Stupid question, but it's gotta be asked...

You did copy the kernel to /boot, updated /etc/zipl.conf, re-ran zipl, and
re-IPLed didn't you?

Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Geyer, Thomas L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 4:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FW: Pop Timer Patch


> I hate to be a pain, but I have installed the pop timer patch (I thought)
> when I created the 2.4.17 kernel. I started with SLES 7 which I received
> from SuSE as a Trial Copy. I applied the patches in the order specified on
> the developerworks website and followed the procedure to rebuild the
> kernel. I selected the CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ_TIMER option in menuconfig. The
> following is a section of the .config file that tells me that it is set:
>
> CONFIG_PFAULT=y
> # CONFIG_SHARED_KERNEL is not set
> CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ_TIMER=y
>
> #
> # SCSI support
> #
> CONFIG_SCSI=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m
>
> I am told that the following data from ESAMAP indicates that the Linux
> virtual machine, linuxvm, never leaves the dispatch list.
> UserID   Logged  Non-          Disc- Total  Tran <-------Dispatch
> List------->
> /Class       on  Idle  Active  conn  InQue  /min    Q0    Q1    Q2    Q3
> Ldng
> -------- ------ ----- ------- ------ -----  ---- ----- ----- ----- -----
> -----
>  LINUXVM     1.0     1     1.0      1   0.9     0   0.9     0     0     0
> 0
>
> We are still seeing high CPU utilization from this virtual machine with it
> doing no productive work. It is consistly in the top 15 cpu users on the
> system.
>
> Below are the patches and the sequence they were applied to build the
> kernel:
>
>      tar -xvf /home/geyer/linux-2.4.17.tar
>      tar -xvf /home/geyer/linux-2.4.17-s390-may2002.tar
>     patch -p1 -d linux < linux-2.4.17-s390-may2002.diff
>     tar -zxvf /home/geyer/linux-2.4.17-s390-1-may2002.tar.gz
>    patch -p1 -d linux < linux-2.4.17-s390-1-may2002.diff
>     tar -zxvf /home/geyer/linux-2.4.17-timer-1-may2002.tar.gz
>     patch -p1 -d linux < linux-2.4.17-timer-1-may2002.diff
>
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> Tom
>
>


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