On Monday 14 January 2002 10:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. > > 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? > > > 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. -- Rich Smrcina Sytek Services, Inc. Milwaukee, WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
