Absolutely agreed. Not knowing what else might be in the machine I didn't want to strangle it too much. I indicated that after some monitoring, it could come down somewhat more.
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:10, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: > 256M? > > I'd give it only 64M. We run Apache servers and Samba servers in as > little as 48M with SuSE SLES8. Be sure to give it lots of swap space > though, at least as much as the virtual storage. I'd recommend swap in > V-disk, and make sure your LPAR has plenty of expanded storage. Do all > of this and you'll probably see performance actually increase. Oh, and > one virtual processor is plenty for this application. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Sendmail Under zLinux Hanging > > > Is Sendmail the only thing running in this virtual machine? If so, > 1.5GB is way overkill. Try backing off to 256MB and monitor your > storage utilization with free and vmutil. You may find that you can > reduce it somewhat further. > > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:49, Giancarlo Rodolfi wrote: > > I have a cutomer running Sendmail and POP Server under a Linux RedHat > > vitual machine. The system is hanging and he has to "force" the > > machine off the system and restart. I can see any messages on the zvm > > console or under linux that could give me any explanation about what > > is happening. > > > > I'm running z/VM 4.4 on a z990 with 10 IFL's and 22GB of memory. > > > > The virual machine has 1.5GB of memory, 2 virtual processors. The > > kernel version is 2.4.21, QDIO interaces with the qioassist on, > > sendmail version 8.11.6. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- > Rich Smrcina > Sr. Systems Engineer > DSG eServer & Linux Solutions > Milwaukee, WI > rsmrcina at wi.rr.com > rsmrcina at dsgroup.com > > Catch the WAVV! Stay for requirements and the free-for-all. Update your > zSeries skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2004 in > Chattanooga, TN April 30-May 4, 2004 For details see http://www.wavv.org > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Rich Smrcina Sr. Systems Engineer DSG eServer & Linux Solutions Milwaukee, WI rsmrcina at wi.rr.com rsmrcina at dsgroup.com Catch the WAVV! Stay for requirements and the free-for-all. Update your zSeries skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2004 in Chattanooga, TN April 30-May 4, 2004 For details see http://www.wavv.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
