A CPU load of 10 may seem high, but I would be more concerned about what your CPU utilization is (%busy). As Alan Cox pointed out, the defaults for sendmail are set a little low, and S/390 processors are simply not as fast as Intel for certain tasks, so the load averages are probably going to be higher on S/390 than Intel. If you've got unused capacity, a load average of 100 is meaningless. The ability of S/390 processors to multi-task is considerably better than Intel's. Sign on, run top and the other tools that Alan mentions, and see what's really happening. (Guessing doesn't help, even when experts are doing the guessing.) Bump up sendmail's queuing and reject levels and give it another try.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Moloko Monyepao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bogomips S390(IFL) / Intel Mark, I wanted to run multiple Linux/390 LPARs but with tthis problem I ended up giving this Linux/390 lpar the whole IFL. I also ran the following command to test how long does it takes to compile sendmail on my Linux/390 Lpar as compared to Intel, the command is : "time sh Build" from Intel it takes about 1 min and from Linux/390 it took about 3min. I also tried to increase my storage to 1024 and gave it the expanded storage of 512 but that didn't make a different. When it started rejecting connections the CPU load was very high, about 10. My Lpar is connected via an escon channel to the 2216 which is shared among 4 other system. I dont thing that will be the case because the other lpar performs OK. Please assist moloko
