Re: What configurations are people using for Disaster Recovery for Linux under z/VM

2006-05-17 Thread Tom Russell
t is the hardware at the DR site? No current IBM hardware runs in basic mode, so I suspect you are in a logical partition. Running two levels of VM will definitely give you software SIE processing. Your only hope for reasonable performance of the Linux guest is to run it under the DR site VM

Re: Which profile file is read on z/Linux?

2005-11-16 Thread Tom Russell
le was not executed, then you must have had one of the bash specific files in ~ already. Tom Russell "Stay calm. Be brave. Wait for the signs." -- Jasper FriendlyBear -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive a

Re: Experiences with Oracle 10g Database on Linux for zSeries

2004-12-29 Thread Tom Russell
inux on zSeries is 64-bit only. It will not run on 9672 hardware. You must have the s390x version of SLES8 or SLES9. It is not certified on SLES9 yet, but it does work. I think RHES is certified but I am not sure. Tom Russell "Stay calm. Be brave. Wait for the signs

Re: Migration from Linux LPAR to VM

2004-11-10 Thread Tom Russell
ned off MiniDisk Caching. Despite documentation to the contrary, MDC does work for Minidisks defined with DEVNO or as "Cyl 0 To END" MDC is a good thing. Tom Russell "Stay calm. Be brave. Wait for the signs." -- Jasper Friendly Bear -

Re: High STEAL percentage with Linux workload

2004-10-20 Thread Tom Russell
/hz_timer As well, z/VM 4.4 will not drop a user from queue if there is an outstanding I/O operation. This includes outstanding reads for a QDIO mode OSA adapter. We recommend to use a guest lan with VSWITCH instead of attaching the real OSA devices to the guest. Tom Russell "Stay c

Re: Linux LPAR - how to drop caching

2004-09-30 Thread Tom Russell
n if the init.ora has the parameter filesystemio_options=directIO. From the tests I have done, this support works. I do not know what other applications implement the O_DIRECT option on FOPEN, but it seems to me that bypassing the Linux cache is up to the application. Tom Russell "Stay calm. Be

Re: Will Oracle release new versions for Linux/390

2004-04-07 Thread Tom Russell
hardware. In the Metalink platform list if you look at "System 390" you will not see Oracle 10g. If you look at "zSeries" you will see 10g as "projected". regards, Tom Tom Russell "Stay calm. Be brave. Wait for the signs." -- Jasper Friendlybear ---

Re: X11 vs VNC...scary

2003-06-17 Thread Tom Russell
ou *want* a VNC X arrangement >on the mainframe. Specifically, any X apps that are "chatty" >would be better served by VNC on zSeries (things where there is >a lot of X traffic between X client and X server; with VNC that >would all be local to the mainframe),

Re: Oracle 9.2 on Suse 7.2 S390

2003-03-21 Thread Tom Russell
STATSPACK data and tuning. Tom Russell "Stay calm. Be brave. Wait for the signs." -- Jasper Friendlybear