Re: Gigabit interface on Linux?

2008-09-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Bruce Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's because, as Mark said, you're attached to a virtual device, and the speed doesn't have much meaning. Any data flowing Linux to Linux within the same vswitch could flow much faster than a gigabit, but data flowing

Re: Tuning Oracle memory use (fwd)

2008-09-30 Thread Andrew Gadsby
Hi Martha, As a starting point I'd recommend taking a look at the hints tips at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/perf/tuning_rec_database_Oracle.html The way that I'd personally tackle this problem is to get the DBA to run STATSPACK to determine the smallest size that is

2008-09-30 Experimental Linux on System z code drop to developerWorks

2008-09-30 Thread Gerhard Hiller
Please refer to: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/whatsnew.html ... for the 2008-09-30 change summary: updated experimental (unsupported) package kuli 1.0.1 (bugfixes). * end of message Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind

Re: Tuning Oracle memory use (fwd)

2008-09-30 Thread Stephen Frazier
Why don't you just lower its virtual storage and avoid the problem? Martha McConaghy wrote: We have a bunch of Oracle databases running on SLES 10 in one of our z/9 partitions. We are only getting started with this, so we don't much (i.e. nothing) about tuning Oracle to be a polite guest in

Re: Update mySql on Slack/390

2008-09-30 Thread Mark Post
On 9/26/2008 at 9:13 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jones, Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I can wait. Where would you like it sent? To your email address? It's about 18MB in size, so that probably won't work. Mark Post

Question about Global Mirror/XRC

2008-09-30 Thread Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
We are in the process of moving z/OS, z/VM and linux guests to new IBM dasd (DS8300). We are using PPRC XD - asynch to DR site. We had an issue with having to manually run FSCK against linux filesystems that we hoped could be helped by establishing global mirror. I am trying to get information on

Re: Tuning Oracle memory use (fwd)

2008-09-30 Thread Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
Some url's in case they help Pretty new Redbook http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247573.pdf Pointer to Oracle doc in metalink website http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0669.html?Open We don't have many oracle databases (test running with 1.5G memory and prod with 2G.)

Question

2008-09-30 Thread Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
Hi Over the last month or so we have had CHECK SUM ERRORS on 3 of our z/Linux hosts. This error stops the Linux host from coming back up after a re-boot or log off. After working with REDHAT they found that there was 2 bit over lay of what amounts to the VTOC which points to the UUIDs. Each

Re: Question about Global Mirror/XRC

2008-09-30 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
1) Is 'XRC' and 'Global Mirror' the same thing? YES. (2) I see questions posted in the past regarding 'GDPS/XRC' and z/VM not supporting timestamps. That is correct, XRC of zVM systems does not support timestamps, so you cannot recover to a sync'ed point in time, but you can just recover, from