3390
Vendor should not matter; these are on an EMC frame.
What would bog Linux I/O to 3390s?


-- R;


----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08/17/2006 12:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: I/O wait times -vs- Linux memory

Rick, what kind of Linux i/o are you doing? To real 3390s? To SHARKs
looking like a 3390? To some sort of SCSI attached disk?

DJ

Richard Troth wrote:
We're looking at some high I/O wait times for a certain database.  One
engineer has suggested that we add memory to Linux to speed things up.  I
don't see it.  Does adding RAM to Linux help its I/O throughput?

We've put a lot of effort into sizing our Linux guests  (all hosted by
z/VM 5.2)  to that magical point between guest-level paging and excess
guest memory use,  so some of us resist the thought of adding
real-to-Linux memory.  I seems obvious that adding RAM would let any
access method do more buffering,  but we want to avoid some of that
buffering because Linux gets carried away with it,  correct?

Thoughts?  Thanks!

-- R;


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