Re: Getting Started with zLinux

2009-11-28 Thread Justin Payne
On 11/27/2009 10:54 AM, Mike Myers wrote: Hi all: I have recently gotten RedHat's zLinux installed and running under Hercules, and a trying to gain some experience with it prior to attempting to install it in an LPAR on a client's system. I'm looking for some information on how to get started.

Re: Hugepages+oracle 10.0.2.0.4 in sles10SP2

2009-11-28 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:26:15 -0800 Barton Robinson wrote: > Martin, please correct me if i am wrong. > Large page support supports 1mb pages - meaning consecutive 256 4k pages > in hardware. These pages are "fixed", are not pageable with current > technology. The advantage is that there is one T

Re: Hugepages+oracle 10.0.2.0.4 in sles10SP2

2009-11-28 Thread Barton Robinson
Martin, please correct me if i am wrong. Large page support supports 1mb pages - meaning consecutive 256 4k pages in hardware. These pages are "fixed", are not pageable with current technology. The advantage is that there is one TLB entry per megabyte instead of one per 4k page, so that the TLB i

Re: Hugepages+oracle 10.0.2.0.4 in sles10SP2

2009-11-28 Thread Shane
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 09:43 +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > I don't see the connection between TLB misses and hiperdispatch. Could > you elaborate please? I (perhaps naively) believed that an operating system that had the ability to request PR/SM only dispatch it on a CPU that was cache (and T

Question ABOUT BACK UP : Zlinux and Domino and FDR/Upstream

2009-11-28 Thread JosĀ© Miguel Villar Gonzalez
Hello. We have installed Domino in Zlinux and we are using FDR/Upstream to back up Domino DataBases. The definitions for the type of Domino Logs is Arcive. It means, after the backup, Domino reused the inactive logs. Well, we have followed the instructions of Fdr/U

Re: Hugepages+oracle 10.0.2.0.4 in sles10SP2

2009-11-28 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:07:16 +1000 Shane wrote: > I missed the earlier part of this thread, but is large page support even > in z/VM ?. Alan ?. > I have a recollection that Mario Held from the Boeblingen labs said this > has been tested, but only for an LPAR install. And I'm pretty sure I > follo