Re: Minimum memory size for zSeries Linux

2003-06-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
> I did get the SuSE SLES 8, SP2 up at 12MB - Linux saw 8424 KB, so about 4M > was LPAR overhead. And yes, it was slow during boot and trying to enter > commands. But the swap size was 3044 KB, so it had to be doing a lot of > swapping! If you're really talking about a 12 MB LPAR, then I suspect t

Re: Minimum memory size for zSeries Linux

2003-06-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
> There is an obscure chandev parameter "memory_usage_in_k". Set this to > a tiny value and qeth will use the minimum amount of memory for its > inbound buffers (for example, try "qeth0,0xfd00,0xfd01,0xfd02,1") But if your inbound buffer is not large enough to catch the data the OSA received for y

Re: Cron sending e-mail

2003-06-24 Thread McKown, John
10 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u condor >/dev/null 2>&1 > -Original Message- > From: James Melin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 12:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Cron sending e-mail > > I have this entry in /etc/crontab > > 10 * * * * root

Glibc build error during make

2003-06-24 Thread Aria Bamdad
Hi, I am trying to follow instructions to setup a cross build environment and running into a problem at step 7 "configure, compile and install glibc". My current system is RH kernel 2.4.9. I downloaded binutils 2.12.90, gcc 3.3, glibc 2.2.5 and kernel level 2.4.19. All goes well until the 'make

Re: esql/c

2003-06-24 Thread Alex Leyva
Jim: im looking for the Informix ESQL/C, its part of the Informix Client SDK, but i cant find it for linux390, i found it for intel linux, aix, sco, etc, but not for linux zseries. thanks. On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Jim Elliott wrote: > > hi all, we are planning to migrate some systems that actually

Re: Reiserfs vs ext3 vs ext2

2003-06-24 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Jim Sibley wrote: > I'm not sure where you got the notion that I only want a router. What I am > really looking for a minimum system that I can then add the apps that I > need. Methinks you've made too many assumptions. I think you didn't say what you wanted, but them maybe I

Re: esql/c

2003-06-24 Thread Jim Elliott
> hi all, we are planning to migrate some systems that actually are > running on linux (intel) to linux390, the problem is that the db is > informix, and the programs need the driver, the info about it: > ESQL/C versions from 7.2x on should be OK. ESQL/C is now part of the > Informix Client SDK.

Re: Reiserfs vs ext3 vs ext2

2003-06-24 Thread Jim Sibley
I'm not sure where you got the notion that I only want a router. What I am really looking for a minimum system that I can then add the apps that I need. Methinks you've made too many assumptions. Regards, Jim Linux S/390-zSeries Support, SEEL, IBM Silicon Valley Labs t/l 543-4021, 408-463-4021, [E

Re: Cron sending e-mail

2003-06-24 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Fargusson.Alan wrote: > Try something like this: > 10 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u condor > /tmp/Log 2>&1 No. 1. Logs in linux belong in /var/log 2. Each run clobbers the previous report. 3. Nobody will look at it. I'm not entirely happy with my suggestion

Re: Cron sending e-mail

2003-06-24 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, James Melin wrote: > I have this entry in /etc/crontab > > 10 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u condor > > > I am getting e-mails every hour that this ran. How do I suppress e-mails to > root about this? 10 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u condor -s Read the

Re: Reiserfs vs ext3 vs ext2

2003-06-24 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Jim Sibley wrote: > In the thread on minimum memory size, a couple responders made comments > like: > > > kreiserfsd > No Reiserfs? don't need it. > > >From experience, this is an ill conceived statement. For data integrity, > you need a logged file system in case of system fa

Re: Problem: DIAG vs ECKD - Yast hangs

2003-06-24 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, James Peddycord wrote: > I will give that a shot, but now I am worried about bigger things! PAV was > turned on to ALL of our DASD last December. The linux instances that were > already running seem to be OK, but if a problem arises I will be left with > no support. > All of m

esql/c

2003-06-24 Thread Alex Leyva
hi all, we are planning to migrate some systems that actually are running on linux (intel) to linux390, the problem is that the db is informix, and the programs need the driver, the info about it: ESQL/C versions from 7.2x on should be OK. ESQL/C is now part of the Informix Client SDK. somebody c

Re: Cron sending e-mail

2003-06-24 Thread Fargusson.Alan
Try something like this: 10 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u condor > /tmp/Log 2>&1 -Original Message- From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron sending e-mail I have this entry in /etc/crontab 10

Cron sending e-mail

2003-06-24 Thread James Melin
I have this entry in /etc/crontab 10 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u condor I am getting e-mails every hour that this ran. How do I suppress e-mails to root about this?

Re: Parallel Access Volumes with SLES7

2003-06-24 Thread Ingo Adlung
Jim, > We would consider it VERY important. thanks for your feedback. >Since PAV is not going to be turned off (great z/OS performance >improvements), Linux needs to be PAV tolerant, even if it does not take >advantage of it. Linux is PAV tolerant. It just won't be able operating any alias devi

Re: slow response times

2003-06-24 Thread Eddie Chen
Ask IBM if there are memory leak issue with DB2/Tivoli-framework... or you can take a look at /proc/pid/status on all your DB2 agents and sum up all the storage used by those agents. |-+> | | "Fargusson.Alan" | | |

Re: Minimum memory size for zSeries Linux

2003-06-24 Thread Jim Sibley
>You might try turning off the DB2 agent. It looks like that is what the OOM killer is trying to do. The OOM killer is not very good at killing things, imho. It attacks the processes with the most cpu+memory. After awhile, it will attach critical system functions. (We found that out with a simila

Re: Minimum memory size for zSeries Linux

2003-06-24 Thread Jim Sibley
>Back in the early, early days, we successfully IPLed 2.2.? on >PenguinVM in 10MB. >We didn't notice until we started investigating why it was running so >slw. I did get the SuSE SLES 8, SP2 up at 12MB - Linux saw 8424 KB, so about 4M was LPAR overhead. And yes, it was slow during boot an

Reiserfs vs ext3 vs ext2

2003-06-24 Thread Jim Sibley
In the thread on minimum memory size, a couple responders made comments like: > kreiserfsd No Reiserfs? don't need it. >From experience, this is an ill conceived statement. For data integrity, you need a logged file system in case of system failure (kernel panics, stupid users, whatever) - ext3 o

Re: slow response times

2003-06-24 Thread Fargusson.Alan
You might try turning off the DB2 agent. It looks like that is what the OOM killer is trying to do. It also looks like you have a lot of them running. Is that what you want? -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:12 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Parallel Access Volumes with SLES7

2003-06-24 Thread Klaus Bergmann
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:58:59 -0400, Michael MacIsaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My two cents: > >What would be good to know is the best way to exploit the famed zSeries I/O >capabilities. I have questions like: >- How many PAV "paths" should I use for optimal I/O? > - What does the IOCDS configur

Re: slow response times

2003-06-24 Thread Post, Mark K
Tim, You need some tools that will tell you what process or processes are eating up your storage over time. Arbitrarily turning off services to figure it out could take you forever, and is not a good use of your time. (Although I would say turning Tivoli off would be a good first choice.) This

Re: Minimum memory size for zSeries Linux

2003-06-24 Thread McKown, John
I had to make my single Linux/390, running Oracle, 1 Gb. At least according to our in-house Oracle people. Then they decided that a 1Gb Linux running on an IFL on a z800 did not run as fast as it did on their 8-way Sun E4500 with 10Gb RAM. Duh!

Re: Problem: DIAG vs ECKD - Yast hangs

2003-06-24 Thread James Peddycord
I will give that a shot, but now I am worried about bigger things! PAV was turned on to ALL of our DASD last December. The linux instances that were already running seem to be OK, but if a problem arises I will be left with no support. All of my boot disks have PAV enabled! This looks like somethin

Re: Parallel Access Volumes with SLES7

2003-06-24 Thread James Peddycord
Ingo, We would consider it VERY important. All of our DASD is PAV enabled. It was enabled last December. All of the Linux instances that were already running have been OK, but I have to jump thru hoops to get a new instance created. I'm also concerned about lack of support should one of our produc

Re: Minimum memory size for zSeries Linux

2003-06-24 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:14:01AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Jim Sibley wrote: > > > > > init > > You really can't kill init for any practical purpose. > > > > migration_CP (1 per CP) > > > kmcheck > > > kvventd > > > ksofti

Re: Minimum memory size for zSeries Linux

2003-06-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:14:01AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Jim Sibley wrote: > > > init You really can't kill init for any practical purpose. > > migration_CP (1 per CP) > > kmcheck > > kvventd > > ksoftirqd_CP > > kswapd > > bdflush > > kupdated > > kinoded > > mdre

Re: slow response times

2003-06-24 Thread Rich Smrcina
Tim, How long is it from IPL to memory saturation? It almost sounds like somebody has a leak. What services other than Tivoli are running? Maybe try back off the memory allocation again and eliminate some service from starting up. If the machine comes up and is stable, there's your culprit. I

Re: slow response times

2003-06-24 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Tim Hanschen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with some linux-guest runnung under z/VM 4.3. > > After a special time some linux-guests seems to not answer on any network requests, > e.g. ssh, ftp, telnet but it is possible to ping the machine. Firstly I thought > that t

slow response times

2003-06-24 Thread Tim Hanschen
Hi, I have a problem with some linux-guest runnung under z/VM 4.3. After a special time some linux-guests seems to not answer on any network requests, e.g. ssh, ftp, telnet but it is possible to ping the machine. Firstly I thought that the maschine is dead, but that I noticed, that the resp

Re: Performance question

2003-06-24 Thread Joseph Temple
While reliability is not the same as availability, availability depends on it. The less reliable the component pieces are the more redundancy is required to be available.It depends on what your target availability is. Joe Temple [EMAIL PROTECTED] 845-435-6301 295/6301 cell 914-706-5211 h

Re: Minimum memory size for zSeries Linux

2003-06-24 Thread Cornelia Huck
Actually, you can tweak the amount of buffers qeth allocates. There is an obscure chandev parameter "memory_usage_in_k". Set this to a tiny value and qeth will use the minimum amount of memory for its inbound buffers (for example, try "qeth0,0xfd00,0xfd01,0xfd02,1") Best regards / Mit freundliche