Output of Q SRM q srm IABIAS : INTENSITY=90%; DURATION=2 LDUBUF : Q1=100% Q2=75% Q3=60% STORBUF: Q1=300% Q2=250% Q3=200% DSPBUF : Q1=32767 Q2=32767 Q3=32767 DISPATCHING MINOR TIMESLICE = 5 MS MAXWSS : LIMIT=9999% ...... : PAGES=999999 XSTORE : 0% Ready; T=0.01/0.01 09:49:05
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Daniel. > > The answer to your first question is to use the CP FORCE command (HELP > CP FORCE will tell you all about it.) The VM user id issuing the FORCE > command needs to have privilege class A as well. Usually this is done > from either MAINT or OPERATOR. > > The answer to your second question is a bit more difficult, I'm afraid. > As Marcy has already suggested, what does a Q SRM command show? My first > guess would be that your SLES11 guest is falling into Q3 and never given > an opportunity to run. > > To find out *why* the guest is not able to run, you need the services of > a good z/VM performance monitor.....IBM offers the Performance Monitor > (it comes bundles with z/VM, but it's an extra cost offering) and > Velocity Software (http://www.velocity-software.com/) has a very good > suite of products as well. IMHO it' practically impossible to run a > modern production grade z/VM-zLinux system without a good performance > monitor to help solve issues like the one your having now. > > On 09/15/2010 05:14 PM, Daniel Tate wrote: >> We're starting to run apps on the servers now. From time to time a >> guest will become unresponsive - to be more precise, ,the CP will not >> respond to commands, and neither will the guest OS (SLES11). not >> even #CP LOGOFF is acknowledged. from another login, CP INDIIC LOAD >> shows no appreciable load. >> >> Two questions from this: >> >> 1) how would I force a logoff of a user from another user? Is this possible? >> 2) if we are not paging and the IFLs are not loaded (2-3% utilization >> as a matter of fact) what could the bottleneck be? >> > > -- > Dave Jones > V/Soft Software > www.vsoft-software.com > Houston, TX > 281.578.7544 >
