Using VMRM

2010-01-07 Thread Sterling James
Hello, I'm starting to try to use VMRM to handle meeting our business goals. I'm trying to; 1) Prioritizing workloads/guests; most-loved, not as much, least , and bottom-feeders 2) setting VMRM's config file to match this above list. Hoping that the highest will get as much as it needs (within

Fixed length field alignment degradation

2010-01-07 Thread Gary M. Dennis
The POPS For System z contains the following note: Programming Note: For fixed-field-length operations with field lengths that are a power of 2, significant performance degradation is possible when storage operands are not positioned at addresses that are integral multiples of the operand

Re: Using VMRM

2010-01-07 Thread Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
Hi James, I just went through this exercise along with actually talking to one of the original developers of VMRM. After much testing I found as you are finding that VMRM in terms of being a Workload Manager does not quite cut it. I too wanted to use it as a way to control the importance of

Re: Using VMRM

2010-01-07 Thread David Boyes
Having a lot of experience with WLM on z/OS this is a must moving forward and I expressed that to IBM. Actually it even goes further than just z/VM at some point being able to control the priorities of the individual z/Linux processes would be great. Going further, a real workload manager

Re: Fixed length field alignment degradation

2010-01-07 Thread Brian Nielsen
You might try this: http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=29651type=pdf The above, Mimic: A Fast System/370 Simulator, is also cited in patent application 5,751,982. http://www.google.com/patents? hl=enlr=vid=USPAT5751982id=6jAlEBAJoi=f nddq=related:P7ZYcQqpZikJ:s

Re: Using VMRM

2010-01-07 Thread Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
Yes, I agree. Now getting there is the challenge! Terry From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 2:41 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Using VMRM Having a lot of experience with WLM on

Re: Fixed length field alignment degradation

2010-01-07 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 01/07/2010 at 02:58 EST, Brian Nielsen bniel...@sco.idaho.gov wrote: You might try this: http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=29651type=pdf The above, Mimic: A Fast System/370 Simulator, is also cited in patent Not everyone has access to ACM's digital library, but the only