Re: New DASD

2006-11-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 11/1/06, Phil Smith III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To add to what others have said, don't forget the QUERY MDISK command -- if LINUX123 has a problem with its 400 disk, QUERY MDISK USER LINUX123 400 DIR LOCATION will tell him more than he wants to know about the disk. And don't forget that

Re: New DASD

2006-11-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 11/1/06, J Leslie Turriff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that I'm probably in the minority here, but I like to use the MDISK vdev 3390 DEVNO rdev md rp wp mp statement, which allows one to map a volume's virtual address to its real address as the DEDicate statement does, but makes it

Re: New DASD

2006-10-31 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10/31/06, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it is likely the same left-hander who wrote the COND processing in the original OS/360 JCL. We are still stuck with that backwards logic. Thankfully we now have IF THEN ELSE ENDIF in JCL. Aren't you being a bit too hard on the poor soul

Re: zLinux experience

2006-10-26 Thread Rob van der Heij
it was not designed to allow for sharing (and maybe did not have all the stuff for reliability since it would be only that single task to suffer when it breaks). -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX

Re: zLinux experience

2006-10-25 Thread Rob van der Heij
switches. Quite often the real test is to see how many other things you can do at the same time without slowing down things. Obviously you're missing most of the virtualization capabilities when you run Linux on zSeries without z/VM. One of the things you miss is the instrumentation. -- Rob van der Heij

Re: Detection of DASD volume linked read only

2006-10-25 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10/25/06, Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would use the hcp command (from the cpint package), or the vmcp command to query CP. Alternatively, you might consider to make the link mode in the directory M rather than MR so that you just don't get the disk when it cannot be in write.

Re: Suse S390 on Hercules disk activity

2006-10-18 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10/18/06, Paul Dembry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My installation is SUSE 10 running on the Hercules S/390 emulator running on RedHat. It all runs fine (rather slowly but it runs). I notice two things. First even at idle, the CPU is burning through about a million instrutions/sec. Also it's

Re: Server Time Protocol support for zSeries

2006-10-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10/14/06, Vic Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob van der Heij wrote: There's a system TOD that is set at POR time (from the clock of the PS/2 or so?) Unless you have the gear that will synch that from true time, it will be off some amount. So does this provide our cheap-as-chips

Re: Odd paging problem...

2006-10-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
%, the Linux guests didn't seem to notice any problem. Wondering whether CP might have paged out vital portions of CMS and unable to get them in. Was the damage short enough (and the mondcss large enough) for your performance monitor to still capture the data? Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Server Time Protocol support for zSeries

2006-10-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes indeed. NTP is based on UTC which does not have time changes :-) Technically, UTC does change due to the addition of leap seconds. Since 1972 there have been 23 seconds added with the most recent added in December of last year. The prior change was

Re: Server Time Protocol support for zSeries

2006-10-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
against some set of reference clocks makes your clock less stable than the zSeries clock. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Server Time Protocol support for zSeries

2006-10-11 Thread Rob van der Heij
might need to spend more time reading (no pun intended). Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Server Time Protocol support for zSeries

2006-10-11 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10/11/06, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I understand of the announcement, it appears to me this is sort of the built-in version and uses other references than a dial-up to Boulder. If that's correct, then z/VM and Linux would still be able to take advantage in the same

Re: Server Time Protocol support for zSeries

2006-10-11 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10/11/06, Ingo Adlung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are working to provide ETR support asap, but currently this anticipated support is limited to LPAR only, as z/VM doesn't provide the required guest support, yet. STP will follow. No doubt the lack of my imagination, but I think it would be

Re: Server Time Protocol support for zSeries

2006-10-11 Thread Rob van der Heij
TOD clock is nice because it compensates the drift for you. Combining ETR and NTP is not good because the model behind ntpd does not match ETR. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: Server Time Protocol support for zSeries

2006-10-11 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10/11/06, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the underlying hardware clock keeps good time, does the Linux clock actually drift? On zSeries, the Linux system clock was supposed to be locked to the TOD (apart from the corrections by ntpd). That's because the TOD is used to measure

Re: Server Time Protocol support for zSeries

2006-10-11 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10/12/06, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm feeling a little slow; is the TOD set by the operator for each VM guest? Or managed by VM? Or, (if you have one of these features) by the underlying hardware? There's a system TOD that is set at POR time (from the clock of the PS/2 or

Re: Best Swap Disk Strategy?

2006-10-05 Thread Rob van der Heij
. Watch this space. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390

Re: zLinux User Passwords on console

2006-10-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10/2/06, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PVM3 (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a library and daemon that allows distributed processing environments to be constructed on heterogeneous machines and architectures. How does this help when your network's down? No, PVM == 5684-100

Re: R/O dasd + ramdisk rescue system

2006-09-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/29/06, Romanowski, John (OFT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone implemented Rob van der Heij's idea about a read-only-dasd rescue system that run's from ramdisk? I don't want to reinvent the wheel if someone's documented how they did it. We did not finish that work because we found in

Re: Best Swap Disk Strategy?

2006-09-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
, but it can be very effective. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO

Re: R/O dasd + ramdisk rescue system

2006-09-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
the initrd (with the drivers) and the root file system. But your skills in that area or probably better than mine. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: Best Swap Disk Strategy?

2006-09-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
the mkswap for you? I once suggested an enhancement to DEF VDISK ... LIKE name where name is the a DCSS that has the correct initial layout (because internally the structures are similar). But I think the idea is on the big pile outside behind building 250 in Endicott. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity

Re: Best Swap Disk Strategy?

2006-09-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
storage for paging. If you don't trust it, do your experiments and measure. -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: zLinux User Passwords on console

2006-09-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/28/06, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It'd be interesting to know how many of these sites apply similar requirements to terminal servers attached to serial consoles. One could make a fairly strong argument that that's exactly the role that VM plays in this scenario. It takes a

Re: zLinux User Passwords on console

2006-09-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/28/06, Brandon Darbro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, the entire point is to not have to tolerate 3270 at all, to also not have a line mode in telnet. The entire point is to have a virtual console device that is *completely* usable. Have it good for vi, screen (terminal multiplexer),

Re: zLinux User Passwords on console

2006-09-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/28/06, Brandon Darbro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some shops, like mine, have what I call strategic division of labor. I can't grab another VM's disks. z/VM is handled by the mainframe group, and Linux is handled by my Unix group. And while I might get granted such access, that makes me the

Re: zLinux User Passwords on console

2006-09-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/28/06, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Write them a quick cookbook man page detailing the steps to get a guest back on the net -- call it zlinux-console -- and put it on one of the Solaris or HP boxes. They can log in to their favorite environment and type 'man zlinux-console', and

Re: zLinux User Passwords on console

2006-09-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
of finding a valid root password. And if you care about security, you should really get rid of passwords completely and use cryptic keys instead. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX

Re: zLinux User Passwords on console

2006-09-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/27/06, Little, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That really wouldn't work for our environment (at least). Operators have the ability to logonby. The worst they could do would be a #cp logoff. Only limited by skills and/or imagination... Not that you would not notice, but when you are

Re: Network and VM connection to a Guest dropping out

2006-09-23 Thread Rob van der Heij
been discussed often on the list in detail, but it might be easier to start reading the IBM Redbook SG24-6926 http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246926.html -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

hz_timer

2006-09-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
Happy to see that in the latest SLES9 kernel, the hz_timer is now off by default. It was so easy to miss that setting. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: NFS too slow

2006-09-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
that the virtual machine is not CPU constrained or suffering from paging. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: NFS too slow

2006-09-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
out dirty pages. Some algorithms and defaults still seem to be designed for desktops where you need to retain interactive response over high I/O throughput. Tuning disk I/O in a virtualized environment is not trivial, and general recommendations that work is even harder. Rob -- Rob van der Heij

Re: Network and VM connection to a Guest dropping out

2006-09-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
logon takes that long? -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390

Re: NFS too slow

2006-09-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
the 4GB/hr into 1 MB/s and meant to say that is too low to be happy with. But if you misconfigure a system it is possible to get stuck at that rate. -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: Domino on VM

2006-09-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
as well. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http

Re: Domino on VM

2006-09-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/22/06, Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's weird. On the other hand the cvs server is one of my best behaved virtual machines. Marcy is lucky since she has the tools to diagnose this ;-)So we'll have a look when she has time. -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc

Re: RHEL vs SUSE question again

2006-09-20 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/20/06, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATI and nVidia video drivers have a certain reputation: I don't use them, but it seems not all users of either are entirely happy. I trust you did notice he was asking about Linux on z/VM... And even on Intel platform I would hope the

Re: FCP over ECKD performance advantage - why?

2006-09-20 Thread Rob van der Heij
that they can cache all their data just-in-case, at least not as much as you would on discrete servers. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: RHEL vs SUSE question again

2006-09-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
/VM, the difference between desktop and server (or even discrete server and virtual server) is way bigger than between SLES and RHEL. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390

Re: Disks for DB2 - San vs. big 3390s

2006-09-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
hoped for... -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: How to signal a Linux guest from z/VM?

2006-09-07 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/7/06, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is hcp/vmcp anymore sensitive in a class G (or less) linux service virtual machine than 'shutdown -h now'? Does anyone really let untrusted users have root access in production service virtual machines? If the question is whether someone with

Re: How to signal a Linux guest from z/VM?

2006-09-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/6/06, Romanowski, John (OFT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to use SECUSER and CP SEND, my Linux console isn't at a shell prompt, it's at the Login: prompt. You could change inittab and make sure there is a running shell at the console.. And I suppose you don't want to use rexec

Re: How to signal a Linux guest from z/VM?

2006-09-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 9/6/06, Christian Borntraeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hotplug (or udev) gets triggered when you define/attach/detach a device. Although it is not the nicest way of signalling, yes you could abuse hotplug or udev to trigger an action (e.g. by defining a virtual ctc device and intercepting

Re: Strange amounts of paging reported in VM at 4:00 AM.

2006-09-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
by servers doing nothing or other things that could be avoided. That's sad when you realize that you could have used that capacity to run your business applications. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: password about to expire message.

2006-08-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 8/30/06, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, nobody likes telnet and says to replace it with ssh. I agree. But am I missing something in ssh that causes ssh to not warn about an expiring password? I recall reading the ssh authentication libraries don't have this option. Would you be

Re: password about to expire message.

2006-08-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 8/30/06, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I were doing this in a business environment, I would insist on digital certs and not even allow the use of passwords (and disable telnet as well, for that matter). That would only leave logging in via the console under z/VM and/or the HMC

Re: Swap partition filling up on RHEL4

2006-08-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 8/30/06, Hall, Ken (GTI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it does, and we haven't, although the performance folks use it extensively on x86 Linux, and have great confidence in it. Not unlikely that application exhausted the JVM heap and someone (or something) jumped to conclusions seeing one

Re: Diag driver for DASD

2006-08-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
find a real life application that behaves more like my synthetic benchmark, the recommendation may change again ;-) -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: password about to expire message.

2006-08-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 8/30/06, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but you have an HD password, right? And you require authentication to your OS? I assume the password generator will reveal that password when you set it? Even if you forget it immediately I think it is less secure than not being able to

Re: Swap partition filling up on RHEL4 - NOT

2006-08-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
for these two JVMs. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] Swap partition filling up on RHEL4 - NOT

2006-08-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
, and if you can steer that with the system wide performance metrics from z/VM it can be very effective. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Init process consuming CPU

2006-08-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
that will inherit all usage of the children. My experience is that often cron is the one to create a child process and not hang out for it to terminate. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390

Re: Init process consuming CPU

2006-08-29 Thread Rob van der Heij
. to invoke a shell) but the CGI process would normally wait for its child to terminate while processing the output of the child into the response for the request. What I tried to say is that I would not expect init to inherit any child processes during normal working of the web server. Rob -- Rob van

Re: Filesystem type and re-sizing filesystems

2006-08-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 8/28/06, Carsten Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what you mean by dynamic, but you can resize ext3 filesystems with resize2fs. There is also a patch that allows online resizing of ext3 filesystems (that is, resizing while the filesystem I hope this does not make you start

Re: Filesystem type and re-sizing filesystems

2006-08-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 8/28/06, Carsten Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: see http://lwn.net/Articles/89560/ I may have branched relatively fast to conclusions, assuming that if ext2 does not allow resizing while mounted, ext3 would not either. The latest activity for ext2resize appears to be 2 years ago for a

Re: Init process consuming CPU

2006-08-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
. The resource usage of this child process in the previous minutes was reported for the process itself. You might see this happen for example when you stop some daemon process (part of the startup of those services detaches it from the process that started it). So it is just normal. Rob -- Rob van der

Re: snmp process monitoring....

2006-08-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 8/10/06, Joseph Temple [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me how to exit the list while I am on vacation. I want to set an away message and don't want to flood the list with junk. send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a single line set linux-390 nomail

Re: Linux UnionFS Support

2006-07-31 Thread Rob van der Heij
is neat and helps for various things, but it does *not* help you when you want to change the underlaying shared R/O file system one you start using it. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: Linux UnionFS Support

2006-07-31 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 7/31/06, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did some time ago. I had to patch the kernel and need to see if that already went into the real thing. There are some functional problems that I ran into, but I have not found endian-ness things. I promised a few folks to wrap-up

Re: MDISK vs DEDICATED DASD

2006-07-30 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 7/28/06, J Leslie Turriff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that this is also true of minidisks that use the DEVNO rdev format. DEVNO is the dedicate for when you know the device address and possibly don't have a (unique) volser for the device. Rob

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-27 Thread Rob van der Heij
Warning: another long post... What we are looking for I think is software virtualization and it just is not there yet. It's about giving each participant the illusion that he has the entire thing for himself, while under the covers you take advantage of the architecture to use less resources

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-26 Thread Rob van der Heij
of data to be held up. The alternative (file level backup inside Linux) will fill the page cache with meta data for the entire file system (rather than the content that changed during backup). Which is worse depends on your situation. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http

Re: Swap size to Memory size...

2006-07-26 Thread Rob van der Heij
compare the internal memory measurements in Linux with the VM side to draw conclusions. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Swap size to Memory size...

2006-07-26 Thread Rob van der Heij
. ;-) Yeah, performance monitoring and capacity planning Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] Bad Linux backups

2006-07-25 Thread Rob van der Heij
, backup the (now frozen) first R/W layer, and then merge any updates during the backup back into the first R/W layer. This is neat because it's file level, but there may be a performance issue when files need to be copied up. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 7/24/06, Dominic Coulombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in *theory* you can do live backup of machines with journaled filesystems (at least ext3) without any problem. Stop dreaming. Not even in theory - at least not my theory. Linux will repair filesystems from journal after recovering your

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 7/24/06, Carsten Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that is what the device-mapper snapshot target is for: a) make a snapshot, which is very fast because it does not actually copy data b) use dd to copy the snapshot to a backup dasd while writing to the original disk c) destroy the snapshot

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 7/24/06, Dominic Coulombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry, but we managed to do live backup of our systems without any problem. We restored a lot of backup and all were recoverable without any problem. Even when data was stored on LVM volumes. You've been lucky. That sometimes

Re: Kernel update 2.6.5-7.267 s390x

2006-07-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
that IPLs from SCSI. Might have made sense for Novell to be more specific rather that raise this as a required fix related to this kernel. If have a feeling it might pull a lot of other service in which non-SCSI folks otherwise would not care about. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 7/24/06, Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It strikes me that file-level backups are generally a lot easier to work with, and use less archival media. File level backup is great for oops backup when you erased a few files and want them back. I am not sure whether you ever tried to

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 7/24/06, Stahr, Lea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are standard image systems that I can clone from a master and have in production in 2 hours. But what if its not standard? Then I have customizations that are lost. Such an approach does require discipline to properly register what you

Re: CentOS DASD format

2006-07-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
. But is dasda indeed online? Is the device driver module loaded? -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Kernel update 2.6.5-7.267 s390x

2006-07-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
it? For n=2 that improvement was already with earlier releases. I have read that discussion several times but the nice improvement was not obvious to me. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: SLES10 GA

2006-07-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 7/18/06, Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There will be NO further 31-bit (32-bit) distros (the s390 versions) for the mainframe. IBM announced months ago that from now on only patches for the s390x (64-bit) would be made I believe you were corrected on this already

Re: SLES10 GA

2006-07-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 7/19/06, Carsten Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the folks in Boeblingen don't try compilation for s390 and don't test it on 32-bit anymore, we can expect some more problems in that area. I have seen such things already with dependencies on new hardware that can not be fully

Re: snmp process monitoring....

2006-07-13 Thread Rob van der Heij
is starting this processes, I have a slight feeling they will also check their presence already and act upon problems. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: starting apache

2006-07-11 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 7/11/06, Rick Troth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider what Kris said about the '-i' flag on 'sudo'. It appears there's no such flag in the sudo that I have with SuSE so I can't tell. I believe my approach with coding su for one command is similar in effect? And even the auditing is as

Re: starting apache

2006-07-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
server on the Linux server. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX

Re: starting apache

2006-07-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
configuration files that you may not all protect. IMHO letting people run this under sudo only provides the illusion of security. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: starting apache

2006-07-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
you did what, and sometimes why you did it. It also helps to educate colleagues after you've been called in the middle of the night. I just don't give much for restricting root access that way. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: So what are the major points of improvement in SLES10?

2006-07-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
the format used in the lastest Linux kernels use the new format that only works on z/VM 5.2, whether your virtual machine is large or small. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX

Re: sharing filesystems

2006-06-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
system that could deal with this, we would have a pretty fast disk device for shared data. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: SuSE Linux Benchmark

2006-06-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 6/22/06, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd rather see a benchmark involving Oracle on the Z and the Java app on the {pSeries,iSeries,Sun} and if you can find a decent Opteron box, that too. That would make sense. And if it has to be all on zSeries, we learned that it does help

Re: SuSE Linux Benchmark

2006-06-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
a wait by counting with very small steps). In that case your measurement is not very useful this way. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Swapped or not?

2006-06-20 Thread Rob van der Heij
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Re: Non responsive Linux Guest now and then

2006-06-19 Thread Rob van der Heij
eating a big chunk of memory as well. I would expect one of them sitting in E3 now and then. If you care to share some monitor data with me, we could validate these assumptions. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: Linux guest console via another guest?

2006-06-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
the covers to get hold of the disk. Very easy. Rob-- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: INTRA_PARALLEL and z/VM

2006-06-09 Thread Rob van der Heij
with enough virtual processors. Whether the application is up to using that is indeed another matter. When DB2 is capable to use multiple CPUs and you think you are CPU constrained, that may make sense if you don't need it on other virtual machines. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc

Re: Mounting ext3 disk read-only as ext2

2006-06-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
night trying to understand why file transfer would fail after so many MB (eventually the data gets discarded and is seen as corrupted disk). -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390

Re: Silly question DASD reserve / release.

2006-06-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
for the 2G constraint with earlier z/VM releases running large Linux guests. For those installations it could be an advantage to migrate back to a single LPAR (and avoid the trouble with linking from different LPARs as well). Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: create a z-linux test system

2006-06-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
not helpful in getting management backing for your Linux project). Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: create a z-linux test system

2006-06-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
their unused z/OS-test LPAR for Linux (which had access to all production MVS packs). That is probably not a good idea because Linux will see all the packs the LPAR can access. The dasd= parameter provides no protection. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: Educational Announcement - z/VM zLinux performance tuning

2006-06-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
at Velocity Software's educational facility in Mountain View, California (Silicon Valley). http://velocitysoftware.com/workshop.html; for details. -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX

Re: Booting into Single User Mode (init 1)

2006-05-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
in Boeblingen to allow the PARM option to specify additional options. But each time I have the kernel source handy I forget to look whether it was already published... Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: Question about sysctl.conf

2006-05-23 Thread Rob van der Heij
it must be faster... Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390

Re: IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition

2006-05-23 Thread Rob van der Heij
IBM has no plans to make WAS CE available on Linux on System z. I could see some value in potential hardware sales for IBM if peope would be able to download and try WAS on System z. Rob -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: s/390 hypervisor filesystem

2006-05-21 Thread Rob van der Heij
nor z/OS). Normally you'd use z/VM or z/OS to capture PR/SM CPU usage numbers on LPAR level and use that for capacity planning. If you only run Linux on the machine, this driver allows you to capture that data from PR/SM. Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com

Re: Poor transfer rates between z/VM Linux guests on VSWITCH

2006-05-18 Thread Rob van der Heij
to the conclusion both mini disk cache and CPU contention between the two virtual machines explained the behaviour. Did you miss those posts? Rob -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/ -- For LINUX-390

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