Re: CUPS

2006-08-17 Thread David Boyes
> Nothing I can see in the logs. > Guest is responsive. Probably not VM or Linux-related, then. > Pings blocked on network firewall but cannot Telnet to port 9100 during > printer outage. Can Telnet when printing working. Hmm. Have there been any recent physical expansion or wiring topology ch

Re: CUPS

2006-08-17 Thread Kenneth Libutti
Nothing I can see in the logs. Guest is responsive. Pings blocked on network firewall but cannot Telnet to port 9100 during printer outage. Can Telnet when printing working. Traceroute all blanks (* * *). Ken Libutti CNE, CNI, SCSA, RHCT Asst. Director of Systems Services Broward Community Coll

Re: CUPS

2006-08-17 Thread Neale Ferguson
Some questions: - Any informationV in the log files? - Is the guest responsive during that 5-10 minute period? - Can you ping the printers from that guest? - What does traceroute show during the time the printers aren't accessible? -Original Message- OK, I am a little frustrated here. Hav

Re: I/O wait times -vs- Linux memory

2006-08-17 Thread Marcy Cortes
Oh, vendor can matter very much indeed. Search the archives for my experience on the EMC DMX2000 with 4k block sizes on the VM list. Do you have anything else you can test on? Marcy Cortes This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or

CUPS

2006-08-17 Thread Kenneth Libutti
OK, I am a little frustrated here. Have a guest that all printing stops for about 5-10 minutes. SuSE 9 sp3 on vm 5.2 Cannot Telnet to the printers from this guest but can from others on same vswtich and other servers on the network. Shut down Susefirewall and did and iptables -F. No help. I

FW: SLES10 Install

2006-08-17 Thread Alan Schilla
No, we did the activate, paged ahead and then we tried formatting when we created the partitions and selected the software packages. This is the format that fails. We will try this earlier format and see what happens. Thanks, Al Schilla Systems Programmer Enterprise Technology Services Office

Re: Updated "The Virtualization Cookbook"

2006-08-17 Thread Mel Payne
Any plans for a SLES10 version of the cookbook? Michael MacIsaac wrote: Hello list! I am pleased to announce there is an updated version of "z/VM and Linux on IBM System z: The Virtualization Cookbook" on http://linuxvm.org/present/. It includes a new chapter, 11, "Cloning IBM middleware virt

Re: I/O wait times -vs- Linux memory

2006-08-17 Thread James Melin
Are your disk LVM? If LVM what size volumes did you use to create them. If LVM, is PAV support enabled? Could you be bottlenecking because of lack of PAV? "Brandt, Mark H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port

Re: SLES10 Install

2006-08-17 Thread Post, Mark K
You don't state it explicitly, so I'll ask. Once you activated the DASD volumes you wanted to use, did you (on that same YaST screen) also format them? The drop-down list has three options (if I'm remembering right): Activate Deactivate Format Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux

Re: I/O wait times -vs- Linux memory

2006-08-17 Thread Brandt, Mark H
Not enough controller cache ?? Minidisk cache turned off ..?? - the best i/o is the one you don't do .. Mark -Original Message- From: Richard Troth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:03 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: I/O wait times -vs- Linux mem

Re: I/O wait times -vs- Linux memory

2006-08-17 Thread Richard Troth
3390 Vendor should not matter; these are on an EMC frame. What would bog Linux I/O to 3390s? -- R; - Original Message - From: Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08/17/2006 12:24 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: I/O wait times -vs- Linux memory Rick, what kind of Linux i/o a

Re: I/O wait times -vs- Linux memory

2006-08-17 Thread Dave Jones
Rick, what kind of Linux i/o are you doing? To real 3390s? To SHARKs looking like a 3390? To some sort of SCSI attached disk? DJ Richard Troth wrote: We're looking at some high I/O wait times for a certain database. One engineer has suggested that we add memory to Linux to speed things up. I

Re: I/O wait times -vs- Linux memory

2006-08-17 Thread Richard Troth
No SAN in this case, Dave. This is "high I/O wait times" for CKD as minidisks. -- R; David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port 08/17/2006 10:23 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port From David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: I

Re: I/O wait times -vs- Linux memory

2006-08-17 Thread Kris Van Hees
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:57:46AM -0400, David Boyes wrote: > The way QDIO device handling works, the size of the transfer buffers > affect the amount of information that can be moved with a single > operation, which sets a maximum limit on the transfer rate for a fixed > processor speed. > > Anal

Re: I/O wait times -vs- Linux memory

2006-08-17 Thread David Boyes
> Generally, adding extra memory won't improve I/O throughput (reduce I/O > wait > times) unless the application characteristics are such that you get decent > benefits from readahead and caching to avoid buffer recycling trashing > data > you are going to need soon. For database applications (whe

Re: Mailing list / Company email

2006-08-17 Thread Jon Brock
I find that particular bit -- "taking any action based on it is strictly prohibited" -- very amusing. You're allowed to read it, but it shouldn't make any difference whether you do or not. Jon "copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly pr

Re: I/O wait times -vs- Linux memory

2006-08-17 Thread Kris Van Hees
Generally, adding extra memory won't improve I/O throughput (reduce I/O wait times) unless the application characteristics are such that you get decent benefits from readahead and caching to avoid buffer recycling trashing data you are going to need soon. For database applications (where feasible)

FW: SLES10 Install

2006-08-17 Thread Alan Schilla
zVM 5.1 installing to ECKD minidisk. We had a similar error on the VDISK swap and this is FBA but we think we should be able to run the install without swap and then resolve the FBA problem later. Al Schilla Systems Programmer Enterprise Technology Services Office of Enterprise Technology phone

Re: I/O wait times -vs- Linux memory

2006-08-17 Thread David Boyes
> We're looking at some high I/O wait times for a certain database. One > engineer has suggested that we add memory to Linux to speed things up. I > don't see it. Does adding RAM to Linux help its I/O throughput? On Intel, maybe. I would doubt that it would have a large impact on Z. Can you te

I/O wait times -vs- Linux memory

2006-08-17 Thread Richard Troth
We're looking at some high I/O wait times for a certain database. One engineer has suggested that we add memory to Linux to speed things up. I don't see it. Does adding RAM to Linux help its I/O throughput? We've put a lot of effort into sizing our Linux guests (all hosted by z/VM 5.2) to tha

Re: SLES10 Install

2006-08-17 Thread Ihno Krumreich
hi, On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:10:34PM -0500, Alan Schilla wrote: > We are trying the install of sles10 and get the boot loader and thru the > network config to the FTP server for installation. We connect to the new > guest via cygwin and ssh. We start the configuration of the disk partitions >