortes
And if you find the DUD (who wants a DUD anyway) - let us know how it goes! We would like a nice easy upgrade path instead of making new servers. (yeah, I know, there was one before but seem to make more of a mess than it was worth). Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390

Re: Advice on setting up minidisks

2011-01-13 Thread Marcy Cortes
Because we were approaching running out of 64K addresses, we're a mainly all mod 27 and 54. 3's are only used for paging basically. 9's for z/VM stuff and some Linux stuff. The issue with larger disks can be queuing on a UCB and that's what PAV solves. We just continue to monitor things to

Re: Useful feature in zypper

2011-01-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
Really really good stuff. You have no idea what patching has become in this day and age and stuff like this is much needed. Thanks for sharing! Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 8:45

Re: Useful feature in zypper

2011-01-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
at 04:49 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: Really really good stuff. You have no idea what patching has become in this day and age Don't bet on it. :( Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Multicast use on a Linux server

2011-01-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
Hello, General Linux question here... Is there a way to tell all the multicast addresses are particular server might be using? Marcy -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Multicast use on a Linux server

2011-01-18 Thread Marcy Cortes
Thanks Scott, Philip, and Alan, That gives me enough info. Curious though how to map the mac addr to the IP from Linux itself? They don't show up in arp -n . Would one check at the router? cdztv17142:~ # netstat -gn(-n being more needed to avoid the dummy

Re: Multicast use on a Linux server

2011-01-19 Thread Marcy Cortes
I tried the netstat from tcpmaint and got DTCNET338E * MAC address is not in the ARP table. Also tried the qetharp and got Unsuccessful: Operation not permitted Suspect that it doesn't work on a L2 vswitch... But we've tracked them all

Re: LVM, PAVs, and cloning

2011-02-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
pvcreate/pvchange sticks them on there. You can choose your own too or change one. Might be useful if you've cloned. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 3:48 PM To:

Re: SLES 11 strange behavior network

2011-02-02 Thread Marcy Cortes
Channel bonding would be another. But even then, I wouldn't pick something that is in CP's range to assign. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 10:46 AM To:

Re: Z10 vs x86 or Sparc

2011-02-07 Thread Marcy Cortes
David answered that very well. It's a question of what problem you are trying to solve! One can say a Ferrari is faster than a semi truck. But if you job is to move 80 refrigerators across country, one probably shouldn't choose the Ferrari! If you are hosting an Oracle farm, a z box is a great

Re: crypto with sshd

2011-02-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
I'm pretty sure SLES 10 SP3's openssh is already built correctly and you should not have to rebuild it. What do you get when you cat /proc/drivers/z90crypt (please post) Are you running under VM? Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On

Re: crypto with sshd

2011-02-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
Of Rogério Soares Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 1:14 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] crypto with sshd and yes, i'm running under vm 6.1. On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: I'm pretty sure SLES 10 SP3's openssh is already

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