>>> On 8/7/2008 at 11:55 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Quay, Jonathan (IHG)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
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> The RH and Suse support folks
> should probably be trained to ask about this for anything that sounds
> like a mystery hang or timeout on Z.  

Whenever I hear about z/VM guests "going to sleep" the first things out of my 
mouth are:
- Do you have a z/VM performance monitor?  What's it telling you about Elibible 
lists?  Really, you need to get a monitor.  No, really.
- What are your z/VM SRM parameters?  The defaults aren't good for Linux 
workloads.
- How much real and expanded storage does your z/VM system have?  That's not 
enough, get more.
- How big is your Linux guest?
- Does it really need to be that big?  You should try shrinking it.
- Why did you make it bigger?  I told you to shrink it.
- I'm closing this problem.  Open a new one when you get a z/VM performance 
monitor.  (I wish I could say this one.)

I'm seriously considering starting to tell people that "If you don't have a 
performance monitor, you don't really have a performance problem."  Someone at 
the z/VM and Linux T3 asked me if they could use that with their customers.  I 
told them to go ahead.
</vent>

Mark Post

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