I have recently installed 2.4.21 of SuSe Linux (SP3) in order to use the
Linux monitor stream support for z/VM.
Statistics are gathered into APPLDATA monitor records and extracted via
Monwrite.
The data is then processed using MXG/SAS. Inspection of the data shows that
the records (apart from
Mike Fry wrote:
The data is then processed using MXG/SAS. Inspection of the data shows that
the records (apart from the date/time fields) are all the same.
No doubt others who did play with this will know better, but iirc this
will happen on an idle server because the reading the kernel meters
The implementation of these monitor buffers is inconsistent
with the VM monitor architecture. They are NOT updated
consistently based on time, but consistently based on
CPU consumption. Thus you could NEVER correlate the
Linux activity to the guest machine except by occasional accident.
There are
I vote no numbers. Bad numbers = bad decisions.
From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Barton Robinson
Sent: Wed 6/16/2004 12:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monitor Stream Virtual Timer zSeries/Linux
The implementation of these monitor buffers
David Kreuter wrote:
I vote no numbers. Bad numbers = bad decisions.
You can have them right now then. Happy?
How about numbers that only reflect the load of computing those numbers?
I believe it depends on the type of numbers. If someone is asking me
about utilization of the filesystem, I don't
