On Monday 14 January 2002 10:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>    a)   An MP3000-H70 is, IIRC, a box like the P/390 in that OS|2
>         is running to handle much of the I/O.  Yes, it's bigger
>         than a PC and it's CP's are NOT those single-board s/390
>         CMOS CPUs;  But it still won't win many prizes.

He never really tells us what sort of DASD he has.  If it's OS/2 DASD that
would certainly account for poor disk performance, but that's not what his
complaint is.

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>    b)   The -H70 has 2 CPs and is actually capable of being LPAR'd.
>
>         I do not recall whether is has the "good" FP capability (IEEE
>         rather than BHP).  I would imagine that you've LPAR'd this
>         box into a z/OS (OS/390) partition and a z/VM partition-  and
>         that you have Linux within a VM instance.
>

The MP3K is supposed to be a G5 class system, which means that it has the
internal IEEE floating point feature.  What is BHP?

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>
>         You really need to keep track of VM's own performance monitors.
>         Not being a VM/CMS maven, I'm more that a little innocent when
>         it comes to performance tools-  and Linux's own performance
>         tools (vmstat, sar, etc) can't be trusted within a VM-ified
>         instance (though an LPAR image will give you a better cut)
>         (and I don't think an "absolute share" is that absolute, is it?).
>

LPS from Velocity Software.  It is actually a suite of 4 products and also
can monitor Linux processes and report their stats back to VM.

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Rich Smrcina
Sytek Services, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
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