On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 04:54, Mike Fry wrote: > 1] Is there any way of getting accurate SAR, Accounting stats etc... out of > z/VM-LINUX guest.
The standard Linux tools are no help, because they assume that the amount of capacity in the machine is fixed. Since the machine has, really, a variable (and fractional) number of CPUs available to it at any instant, top and friends will just be confused. If you're using Performance Toolkit, you also want to get the RMFPMS collector and run that on your Linux guests to feed statistics back to VM. It's free and downloadable from IBM. OTOH, if you don't mind spending more money--I don't know how much more--Velocity Software makes what is, by all accounts, an excellent performance monitoring suite. Adam
