Hi: During and after the FTP: What are the paging rates? # of active machines? I/O rates? What type of DASD box do you have? Maximum chpids online to it? CPU usage?
IF you want you can test this by taking the OSA device(s) away from the vswitch, creating a "private" vswitch. Remember your network connections to the outside world will be down. Check that you have all service applied to CP. David -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Peggy Andrews Sent: Tue 5/9/2006 11:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Poor transfer rates between z/VM Linux guests on VSWITCH Hi, David. We do have a CA monitoring tool. Another sysprog that is working this issue had been watching paging rates and felt we generally have low paging rates, but I will specifically find out what we are monitoring during the transfer. We have 1.6GB defined for the z/VM LPAR. The MTU size is the same on both zLinux guests (MTU 1492), although the x86Linux is defined MTU 1500. We are considering shutting down any other unused zLinux guests on that LPAR (we are in "testing" mode with zLinux) and also, shutting down unnecessary services and rerunning the transfer. We are running z/VM 5.1 RSU level 0402 (and have considered updating the RSU level). This performance is giving us a "black eye" with the distributed side, so any look-at-this or try-this troubleshooting tips are of great value to us. Thanks! Peggy Peggy Andrews Sr. Systems Engineer Information Technology Department Technical Support Services Division City of Sacramento (916) 808-5438 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/9/2006 7:50 AM >>> Hi: Are you using any performance monitoring tools? Do you have high paging rates during the linux vm to linux vm transfer? How much real memory is on the box? Are the MTU sizes the same on both linux machines? Your variance in times vm-to-vm may point at a resource issue. Also check that you have all service applied. What version/release of zvm? David -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Peggy Andrews Sent: Tue 5/9/2006 10:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Poor transfer rates between z/VM Linux guests on VSWITCH We are running Linux guests on an IFL running z/VM I have two Linux (both SuSE 9) guests defined to the VSWITCH I have a 684MB file I use FTP to transfer the file from zLINUX1 to zLINUX2 Results: 1st ftp - 684MB in 2:47 (3.8MB/s) 2nd ftp - 684MB in 1:34 (6.88MB/s) First question, why is the transfer better on the 2nd ftp of the file? Then, I attempt the same file transfer from on of my zLinux guests to an Intel platform Linux server (also SuSE9) on the network (outside of the IFL). I use the same 684MB file and use FTP to transfer the file from zLINUX1 to x86Linux Results: 1st ftp - 684MB in 1:11 (9.17MB/s) 2nd ftp - 684MB in 1:05 (9.96MB/s) Biggest question, why is the transfer better going out the OSA adapter on the network? I certainly thought the transfer between two guests on the VSWITCH would have at least been equal if not better?? Any suggestions regarding configuration corrections or troubleshooting are greatly appreciated. Peggy Peggy Andrews Sr. Systems Engineer Information Technology Department Technical Support Services Division City of Sacramento (916) 808-5438 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
