Hello, I just returned from a disaster recovery test. After we restored our Linux for zSeries guests, we booted up several at one time. We noticed the system being very sluggish. I jumped on each of them and noticed that either a process called update-status or parse-metadata was running on all of them and consuming most if not all of the CPU. To get around the problem, I killed the offending process and went about finishing the test.
Here at home I have not noticed this to be a problem. However at our DR site it appears to be. We contract with a IBM to perform DR tests at one of their BCRS sites. I am told that the hardware we are testing on is 3 generations or so behind what we have at home. It has a fraction of the number of CPUs that we have at home. It also has a lot less memory than we have at home. Performance problems show up in this environment. I have spent some quality time with google looking this up. All of the hits appear to be Intel based and have a list of some processes to stop running (using the runlevel editor) and/or packages to uninstall. So far I have not found any information on what is recommended for a zSeries system. At home, I do not have a problem. There are sufficient resources to let parse-metadata and update-status do their thing. At our DR location, we have a problem Any recommendations for a zSeries system? Is killing the offending process the right thing to do? Thanks, Ron Foster Baldor Electric ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
