Hi, Rich ..

Would definitely suggest you run with more than one paging volume ..
Looks like you may be hitting high page limit which affects block
paging.

We run with the following srm settings but aren't currently memory or
paging constrained.


IABIAS : INTENSITY=100%; DURATION=2   
LDUBUF : Q1=100% Q2=100% Q3=100%      
STORBUF: Q1=300% Q2=250% Q3=200%      
DSPBUF : Q1=32767 Q2=32767 Q3=32767   
DISPATCHING MINOR TIMESLICE = 1 MS    
MAXWSS : LIMIT=9999%                  
...... : PAGES=999999                 
XSTORE : 25%                          

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Blair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:39 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SuSe9 hanging on VM 5.1

Thank you for you replies.
Here is what I did:
1 - I ran this command on each SuSe9 Linux:  sysctl -w
kernel.hz_timer=0.  This removed them from constantly sitting in Q3;
they popped in and out    of Q1 and Q2.
2 - I reduced the size of each linux on the system.
3 - I stopped any Linux instance that was not necessary to run on the
system.
It ran fine for a few hours until a developer got on and started doing
her thing and then it hung. I had to recycle it.
Here are the some current stats.

q alloc page                                                 
                EXTENT     EXTENT  TOTAL  PAGES   HIGH    %  
VOLID  RDEV      START        END  PAGES IN USE   PAGE USED  
------ ---- ---------- ---------- ------ ------ ------ ----  
510RAG 2575          0       3338 601020 238140 600691  39%  
                                  ------ ------        ----  
SUMMARY                           601020 238140         39%  
USABLE                            601020 238140         39%  
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 05:27:04                                  

q srm                                 
IABIAS : INTENSITY=90%; DURATION=2    
LDUBUF : Q1=100% Q2=75% Q3=60%        
STORBUF: Q1=125% Q2=105% Q3=95%       
DSPBUF : Q1=32767 Q2=32767 Q3=32767   
DISPATCHING MINOR TIMESLICE = 5 MS    
MAXWSS : LIMIT=9999%                  
...... : PAGES=999999                 
XSTORE : 0%                           

Thanks.
Rich
-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Michael MacIsaac
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SuSe9 hanging on VM 5.1

> "CP INDICATE QUEUE" will show the quest in Q3
(Robot with flailing arms:  Danger Will Robinson!!  :))  I'm not a VM
perfornace guru, but will ask some of the basic questions.

How much central storage and how much expanded storage do you have?
What
does Q ALLOC PAGE show? What does Q SRM show? What is the total memory
of all your active Linux guests (and can you afford to have some Linuxes
shutdown and logged off)? Do you have the hz_timer off on Linuxes that
are not heavily loaded?

"Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   (845) 433-7061

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