Re: Adding DASD

2005-08-30 Thread Bishop, Peter G
Thanks Robert, always like an improvement. I'll update our doc. cheers Peter Peter Bishop Mainframe IT Outsourcing Service Delivery EDS Asia-Pacific Phone:+61 2 9378 0113 + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of N

SHARE 105 Presentations

2005-08-30 Thread Post, Mark K
I've added the following presentations to the linuxvm.org web site. I'm hoping that others will be coming soon. (HINT!) Session Presenter Title 5007Jim Elliott History and Evolution of IBM Mainframes You Might be a Mainframer

Re: Adding DASD dinamically

2005-08-30 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
Aristarc Diez Redorta writes: >is it possible to add DASD devices dinamically? >I tried to do it following the instructions on the IBM RedBook Device >drivers and Installation Commands anb I could'nt achieve it. While different versions of distros provide various levels of support for this, the ma

Re: Adding DASD dinamically

2005-08-30 Thread Mrohs, Ray
Maybe you can cut & paste your results so far, so we can see where its failing. Ray Mrohs Energy Information Administration U.S. Department of Energy -Original Message- From: Aristarc Diez Redorta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:57 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.E

Re: Adding DASD dinamically

2005-08-30 Thread Nix, Robert P.
How you add the dasd will depend on what distro you're running. In SuSE, SLES8 uses a technique that is entirely different than the one used in SLES9. If you're using SLES9, then the good news is that you can do it all from within the panels supplied by yast2. In SLES8, it's all done by hand, bu

Re: zVM SLES 9 instance becomes inoperative

2005-08-30 Thread Carsten Otte
Rob van der Heij wrote: > So what options does z/VM have then when you overcommit resources and > suddenly everyone comes to get his share? Limit the working set size of the guest, and thereby throttle it. > Should CP randomly force > virtual machines off the system so that people not just *think*

Re: Overcomitting V-Disk

2005-08-30 Thread Carsten Otte
Tom Duerbusch wrote: > If you read a page from the swap disk, and you don't modify it, and it > becomes a least recently used page, will it be rewritten or just deleted > (and use the existing on the swap dataset)? If it is still clean [not modified since last time reading it from disk] it does j

Adding DASD dinamically

2005-08-30 Thread Aristarc Diez Redorta
Hi all, is it possible to add DASD devices dinamically? I tried to do it following the instructions on the IBM RedBook Device drivers and Installation Commands anb I could'nt achieve it. Can anyone help me? TIA. . ..:

Re: 2.6.13

2005-08-30 Thread Carsten Otte
Dave Jones wrote: > I think what Mr Morton is referring to is the "execute in place" file > system technology that IBM has made available on their developer website: > ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/developer/linux390/docu/l26bhe00.pdf > > Execute in place is a patch that allows for a file sy

Re: 2.6.13

2005-08-30 Thread Carsten Otte
Neale Ferguson wrote: > xip2 is a file system that appears as ext2 but resides in a DCSS when > running under z/VM. To execute the programs you execute straight from > the DCSS without having to move the data from the filesystem. You mmap > directly to the page(s) in the DCSS. This means that all y

Re: 2.6.13

2005-08-30 Thread Carsten Otte
Little, Chris wrote: > "Also in the cards is an implementation of "executeI in place" for a > specific s/390 usage, kernel maintainer Andrew Morton told eWEEK." > > Did I miss something? (surely not...I'm not that busy, am I?) What is > "executeI in place"? Is the "I" a typo? I did that patch. Si

Re: Disk full

2005-08-30 Thread John Summerfied
Jeremy Warren wrote: cd /var du -hs * du -mx --max-depth=2 /* | sort -n | tail Use whatever depth seems good to you. cd lather, rinse, repeat until you find the culprit(s) Mike Lovins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port 08/29/2005 03:11 PM Please respond to Linux on 390