Business Week Article

2005-06-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
BusinessWeek article tells the story of First National Bank of Nebraska consolidating 30 (Sun) Unix servers onto one mainframe. The shift boosted hardware-utilization rates to about 70% – and Kucera expects to save $10 million over five years. 'It's revolutionary,' he says. 'It's really good

Re: EMC storage

2005-06-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
I tried it with an EMC 8730 and had no problems. -Original Message- I know this question has been discussed here before and I've tried to search the archives, but with no luck Has anyone used (or attempted to use) EMC storage attached via FCP with either Red Hat or Suse on the

Re: Java 1.5 on Linux for z/Series

2005-06-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
About %#$ time! We can finally get rid of the compat libraries due to the use of the old ABI in the JVM. New C++ programs that use the JNI will now be able to work. -Original Message- It is IBM's intention to ship Java 5.0 (nee 1.5) by year-end 2005 for Linux for zSeries. Of course things

Hillgang Meeting

2005-06-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
The draft brochure for the next Hillgang meeting is available at: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hillgang.pdf I say draft as there may be an addition to the agenda. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Hillgang Reminder

2005-07-06 Thread Neale Ferguson
A reminder that the Hillgang z/VM Linux User group is holding its next meeting on Thursday July 14th at CA's Herndon office. The agenda and abstracts may be found at http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hillgang.pdf. -- For LINUX-390

Re: mksles9root

2005-07-20 Thread Neale Ferguson
Great tool Mike. Thanks! -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: Online update using yast

2005-07-21 Thread Neale Ferguson
/etc/ssh/sshd_config -Original Message- Ok..another quest.. Where is the autho for ssh.. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO

Re: Online update using yast

2005-07-21 Thread Neale Ferguson
Sorry I thought autho = authorization not auto. Mine is started by an init script. What does chkconfig report? -Original Message- Yes that is the config file... What auto starts ssh... Because I have to start it manually..

Re: HCP8083I message on z/VM V5.1

2005-07-23 Thread Neale Ferguson
HELP MSG HCP8083I Is the user EREP logged on (disconnected) and working. -Original Message- Hi,all Please teach me. I run z/VM V5.1. But when I reIPLed z/VM, HCP8083I messages were displayed z/VM console. What should I do?? Please teach me.

MP3K Question

2005-07-25 Thread Neale Ferguson
What does The link between the console and the processing unit is not connected mean on the MP3000 Support Element and how do you fix it? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

IP weirdness

2005-08-05 Thread Neale Ferguson
I have a guest LAN that connects a number of guests. One of the guests is acting as a router (R) and is the default gateway for all the other guests. All but one of the guests can talk to each other, except one (I'll call X) which can only talk to the default gateway. If I ping the others from X I

Re: USER DIRECT file USE?@ word displayed.

2005-08-06 Thread Neale Ferguson
What your seeing is the sequence number column. It's a throwback to the days of the card deck where you'd put a sequence number in columns 73-80 so that if you spilled the deck the sequence could be restored. These columns are ignored by the DIRECT program (as they are by various compilers and

Re: USER DIRECT file USE?@ word displayed.

2005-08-06 Thread Neale Ferguson
You don't need to delete it. The DIRECTXA/DIRMAINT etc. will ignore it. V 1 72 is an XEDIT command that says to VERIFY columns 1 through 72 (i.e. only show these columns while editting). If you also enter SET SERIAL ALL or SET SERIAL ON XEDIT will take care of automatically updating the serial

Re: USER DIRECT file USE?@ word displayed.

2005-08-07 Thread Neale Ferguson
How are u making the backup?? -Original Message- When I make the backup file of USER DIRECT, the column 72-80 of original USER DIRECT file comes to the column 10-18 next line of backup USER DIRECT file. -- For LINUX-390

Re: USER DIRECT file USE?@ word displayed.

2005-08-07 Thread Neale Ferguson
Then stuff in cols 73-80 should stay in cols 73-80. What does L USER DIRBK * (D report? -Original Message- I make the backup file on filelist screen. COPY / USER DIRBK A command on using USER DIRECT file line.(Please see below.)

Re: SLES 9 in an LPAR

2005-08-16 Thread Neale Ferguson
Whether or not you limit the DASD range in zipl.conf it will still do a store subchannel and sense id for each of the devices it can find for the active IOCDS. If it's trying to do sense id (maybe even read device characteristics, I can't recall) for heavily used devices on other LPARs you could

IUCV device driver for Linux 2.6

2005-08-17 Thread Neale Ferguson
Just in time for SHARE... SNA has created an IUCV device driver that allows an application to use open/close/read/write semantics to manage IUCV connections. It's an early release, but we'd like feedback on utility and function of the package. You'll find the source for the package at:

Re: IUCV device driver for Linux 2.6

2005-08-17 Thread Neale Ferguson
-Original Message- here's my feedback on the implementation: - open() should return -EBUSY in case the device is INUSE, not -EACCES Sounds reasonable - release() should probably contain BUG_ON(!dev-flag INUSE), it does only get called by VFS for open file descriptors Okay. -

Re: IUCV device driver for Linux 2.6

2005-08-17 Thread Neale Ferguson
Thanks for indent pointer. Works like a treat. -Original Message- That does most of it (see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/CodingStyle, also see /usr/src/linux/scripts/Lindent): indent -kr -i8 -ts8 -sob -l80 -ss -bs -psl files

Banco do Brasil

2005-08-19 Thread Neale Ferguson
See: http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2005081900526NWDP It was the one type of deposit that wasn't welcomed at Banco do Brasil. The bank, which has branch offices throughout Brazil and around the world, had been addressing its soaring growth by regularly depositing new servers into its

Re: 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
xip2 is a file system that appears as ext2 but resides in a DCSS when running under z/VM. To execute the programs you execute straight from the DCSS without having to move the data from the filesystem. You mmap directly to the page(s) in the DCSS. This means that all your virtual servers *can*

Re: LVM does not see 2nd LVM on reboot

2005-09-02 Thread Neale Ferguson
Did you run mkinitrd? If not, you may want to manually scan and mount your new stuff and then run mkinitrd when everything looks good. You really should report this to SuSE as yast should at least give you a warning or an opportunity to run mkinitrd following a change/addition to LVM. This is

Channel Programming Question

2005-09-09 Thread Neale Ferguson
I'm playing around with a device driver of mine and I have a situation with the following channel program: Write CCW1 X'01',A(OUTPUT),CC+SLI,2 Control CCW1 X'07',0,CC+SLI,1 ReadCCW1 X'02',A(INPUT),SLI,2 For my device driver the I/O receives a Device End and the SCSW shows that the

Channel Programming Question - answer

2005-09-09 Thread Neale Ferguson
If I'd have looked at the meaning of SS=20 and saw program check then things might have worked out sooner. It turns out the data address is invalid! -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: 2005-10-04 Recommended Linux on zSeries code drop to developerWorks

2005-10-06 Thread Neale Ferguson
Don't get me started. Despite the best (and continual) efforts of our many friends in Boeblingen it appears there's resistance elsewhere to including anything which is Not Invented Here. Despite it's 5 year pedigree and widespread use cpint couldn't make it past 1st base. I'm not looking forward

Re: 2005-10-04 Recommended Linux on zSeries code drop to developerWorks

2005-10-06 Thread Neale Ferguson
Please don't patronise me. I and several others from the VM/Linux Technical Steering committee of SHARE have been working hand-in-hand with the lab people since SHARE was in San Francisco a few years ago to work out a means of doing co-operative development. Those involved determined it would be a

Re: 2005-10-04 Recommended Linux on zSeries code drop to developerWorks

2005-10-06 Thread Neale Ferguson
As we say back in Oz, go and get a big black dog up ya. I was explaining why things are as they have become. I'm now going down the path you suggest. -Original Message- Stop bitching. Your problem is that you even think about such non-problems instead of getting work done. Submit

Latest zArchitecture POP

2005-10-07 Thread Neale Ferguson
The latest (-04) level of the Principles of Operations manual is now out. See: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/a2278324.pdf Some of the gems: - Fullword immediate instructions: The extended-immediate facility may be available on models implementing z/Architecture. The facility

Re: catfight.

2005-10-08 Thread Neale Ferguson
Christoph's point is well taken: The best place for the code was to be submitted for inclusion in the mainstream and subject to peer review. My point is that I hadn't avoided that process but had been trying to work with IBM (via SHARE and the Technical Steering Committee) to setup a co-operative

Re: catfight.

2005-10-10 Thread Neale Ferguson
Not so much emoition but jet lag. I should learn not to respond to e-mail after a 21 hour trip from Australia! However, the outcome is a fair result. -Original Message- It's good to see that at the end of day after a long emotional discussion we got to the real bottom-line: Neale needs to

Re: DIAG [was: 2005-10-04 Recommended Linux on zSerie s ...]

2005-10-12 Thread Neale Ferguson
- IUCV network protocol family Why the need to make IUCV a network device? IUCV is not just a point-to-point beastie, it's a single-application-to-single-application protocol. The fact that it was used to create a network protocol for VM and Linux is because an extra layer to mux and demux

Re: DIAG

2005-10-12 Thread Neale Ferguson
Finishing last sentence... - IUCV network protocol family Why the need to make IUCV a network device? IUCV is not just a point-to-point beastie, it's a single-application-to-single-application protocol. The fact that it was used to create a network protocol for VM and Linux is because an extra

Re: DIAG

2005-10-13 Thread Neale Ferguson
Think of the IUCV driver like you would zfcp: You use the sysfs to set up the connection parameters (for zfcp its WWPN/LUN for IUCV its enduser/node/program) and then let the application use the simple open/close/read/write/ioctl semantics. -Original Message- Am not sure if I understand

Linking against openssl

2005-11-15 Thread Neale Ferguson
I am linking a program against libcrypto which is part of openssl. The package is installed and living in /usr/lib: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2005-09-15 14:22 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so - libcrypto.so.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2005-07-20 13:48 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0 -

[PR] Hannaford Brothers Drives Supply Chain z9 Running Linux

2005-12-05 Thread Neale Ferguson
See: http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/051205/0103015.html -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

X-compile build

2005-12-05 Thread Neale Ferguson
I'm attempting to build a cross-compiler for s390 on x86. I downloaded and built binutils okay. I downloaded and configured gcc okay. When I build gcc it spits it with: /usr/local/s390x-ibm-linux/bin/ld: crti.o: No such file: No such file or directory Is there something I needed to set up?

Re: Sending a message to a VM userid from linux

2005-12-20 Thread Neale Ferguson
Apart from cpint and the new method that came in 2.6.14(?) there's also the option of using NJE to send messages to any system (i.e. not just VM) running anywhere. -Original Message- Hello. Is there a way to send a message to a VM userid from Linux running on VM? For example I want t send

Re: Seeking a recommendation on an ISPF and/or batch to Linux interface

2006-01-09 Thread Neale Ferguson
The NJE stuff we did has a batch plug in on the Linux side that will allow you to send jobs to Linux and have the results sent back to z/OS. So your scripts would live up on z/OS you'd submit a job to Linux where it'd be executed and the output from stdout/stderr would be returned back to the

Re: SUN JDK on zseries

2006-01-12 Thread Neale Ferguson
Because no one has ported the HotSpot/JIT code (which is architecture dependent) to s390. Sun uses their Hotspot compiler to take the Java byte codes and create native s390 instruction sequences. I ported the 1.2 and 1.3 JDKs when they still used a Just In Time compiler (JIT) but hesitated when

SLES9 SP3

2006-01-13 Thread Neale Ferguson
See: http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2006011301426NWSWSS Novell has released Service Pack 3 for SuSE Enterprise Linux Server 9, which includes all security patches and bugfixes since SP2--of which there have been dozens--as well as consolidating driver updates for both storage

mono 1.1.13 for s390/s390x

2006-01-13 Thread Neale Ferguson
RPMs for the latest level (1.1.13) of Mono (the FOSS implementation of .NET) is now available for 32-bit and 64-bit Linux on s390/zSeries systems. If you want to run the 32-bit version you need to be on a z800 or later as it uses some of the long relative instructions. Mono has been tagged to

FW: State of the Mainframe (First in a Three-Part Series)

2006-01-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
An interesting article featuring our own Mark Post... -Original Message- State of the Mainframe (1st of 3) Not all mainframers agree about just what ails their favorite platform. Some believe zLinux and other next-generation workloads are false gods. Others think colleagues who cling to

Re: zfcp and SLES 9 64-bit

2006-02-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
Silly question but your /etc/fstab has an entry for that device? -Original Message- I've got a 50G FCP LUN on device F100 attached to a VM named LINUX2. If I IPL SLES on LINUX2, zfcp discovers 0xF100 after /etc/init.d runs through all its startup scripts. I then need to log in as root

Re: zfcp and SLES 9 64-bit

2006-02-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
It seems that your boot disks are eckd and you have the fcp devices mounted during the startup process rather than boot. You said the zfcp driver was being loaded so I'm not sure yuo need the fcp stuff there right at boot time. Does syslog show any problems/warnings? If you had needed the fcp

Hillgang Meeting

2006-02-13 Thread Neale Ferguson
See: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hillgang.pdf 23 Feb 8:30 for 9:00 until 14:00 CA Office Herndon VA RSVP to the Hillgang list -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS hangs

2006-02-14 Thread Neale Ferguson
Some questions: - What other changes have taken place on the VM system? - How big are the virtual machines? - Do other commands on the affected Linux guests respond quickly (what about on the NFS server(s))? - How much storage does your VM system have? - What are the SRM settings for your VM

Re: Initial IPL of SuSE 9

2006-02-21 Thread Neale Ferguson
Is the virtual machine you are IPLing SUSE in MACHINE XA or did you use a CMS template and maybe have MACHINE XC in the directory entry for that user? Neale -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Initial IPL of SuSE 9

2006-02-21 Thread Neale Ferguson
ESA == XA in this context (I'm not sure there is any difference at all in fact). XC would have spewed as soon as you tried any DAT stuff (or a SIGP to put it into zArchitecture mode too I guess). -Original Message- Thanks Neale, I have it defined as MACH ESA I'll try XA.

Hillgang reminder

2006-02-22 Thread Neale Ferguson
A last minute reminder that Hillgang is meeting tomorrow in Herndon VA at the CA offices. If you wish to attend please drop me a note. See: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hillgang.pdf for details. Neale -- For LINUX-390

Re: Mono ASP.NET on Apache on Linux on z

2006-02-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
mod_mono for s390 is now available on the mono download page. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: Mono ASP.NET on Apache on Linux on z

2006-03-02 Thread Neale Ferguson
mod_mono is now on the s390 download page on http://www.go-mono.com/download/sles-9-s390/ Mono is not a full .NET (i.e. it doesn't have passport and all those other frills real or vaporware). To quote from the Mono FAQ: The .NET Initiative is a somewhat nebulous company-wide effort by

Re: Mono ASP.NET on Apache on Linux on z

2006-03-02 Thread Neale Ferguson
Though Micrsoft has published its stuff under the ECMA standards. So the APIs are defined and documented. -Original Message- Bear in mind that Microsoft defines the rules, writes the code etc, releases a new version and about then is when the Mono folk find out the new rules so they can

Re: Mono ASP.NET on Apache on Linux on z

2006-03-02 Thread Neale Ferguson
Rather than get into a URL swap start at http://mono-project.com/FAQ:_General#Mono_and_Microsoft to see what Novell have to say on the matter. Neale I'm sure I've seen something of more direct relevance re asp.net docs, but this illustrates the point:

Re: recommendations for Mono on z/Linux?

2006-03-15 Thread Neale Ferguson
Go for 64-bit. That's where I'll be concetrating my development efforts. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Do any of you that are attempting Mono on z/Linux have a strong feeling for whether I should use the 31- or 64-bit flavor?

Re: cpint install problem - what am I doing wrong? Ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2006-03-28 Thread Neale Ferguson
There are a couple of ioctls that the driver uses. The most probable is the one that retrieves the return code. Does the zlt1 virtual machine receive the B? Can you use strace to trace the syscalls of hcp? Hang on a minute /dev/cpcmd isn't a device, there's no major/minor number. It's not even

Re: cpint install problem - what am I doing wrong? Ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2006-03-29 Thread Neale Ferguson
Are there any messages on syslog when you load the driver? What does ls -l /dev/cpcmd show now? -Original Message- I must be missing something here. I performed the steps you suggested and tried again. Got the same result. Checked modprobe list and found that there are two files and one

Re: FLEX-ES

2006-04-06 Thread Neale Ferguson
That driver is for the channel attached 3590. -Original Message- Now that there are Open Source Linux drivers for 3590, how to drive them is documented, which means I wouldn't be surprised if 3590 support gets added to Flex-ES pretty soon. Note, though, that this is wild speculation on

Re: A new question

2006-04-06 Thread Neale Ferguson
This is a manual process. You or your network guy is going to have to go to the DNS server and add it to the appropriate files. Neale -Original Message- Now that my Linux partition is up, how do I get the external DNS server to know its name? The DNS chapter in SG24-4987 describes a lot

Re: SLES9 DB2 Restore Problem with 3590 tapes

2006-04-06 Thread Neale Ferguson
From the console log: Krnl Code: 00 00 b9 04 00 2b b9 04 00 3c c0 e5 ff ff e9 61 e3 30 b1 18 It's not the tape error per se but the code in the kernel. X'' will give you an operation exception and the kernel will throw up its hands and give up. Is this the latest tape mod you have for this

Re: mono install doc error?

2006-04-12 Thread Neale Ferguson
Try it without gtk-sharp as that package hasn't been ported to s390(x). If this doesn't work then I think the easiest way is to just download the zip file containing all the RPMs and use the RPM command to install them. I've not tried the rug-rat method. -Original Message- Should I just

Re: install methods

2006-04-12 Thread Neale Ferguson
rug will be the best way of doing things, just that I never ported GTK# to s390. Did you try the install without it? (Under the covers Yast2/rug are just using the rpm command set. Rug just simplifies things like dependency checking.) -Original Message- Wow - we haven't learned much from

Re: install methods - best practices?

2006-04-13 Thread Neale Ferguson
You don't even need to download RPMs to install them. You can use rpm -Uhv http://... or other URL. If you do want to put them somewhere then /usr/src/packages/RPMS/s390x is probably as good as place as any, but as soon as they are installed you can delete them. The install process extracts the

Re: install methods

2006-04-13 Thread Neale Ferguson
What does rpm -qa | grep mono report? As far as dependency checking if all the RPMs were there the rpm usually orders the install so that the dependencies are met. Which ones did it complain about? -Original Message- Well, it's a cart-before-the-horse kind of thing: I have to install

Re: install methods

2006-04-14 Thread Neale Ferguson
Mono.posix is supposed to be part of mono-core so I'm not sure why you're seeing what you are seeing. Try using the --nodeps option on the rpm -Uhv and see if xsp will come up okay. (I prefer to use mod_mono with Apache rather than using the xsp standalone.) If it works then that may just

New z9 models

2006-04-27 Thread Neale Ferguson
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/z9bc/ http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/z9ec/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: VIM question.

2006-05-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
Those options work for me on z. (Sles 9) -Original Message- I use VIM on several systems, including z/OS Unix, Mac OS X, and Linux. I noticed on the Linux systems the extend features don't work. I noticed this on Intel and Z. The features I miss are the -o option (as in vim -o file1

Re: Poor transfer rates between z/VM Linux guests on VSWITCH

2006-05-09 Thread Neale Ferguson
How big are the guests? What are your SRM settings? What does #CP IND Q show during the transfers? How many other guests do you have? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Who's been reading our list...

2006-05-16 Thread Neale Ferguson
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/index.php?p=595 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: Help with new MDISKS.

2006-06-08 Thread Neale Ferguson
ATT 829 SYSTEM LX0006 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: Non responsive Linux Guest now and then

2006-06-19 Thread Neale Ferguson
This problem has come up a number of times. Check the following links to describe Eligible lists (E3) and the commands needed to tailor your z/VM environment to work best with Linux guests: http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/z890.html http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/linuxper.html

Re: Non responsive Linux Guest now and then

2006-06-19 Thread Neale Ferguson
What are your SRM settings (Q SRM). (There's a section on Eligible lists in one of those references I sent.) -Original Message- The Linux guests are very small with very little activity against them. They are defined with 500MB each. The z/VM LPAR has 1488 MB real storage defined to it. I

Re: Non responsive Linux Guest now and then

2006-06-19 Thread Neale Ferguson
3 guests at 512MB. With Linux all pages will be touched and become part of the working set. z/VM calculates total working set requirements = 3 * 512MB and compares it against what's available c.1488 * 0.95 (95% for Q3 STORBUF). It then determines that not all Linux guests can be dispatched and

Tickless patch

2006-06-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
See: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6750 The tickless kernel feature (CONFIG_NO_HZ) enables 'on-demand' timer interrupts: if there is no timer to be expired for say 1.5 seconds when the system goes idle, then the system will stay totally idle for 1.5 seconds. This should bring cooler CPUs and power

Re: SLES10 GA

2006-07-19 Thread Neale Ferguson
It has the bonus features: commentary by the developers. The bloopers section is hysterical! The XXX section is worth looking at too: loved seeing Torvalds examining the SRDL instruction and getting a bit on the side. -Original Message- Any idea or reason why the DVD is so big .. in total

IBM Mainframe LPAR Virtualization Achieves EAL 5

2006-07-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
ARMONK, NY - 21 Jul 2006: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the company's mainframe and POWER-based virtualization technologies have achieved one of the computer industry's most stringent security certifications, illustrating IBM's virtualization leadership. In the security certification -- known

Re: MDISK vs DEDICATED DASD

2006-07-28 Thread Neale Ferguson
For dedicated volumes z/VM won't have to do relocation of seek/search/define extent/locate extent cylinder values. Mind you this is not exactly a taxing task given the typical channel program. Is there is any benefit to using dedicated DASD vs minidisk with 5.2 on a z/890 ( No IOASSIST

XFS and LVM

2006-08-02 Thread Neale Ferguson
Is anyone using XFS on top of LVM disks on zSeries? If so, how does it go? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

ext3 and BKL

2006-08-04 Thread Neale Ferguson
Reiser still makes extensive use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock). In 2.4 ext3 appeared to use it a lot too. What is the state of play with ext3 and BKL in 2.6. Just looking at the source I couldn't find any references to lock_kernel. The locks appear to be local (buffer, ext3_handler ...). I know

Re: ext3 and BKL

2006-08-05 Thread Neale Ferguson
Thanks for the pointer. I had found it in one of my searches and its discussion of XFS prompted my earlier question asking if anyone was using it on zSeries. It's one of the most thorough papers I'd found. Too many others were quite simplistic and very rarely dealt with SMP environments or

Re: Command to determine guest cpu usage

2006-08-16 Thread Neale Ferguson
Here's my 2 cents worth. I'm sure in the next hour or so there'll be a heap of other suggestions. Apart from the obvious philosophical lament: you need a performance tool, there are a few thing you can look at. Most of these commands have some lag and some smoothing with what they are reporting

Re: CUPS

2006-08-17 Thread Neale Ferguson
Some questions: - Any informationV in the log files? - Is the guest responsive during that 5-10 minute period? - Can you ping the printers from that guest? - What does traceroute show during the time the printers aren't accessible? -Original Message- OK, I am a little frustrated here.

Re: Tracing question

2006-08-21 Thread Neale Ferguson
Use gdb to stop the program where you are interested. Get its address. Quit gdb. Go to the VM console: #CP TR I R address of the routine you are interested in (If you are in a virtual MP environment then prefix commands by #CP CPU ALL, e.g. #CP CPU ALL TR I R ...) Start the program. When you

Re: Linux/390 DVDs

2006-08-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
For Debian/390 see: http://www.sinenomine.net/debian/media -Original Message- I'd like to receive the LINUX/390 DVDs. Let me know where to send the cash. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: VSFTP Exit

2006-08-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
Yes, NJE. -Original Message- The FTP on the z/OS has exit call FTPSMFEX... which contains informations(dataset) . Base on the datasetname sent... it will start a job. Another word if a file has arrived, start the TASK. Any suggestion ???

VMRM has CMM support

2006-09-01 Thread Neale Ferguson
See: http://www.vm.ibm.com/sysman/vmrm/vmrmcmm.html VMRM Cooperative Memory Management (VMRM-CMM) between a z/VM system and Linux guests assists in managing memory constraint in the system. Based on several variables obtained from the system and storage domain CP monitor data, the Virtual Machine

Hillgang Meeting

2006-09-05 Thread Neale Ferguson
The next meeting of the DC-based Hillgang Linux z/VM User Group will be held on September 14 at CA's office in Herndon. For agenda information, directions, and registration details please see: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0914.pdf Neale Ferguson

Re: Disks for DB2 - San vs. big 3390s

2006-09-07 Thread Neale Ferguson
Given that DB2 will be *BLOCKIO to do its I/O (I think that it does anyway) will z/VM create the necessary SCSI commands directly or does it construct an FBA CCW chain that then needs to be translated? If it's the former then performance should be quite good, if the latter then there's a bit of

Re: Disks for DB2 - San vs. big 3390s

2006-09-07 Thread Neale Ferguson
D'oh! I should never answer a post after a couple of Belgian beers (a 9% Gouden Carolus triple and a fruit beer for dessert)! -Original Message- I had to look back at Marcy's message, yes she means DB2/UDB on Linux, not DB2 on VM (which I'm guessing relates to your answer). Neale

Hillgang Reminder

2006-09-11 Thread Neale Ferguson
A final reminder that the next meeting of the DC-based Linux VM user group Hillgang will take place this Thursday. Thanks to IBM attendees will be treated to a hot breakfast prior to the start of the presentations. http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0914.pdf Neale

Hillgang Presentations from 2006-09-14

2006-09-20 Thread Neale Ferguson
Available at: http://www.sinenomine.net/node/565 Neale -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: SWAPGEN EXEC and RHEL4 64-bit

2006-09-22 Thread Neale Ferguson
DIAG 250 is 64-bit enabled in 5.2. On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 13:33 -0400, David Boyes wrote: Yes, they are using it in FBA mode. The problem lies in the fact that the necessary DIAG does not work in 64-bit mode on 64-bit zArchitecture systems, or at least not yet (Hey, Chuckie?).

Linux-Watch: Novell Goes for SCO's Throat

2006-10-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
On Sept. 25, IBM took its crack at ending its case with SCO by summary judgment. Now, it's Novell's turn, and the company appears to be attempting to cut of SCO's lifeline to its cash reserves. On September 29th, Novell Inc. filed for 'partial summary judgment as to its Sixth, Seventh, Eighth,

OpenSolaris

2006-11-16 Thread Neale Ferguson
Hi, Earlier posts to this list made reference to some work being done on Opensolaris on System z. I've been experimenting with this for several months now. There's about 150,000 lines of new or changed code involved. I thought it'd be useful/interesting to summarize where I'm at. Below is the

Re: OpenSolaris

2006-11-16 Thread Neale Ferguson
There is an active project to port zfs underway. I was reading about it on the Sun blog site. On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 15:03 -0500, Post, Mark K wrote: I don't think that would have been possible, given the differences in licensing. If Sun follows through on some comments they've made in the

Re: SLES 9 SP 3 - Oracle 9i install problem

2006-12-06 Thread Neale Ferguson
The 1.3.1 java came with the script that within it would invoke the binary. A set -x will allow you to trace it. On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 17:18 -0500, David Boyes wrote: File shows ./java to be a Bourne Shell script. This is IBMJava2-s390-131, that came as part of the Oracle 9i distribution.

Re: Source RPM Install Problem

2006-12-15 Thread Neale Ferguson
What you need is rpmbuild --rebuild --clean /usr/. Installing a src rpm just puts its components in SOURCE/SPECS/ ready for you to build. Neale On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:08 -0500, Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Open Object Rexx from the source RPM,

Hillgang (resend w/o attachment)

2007-01-04 Thread Neale Ferguson
). The agenda will be on the VM website soon but in the meantime it can be found at http://vm.marist.edu/~neale/hillgang.pdf. Please RSVP as soon as you can. Neale Ferguson -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Hillgang

2007-01-10 Thread Neale Ferguson
A reminder that the next Hillgang meeting is tomorrow in Herndon Va. Details at: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/HILL0107.PDF. Neale Ferguson -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

dyntick patch

2007-01-16 Thread Neale Ferguson
Is this a refinement/replacement/complement to the hz_timer stuff already in the kernel: http://kerneltrap.org/node/7568 Avi Kivity suggested that combining KVM, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine [story], with the dyntick patch [story] could improve overall KVM performance. He noted that it would

Re: Script problem

2007-01-16 Thread Neale Ferguson
To maintain the environment variables after the script exits you need to invoke with: . scriptname Neale On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 13:39 -0500, Bates, Bob [CCC-OT_IT] wrote: OK, I'm stumped. This ought to be easy but I don't see it. Running a script to update the $PATH and set a few others. But

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