Thank you to all who have responded. We have a conference call with IBM scheduled. Hopefully we can sort this out then.
-----Original Message----- From: Joel C. Ewing [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 10:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Question concerning Z/VM, Linux and General Processors Or the transaction rate or application complexity has simply grown from the original design and has finally exceeded their IFL engine(s) capacity and they are now trying to determine the cheapest alternative for increasing the CPU power available to z/VM and Linux. JC Ewing On 04/04/2013 09:17 AM, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote: > Thank You Suresh, > > Improper sizing of Memory, Paging and SRN parameters is a definite > possibility. > > -----Original Message----- > From: suresh chacko [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 10:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Question concerning Z/VM, Linux and General Processors > > I agreed with Tom. GCP is set run at low speed though Linux can be hosted > natively on it. There may be something went wrong in initial planning of > Memory, storage sizing etc. Otherwise there should not be any high CPU usage > on IFL. > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Tom Marchant <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 13:38:41 +0000, O'Brien, David W. wrote: >> >>> Can a workload such as Linux which is currently running on an IFL, >>> run on >> a General Processor? >> >> Yes, it can. Remember that IFL processors run at maximum speed, >> while general processors may have been set to run at a slower speed, >> depending on the model. >> >>> We seem to be experiencing high CPU usage and management seems to >>> feel >> switching the >>> workload off of the IFL might be beneficial. >> High CPU usage in the IFL? >> >> -- >> Tom Marchant >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO >> IBM-MAIN >> > > > -- > *SureshNc* > > > -- Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
