On Monday 4 February 2002 20:11, Patterson, Ross wrote: > I'd like to trade notes with anyone who's actually running IBM's "on demand > timer" kernel patch on an S/390 or zSeries box, especially under VM. We're > trying to reduce unnecesary CPU consumption by our several dozen Linux/390 > guests, and the VMer in me "knows" that getting rid of the > 100-times-a-second timer pop must be a good thing. But before I go through > the rigamarole of getting it installed on a system I can try real workloads > on, I'd like to see what others have experienced.
i didn't experienced any troubles with this patch. we're running Linux under VM on an S/390 and on a z/900. Perhaps some of you could remind us softwares that are known to behave badly with this patch. A+OF > > Thanks, > Ross Patterson > Computer Associates -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] work=0149092200:2782
