Re: High steal on z/linux guest

2017-04-21 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hi Victor, We have used the statement "The hipervisor is busy". Sometimes it works :)) -Mike MacIsaac On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Victor Echavarry Diaz < vechava...@evertecinc.com> wrote: > Alan: > > The Unix group are asking for this. Because they see the steal alert, they > want to

Re: High steal on z/linux guest

2017-04-21 Thread Victor Echavarry Diaz
Thanks Rob Victor Echavarry System Programmer Operating Systems EVERTEC, LLC -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 4:34 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: High steal on z/linux gu

Re: High steal on z/linux guest

2017-04-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 21 April 2017 at 22:10, Alan Altmark wrote: > > I googled "z linux steal time" and got a lot of hits. But, again, it's > not a z-only phenomenon. > LOL Look what I googled :-) http://www.rvdheij.nl/Presentations/cpusteal.pdf "Concern about latency without looking at processor speed is like

Http vs ftp...

2017-04-21 Thread Paul Flint
Greetings Dave Jones, Who would have thought? Have a great weekend and... Kindest Regards, Paul Flint On Fri, 21 Apr 2017, Dave Jones wrote: Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:18:08 -0500 From: Dave Jones Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2

Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Dave Jones
Agreed, Mauro. Python is not installed on these zPDT servers. I just used yast and installed the "thttpd" HTTP server. Once it is installed all you have to do is start it; no configuration needed. DJ On 04/21/2017 02:31 PM, Mauro Souza wrote: > Running python -m SimpleHTTPServer on the repositor

Re: High steal on z/linux guest

2017-04-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 04/21/2017 at 07:38 GMT, Victor Echavarry Diaz wrote: > The Unix group are asking for this. Because they see the steal alert, they want to know what is > this happen. Is there a red book or presentation that talk about this so the Unix group understand > this? I googled "z linux ste

Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Rogério, That worked, thanks. DJ On 04/21/2017 02:01 PM, Rogério Soares wrote: > I had this problem too, solved install using http instead ftp > > Em sex, 21 de abr de 2017 15:55, Mark Post escreveu: > > On 4/21/2017 at 02:43 PM, Dave Jones wrote: >>> Hi, Mark. >>> >>> Here's what appe

Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Mauro Souza
Running python -m SimpleHTTPServer on the repository directory is enough to start a webserver, and it installs easily. Ftp is a strange misbehaving beast sometimes. On Apr 21, 2017 16:16, "Rogério Soares" wrote: > I had this problem too, solved install using http instead ftp > > Em sex, 21 de ab

Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Itschak Mugzach
What is the driving system, the one zpdt runs under? I tried it under cantos 7 and the problems were iptables (try iptables -F) and setenforce 0. ITschak נשלח מה-iPad שלי ‫ב-21 באפר׳ 2017, בשעה 22:01, ‏‏Rogério Soares ‏ כתב/ה:‬ > I had this problem too, solved install using http instead ftp

Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 4/21/2017 at 03:01 PM, Rogério Soares wrote: > I had this problem too, solved install using http instead ftp Working around a problem and not reporting it to get it fixed doesn't help the rest of the community. I understand the need to get the job done, but please follow up with a bug

Re: High steal on z/linux guest

2017-04-21 Thread Victor Echavarry Diaz
Alan: The Unix group are asking for this. Because they see the steal alert, they want to know what is this happen. Is there a red book or presentation that talk about this so the Unix group understand this? Thanks, Victor Echavarry System Programmer Operating Systems EVERTEC, LLC -Origin

Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Hamilton, Robert
Mark: That was the only way I tried to install...burned the ISO to a DVD and installed from it. None of the other methods worked for me; didn't have an FTP server I could access with the ISO, and the HMC DVD drive was the most straightforward, anyway. The "integrated ASCII console" was ok, but

Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Rogério Soares
I had this problem too, solved install using http instead ftp Em sex, 21 de abr de 2017 15:55, Mark Post escreveu: > >>> On 4/21/2017 at 02:43 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > > Hi, Mark. > > > > Here's what appears to be the actual error, from y2log: > > > > File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on med

Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 4/21/2017 at 02:43 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > Hi, Mark. > > Here's what appears to be the actual error, from y2log: > > File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium > 'ftp://ibmsys1@10.0.0.100/%2Fmnt' > > Some more background: > > Install is on a zPDT system > On the FTP server the fil

Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Mark. Here's what appears to be the actual error, from y2log: File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium 'ftp://ibmsys1@10.0.0.100/%2Fmnt' Some more background: Install is on a zPDT system On the FTP server the file SLE-12-SP2-Server-DVD-s390x-GM-DVD1.iso is loopback mounted on /mnt Th

Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 4/21/2017 at 01:23 PM, "Hamilton, Robert" wrote: > Had that problem several times while installing 12SP2 into an LPAR. Just curious, but did you consider using the functionality to install from the HMC DVD reader? If so, why/why not, etc.? Mark Post --

Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
I have with no issues. Other than us getting out of our proxy server to SUSE. I ended up having to use SMT internally. Could that be the problem for you? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave Jones Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 10:

Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 4/21/2017 at 01:18 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > Hello, all. > > Has anyone here been able to successfully install the latest SuSE SLES > 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4? I'm trying to do so today, but I'm getting a "can't > create the repository" error during the install process. Having information from

Re: Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Hamilton, Robert
Dave: Had that problem several times while installing 12SP2 into an LPAR. The last time I tried, it got past all those andstill failed. I hate to say it, but all I can tell you is to retry. R; Rob Hamilton Sr. System Engineer Chemical Abstracts Service >-Original Message- >From:

Installing SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4

2017-04-21 Thread Dave Jones
Hello, all. Has anyone here been able to successfully install the latest SuSE SLES 12 SP 2 on z/VM 6.4? I'm trying to do so today, but I'm getting a "can't create the repository" error during the install process. Thanks, and have a good one. DJ -- ITC-email-sig *David Jones **|**Managing Directo

z/VM 6.3 End of Service Reminder

2017-04-21 Thread Bill Bitner
z/VM 6.3 will achieve end of service on December 31, 2017, leaving only z/VM 6.4 in service. (z/VM 6.2 is EOS on June 30, 2017.) For full information on life cycle see: https://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle/ For clients who missed this or clients looking for guidance on migration to z