Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-11 Thread Alan Ackerman
Would you be willing to tell us those annoying idosyncrasies? Our shop is very unlikely to move away from Velocity, but newer customers, such as the Original Poster, might find it useful. To successfully grow a zLinux farm, you *need* a commercial performance management solution for z/VM.

bad swap offset messages before OOM

2014-11-11 Thread wallter manning
On a linux guest, we've been having OOM killer messages that I've been trying to get under control by limiting application memory but right before we get these OOM, I notice these messages:swap_free: Bad swap offset entry When OOM kicks in, I don't see swap being utilized much. We have multiple

Re: EXTERNAL: bad swap offset messages before OOM

2014-11-11 Thread Hodge, Robert L
Check the boot messages for any swap errors. A few months ago, after RHEL patching, we started receiving the following message at boot time Swap area shorter than signature indicates. The problem was fixed by upgrading SNA's SWAPGEN utility. You may not have the same problem, but if there is a

Re: sles 12

2014-11-11 Thread Ronald van der Laan
Alan, Are both the z10 and z196 part of a single SSI cluster? If so, and you have no domains specified, even the z196 may report to be a z10 so that you can do a vmrelocate from z196 to z10. -- Ronald van der Laan -- For

Re: Automated performance reporting on Linux on Z

2014-11-11 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 11/11/2014 at 01:44 EST, Alan Ackerman alan.ackerma...@gmail.com wrote: Would you be willing to tell us those annoying idosyncrasies? No. What annoys me may not annoy others, and in no case do the behaviors diminish the value sufficiently to make me get rid of the product. Like a