Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems? - Possible Solution

2010-08-18 Thread Daniel Tate
05 08, Gothenburg  Sweden >>> >>> Telephone: +46-31-3233569 >>> E-mail: tore.agb...@volvo.com >>> >>> http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/ >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.mari

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-08-11 Thread Daniel Tate
hone: +46-31-3233569 >> E-mail: tore.agb...@volvo.com >> >> http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/ >> >> -Original Message----- >> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Shane G >> Sent: den 28 juli 2010 02:51 >>

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-08-11 Thread Daniel Tate
390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Shane G > Sent: den 28 juli 2010 02:51 > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems? > > Hmmm - high "sys" CPU usage, high loadavg, system not talking to anyone. >

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-28 Thread Agblad Tore
om: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Shane G Sent: den 28 juli 2010 02:51 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems? Hmmm - high "sys" CPU usage, high loadavg, system not talking to anyone. Smells like

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-28 Thread Rodger Donaldson
Daniel Tate wrote: Unfortunately it did not. It continued to grow and grow until oom killed in a loop. We're supposed to have a max size of 512MB per VM. A max heap of 512 MB per VM doesn't mean that each VM will only use 512M, it means that it will grow to 512M + any extra memory required by

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-28 Thread Agblad Tore
mail: tore.agb...@volvo.com http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/ -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Tate Sent: den 27 juli 2010 21:30 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning prob

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-28 Thread Agblad Tore
Behalf Of Daniel Tate Sent: den 27 juli 2010 16:53 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems? Yes, but no memory ever gets freed. The system stops responding and is too busy dumping information to the console screen to respond to anything at the c

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-28 Thread Agblad Tore
t; > Marcy > > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:21 PM > To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems? > >

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-27 Thread Shane G
Hmmm - high "sys" CPU usage, high loadavg, system not talking to anyone. Smells like it's busy doing its own stuff. If it were me I'd want to know trends for things like swap-in and swap-out rates, tasks in uninterruptible sleep, context switch counts. SAR is too granular to be any use even if

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
On Behalf Of Daniel Tate Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:30 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems? Unfortunately it did not. It continued to grow and grow until oom killed in a loop. We're supposed to have a max size of

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-27 Thread Daniel Tate
- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel > Tate > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:53 AM > To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning > problems? > > Yes, but no memory ever gets free

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
..@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Tate Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:53 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems? Yes, but no memory ever gets freed. The system stops responding and is too busy dumping information to th

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-27 Thread Daniel Tate
Yes, but no memory ever gets freed. The system stops responding and is too busy dumping information to the console screen to respond to anything at the console or network. And a system-wide panic would provide me with a core file to analyze and send off; though the progress we've made thanks to t

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-27 Thread rodgerd
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:24:06 -0500, Daniel Tate wrote: > At this point i see two problems: > > 1) Why is OOM Kill not functioning properly > 2) Why is websphere performance so awful? If you run WAS (or any Java app) in swap, performance will be terrible, as a rule of thumb; if you've got 16GB al

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Shane G
Some more info please. ... you get a OOM condition ?. ... the/a large consumer gets killed ? ... the system "halts" (explain) ?. You *want* a system-wide panic ?. If so, setting /proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom to "1" will have the desired effect on non zLinux. Shane ... On Tue, Jul 27th, 2010 at 1:2

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Daniel Tate
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Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Phil Tully
--- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Tate Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 8:24 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: [LINUX-390] OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems? We're running websphere on a z9 under z/VM 4 systems are live out o

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
:57 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems? We set swappiness to 0 and started all servers. we will see if that helps and I will look into the sp level upgrade. Does anyone have any good tweeks for z websphere by chance? On

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Daniel Tate
; > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:21 PM > To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems? > >>>>

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
Thanks for that clarification! Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:21 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 7/26/2010 at 05:05 PM, Marcy Cortes >>> wrote: > I was going to suggest a dump and a ticket to Novell, but it looks like you > aren't SP1, and so are unsupported. SLES11 GA is fully supported until 6 months after SP1 went GA. Even after that, NTS supports the product line throughout i

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
--Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Tate Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 11:28 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems? Yeah, i saw that.. problem is these same apps run on 1

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Mrohs, Ray
Set swappiness to 0. Can you just start 1 node as a test? Ray > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On > Behalf Of Daniel Tate > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 2:28 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: OOM Condition on

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Daniel Tate
Thank you for your cooperation." > > > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > Daniel Tate > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 8:24 AM > To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu > Subject: [LINUX-390] OOM Condition on SLES11 r

Re: OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
elete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel Tate Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 8:24 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: [LINUX-390] OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning p

OOM Condition on SLES11 running WAS - Tuning problems?

2010-07-26 Thread Daniel Tate
We're running websphere on a z9 under z/VM 4 systems are live out of 8. it is running apps that consume around 16GB of memory on a Windows machine. on this, we have allocated 10G of real storage (RAM) and around 35GB of Swap.When websphere starts, it consumes all the memory eventually and ha