If you're going to be paying big bucks for a Linux/390 distribution, why not use the tools provided? Five percent of 350 anything is not a lot, so no wonder it seems rather slow. But, S/390 and zSeries processors are pretty slow to start with, especially compared to Intel, PowerPC, etc. You'll be slowing things down even more if you start compiling a lot of packages from source, since that is a very CPU-intensive task. Plus, you'll have no record of what is installed on your system, no easy way of upgrading your software when needed, etc., etc. Use RPM. There's a reason why it's being used by SUSE.
If you're going to run production work on this system, you should be concerned about the slowness. So, give it more than 5% of your system. Talk to your software suppliers about what performance tools they have available for Linux/390. You're probably not going to find much in the Open Source world that will work well in an LPAR environment where things are, ummm, fluid in terms of resource allocation. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ranga Nathan Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SuSE 8 on OS/390 Thanks to those who gave me pointers about the installation. After I re-partitioned, mounted (I finally figured out I only have to highlight and PRESS ENTER on the partition to mount and format!) and installed a minimal graphics system, everything went fine. I have a couple of questions: 1. This is the first time I am using 'rpm' to install. It seems very slow. Usually I take the ./configure, make, make install route. So I dont know if it is normal. We have given 5% CPU of our 350mips z/800 to it. We are NOT running on IFL. This is not a cap. We have also given it 512MB memory. I am surprised that 'yast' and 'rpm' are very slow, in fact slower than the celeron 400 with 64MB I used to run with. What monitoring and probing tools do people generally use (MRTG? Cacti? ) ? 2. I installed all the software (the BLT) through yast but it does not seem to have installed an ftp server. Most like apache, postfix, mysql etc got installed, why not ftp? So, I am thinking of installing wu-ftp or nc-ftp. Wonder what others run? I am very concerned about the slowness. We need to run MQ Series on this. TIA
