Shrink your guests virtual storage size down to something reasonable, such as 32-64MB. Then, read these: http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/linuxper.html http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/storconf.html
Mark Post P.S., Please change your email client so that replies to your mailing list posts go back to the mailing list, and not just you. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 1:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: My Linux stop working for a time and continue working Hello. I have a big problem with my Linux s390 with vm, I have running suse 8. The problem is that I have two linux partition, and sometimes linux 1 stop working and few minutes later linux 2 stop working also. The machine feactures are: IBM_s390, with 512 Ram mb and 2gb swat , suse 8. I captured the top command in the time problems and I am sending my log message. What others things can I check ? in Linux and in vm ? top -q PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 31461 root 15 -10 1228 1224 964 R < 98.9 0.4 25:28 top 1 root 15 0 184 176 140 S 0.0 0.0 0:03 init 2 root 0K 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 migration_CPU0 3 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kmcheck 4 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 5 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 1:18 kswapd 7 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush 8 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:04 kupdated 9 root 18 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 1:09 kinoded 10 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd 24 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:15 kjournald 50 root 0 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 lvm-mpd 69 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:02 kreiserfsd 169 root 15 0 1360 1032 720 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 smbd 302 root 15 0 440 436 312 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 syslogd 305 root 15 0 1432 1428 428 S 0.0 0.5 0:01 klogd 345 bin 18 0 200 148 104 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 portmap 351 root 25 0 996 920 732 S 0.0 0.3 0:15 sshd 461 at 15 0 208 200 108 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 atd 484 root 15 0 1664 1660 1168 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 nscd 493 root 15 0 1664 1660 1168 R 0.0 0.6 0:01 nscd 494 root 15 0 1664 1660 1168 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 nscd 495 root 15 0 1664 1660 1168 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 nscd 496 root 15 0 1664 1660 1168 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 nscd 497 root 15 0 1664 1660 1168 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 nscd 498 root 15 0 1664 1660 1168 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 nscd 502 root 15 0 600 596 512 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 mingetty 30078 root 15 0 1816 1812 1452 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 cron 31025 root 15 0 3040 3000 2388 R 0.0 1.1 1:19 sshd 31027 root 16 0 3444 3440 2496 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 bash 31061 root 15 0 3036 2996 2388 S 0.0 1.1 0:02 sshd 31063 root 15 0 3468 3464 2504 S 0.0 1.3 0:00 bash 31176 root 18 0 688 688 588 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 inetd 31251 root 15 0 17316 16M 17048 S 0.0 6.8 0:05 httpd 31252 wwwrun 15 0 18008 17M 17392 S 0.0 7.1 0:00 httpd 31271 wwwrun 15 0 17808 17M 17396 S 0.0 7.0 0:01 httpd 31440 root 15 0 19808 19M 6952 S 0.0 7.8 0:20 java 31447 root 15 0 19808 19M 6952 R 0.0 7.8 0:00 java Here is my /var/log/messages Jun 16 14:59:00 linux1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[14637]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Jun 16 15:00:00 linux1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[14641]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 ) Jun 16 15:10:00 linux1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[14672]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 ) Jun 16 15:16:43 linux1 sshd[14699]: Could not reverse map address 176.179.0.11. Jun 16 15:16:48 linux1 sshd[14699]: Accepted password for root from ::ffff:176.179.0.11 port 2549 ssh2 Jun 16 15:20:00 linux1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[14726]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 ) Jun 16 15:30:00 linux1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[14740]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 ) Jun 16 15:40:00 linux1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[14789]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 ) Jun 16 16:21:22 linux1 kernel: ctc0: got block length 32762 != rx length 92 Jun 16 16:21:22 linux1 kernel: klogd 1.4.1, ---------- state change ---------- Jun 16 16:21:22 linux1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[14841]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 ) Jun 16 16:21:22 linux1 /USR/SBIN/CRON[14842]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Jun 16 16:21:23 linux1 kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.19-3suse-SMP Jun 16 16:21:24 linux1 kernel: Loaded 9956 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.19-3suse-SMP. Jun 16 16:21:24 linux1 kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.19. Jun 16 16:21:24 linux1 kernel: Loaded 472 symbols from 10 modules. Jun 16 16:21:58 linux1 sshd[14867]: Could not reverse map address 176.179.0.11. Jun 16 16:22:02 linux1 sshd[14867]: Accepted password for root from ::ffff:176.179.0.11 port 2753 ssh2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
