Hobbit problem with bbtest

2009-04-01 Thread Rempel, Horst
Hello everybody, Since 7 month I use hobbit to observe the availability of our VSE, VM and Linux systems running on the z9. The hobbit-server 4.2.0 is running in sles10 sp2. Everything worked well until last friday. In the Current Staus screen the icons for bbd, bbtest, http and the complete conn

Re: s390 repositories for RHEL

2009-04-01 Thread Mark Perry
Erling Ringen Elvsrud wrote: Hello list, I need a few packages that is not included in RHEL. First and foremost Puppet and dependencies which is at least ruby-rpm and ruby-shadow if I remember correctly. I have not found any s390 packages in the well known repositories like EPEL, rpmforge

s390 repositories for RHEL

2009-04-01 Thread Erling Ringen Elvsrud
Hello list, I need a few packages that is not included in RHEL. First and foremost Puppet and dependencies which is at least ruby-rpm and ruby-shadow if I remember correctly. I have not found any s390 packages in the well known repositories like EPEL, rpmforge or dag. Do you know any

Re: Hobbit problem with bbtest

2009-04-01 Thread Rich Smrcina
Horst, If you also notice that the graphs aren't accumulating any data then the filesystem may be out of inodes. Issue df -i to check. I will run into this problem occasionally, even though the filesystem looks good otherwise. The Hobbit mailing list and archive will also be a good source for

AW: Hobbit problem with bbtest

2009-04-01 Thread Rempel, Horst
Hello Rich, when I do df -i I see that there are a lot of free inodes. lx100:~ # df -i FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/dasda1 1313285995 1253335% / udev 30862 303 305591% /dev /dev/mapper/system-lvhome

Formatting 3390-9 problem with RedHat

2009-04-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Suddenly this morning I'm having trouble formatting a 3390-9 in compatibility mode. After formatting the device under VM with cpfmtxa and examining the vtoc with IEHLIST, it is as expected, it tells me there is a permanent I/O error. Attaching the device to a guest and formatting with:

Re: Formatting 3390-9 problem with RedHat

2009-04-01 Thread Scott Rohling
Are you dedicating/attaching volumes to this guest? If they are minidisks, then you've been given full pack minidisks which include cylinder 0 (note the 10017 size) .. and Linux is formatting the dasd label.. If they are dedicated volumes - then I'm not sure how it's going to act from a z/VM

Re: Formatting 3390-9 problem with RedHat

2009-04-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
The devices are attached, full volume minidisk. As I understand it, yes, Linux is changing the label but it has never exhibited this behavior of changing the layout of the vtoc. Saying that would imply maybe some maintenance has changed the behavior. Bobby Bauer Center for Information

Re: Formatting 3390-9 problem with RedHat

2009-04-01 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 04/01/2009 at 09:56 EDT, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote: Are you dedicating/attaching volumes to this guest? If they are minidisks, then you've been given full pack minidisks which include cylinder 0 (note the 10017 size) .. and Linux is formatting the dasd label..

Re: Formatting 3390-9 problem with RedHat

2009-04-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
The message comes from IEHLIST IEH108I REQUEST TERMINATED --- PERMANENT I/O ERROR WHILE READING DATA SET Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: Formatting 3390-9 problem with RedHat

2009-04-01 Thread Bruce Hayden
I think you need to also run fdasd to create the partition(s). For example, fdasd -a /dev/dasdg will create 1 partition for the whole disk. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Suddenly this morning I'm having trouble formatting a 3390-9 in

Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-04-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
This may be a well-worn topic here, and if so I apologize... What about GPL-licensed code using proprietary (closed) instructions and hipervisor features (DIAG, etc)? Aren't micro/millicode and zVM hipervisor vectors the new OCO with respect to Linux and Solaris on z? I can guess what RMS would

Re: Formatting 3390-9 problem with RedHat

2009-04-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Problem resolved. I didn't follow my procedures. I evidently forgot to do a DIRECTXA command under VM and when I attached the volume to Linux it saw tracks 0 thru 10016. The VM directory only presents tracks 1 thru 10016. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of

Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-04-01 Thread David Boyes
On 4/1/09 11:36 AM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: What about GPL-licensed code using proprietary (closed) instructions and hipervisor features (DIAG, etc)? Aren't micro/millicode and zVM hipervisor vectors the new OCO with respect to Linux and Solaris on z? Thus the complete lack of

Re: SUSE on Native LPAR

2009-04-01 Thread Martin, Larry D
I have made no progress. I do the initial load from the HMC and all is well. I specify NFS and point to a Linux desktop via IP address. On the desktop I have /sles10sp1/cd1 (..cd2; ..cd3; ..cd4)and I have started the NFS Server and exported /sles10sp1. All that I can get is an error = -1 in

Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-04-01 Thread Erik N Johnson
It is rather curious that IBM is being so territorial in this regard. It would be extraordinarily difficult to break into the system Z clone market, I would think. People are, I get the impression, largely stuck with IBM unless they completely change the way in which they operate their mainframe.

Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-04-01 Thread Patrick Spinler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kirk Wolf wrote: This may be a well-worn topic here, and if so I apologize... What about GPL-licensed code using proprietary (closed) instructions and hipervisor features (DIAG, etc)? Aren't micro/millicode and zVM hipervisor vectors the new OCO

Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-04-01 Thread David Boyes
On 4/1/09 2:14 PM, Erik N Johnson e...@uptownmilitia.com wrote: It is rather curious that IBM is being so territorial in this regard. It would be extraordinarily difficult to break into the system Z clone market, I would think. Not really. The PSI suit is a good example of how simple it could

Re: SUSE on Native LPAR

2009-04-01 Thread Martin, Larry D
Russell, I have installed FileZilla on my PC. Can you be more detailed about how the connection is made - from both sides? Thanks, Larry -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Jones, Russell Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009

swappiness drop_caches ?

2009-04-01 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good afternoon all, Just wondering if anyone has some input (good, bad, warnings ...) or has had to used the following two items we are running VM5.4 and RHEL4.x and 5.x sles 9 and 10 systems 1) Setting swappiness to other than the default of 60 ? Echo nn

Re: swappiness drop_caches ?

2009-04-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Ayer, Paul W pwa...@statestreet.com wrote: Good afternoon all, Just wondering if anyone has some input (good, bad, warnings  ...) or has had to used the following two items we are running VM5.4 and RHEL4.x and 5.x sles 9 and 10 systems 1)      Setting

NFS--z/OS--VM/Linux

2009-04-01 Thread Ron Wells
Anyone having problems with VM/Linus using NFS to z/OS 1.9... Only seems to work if I turn security off on z/OS... the Linux mvslogin hangs -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the

Re: swappiness drop_caches ?

2009-04-01 Thread Ayer, Paul W
For swappiness it seems that it would be set by each system and what they are doing from what I am reading.. For the cache I have found that you MUST enter the command sync first then it all works fine and a free display shows lower after .. without entering the sync command first they system

Re: swappiness drop_caches ?

2009-04-01 Thread Marcy Cortes
We found that with the default vm.swapiness setting of 60, our biggest production WAS app would slowly fill up all of his swap space, run out after 5 days or so, and crash. Setting it to 20 made that problem go away . With 20, it doesn't even creep up at all, or even use much if any. Why this

Re: swappiness drop_caches ?

2009-04-01 Thread r.stricklin
On Apr 1, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: We found that with the default vm.swapiness setting of 60, our biggest production WAS app would slowly fill up all of his swap space, run out after 5 days or so, and crash. Setting it to 20 made that problem go away . I'm pretty unhappy with

Re: swappiness drop_caches ?

2009-04-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Ayer, Paul W pwa...@statestreet.com wrote: For swappiness  it seems that it would be set by each system and what they are doing from what I am reading.. Right, to be determined for each system separately, and reviewed when the application or configuration

Re: swappiness drop_caches ?

2009-04-01 Thread Saulo Silva
Hi Paul , The drop_caches is a command itself . To have it working you should create a cron job to issue the command all the time what is not so good . About the swappiness it works in my case because that parameters change the schedule about the swap out . The trick is the server will swap out

Re: SUSE on Native LPAR

2009-04-01 Thread Mark Post
On 4/1/2009 at 1:55 PM, Martin, Larry D ldmar...@co.pg.md.us wrote: I have made no progress. I do the initial load from the HMC and all is well. I specify NFS and point to a Linux desktop via IP address. On the desktop I have /sles10sp1/cd1 (..cd2; ..cd3; ..cd4)and I have started the

Re: swappiness drop_caches ?

2009-04-01 Thread Andrew Wiley
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:16 PM, r.stricklin b...@typewritten.org wrote: My experience doing so, however, was that it opened us up to situations where I would start to see processes get pranged by the out- of-memory desperation kill feature, even though there was quite a bit of memory still

Re: swappiness drop_caches ?

2009-04-01 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:16 PM, r.stricklin b...@typewritten.org wrote: I'm pretty unhappy with the way Linux has been managing memory, especially w/rt the block caches being allowed to page out process data. I was hopeful that we could affect some semblance of sane behavior by twiddling

Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-04-01 Thread Raymond Higgs
Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 04/01/2009 12:55:10 PM: On 4/1/09 11:36 AM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: What about GPL-licensed code using proprietary (closed) instructions and hipervisor features (DIAG, etc)? Aren't micro/millicode and zVM hipervisor vectors

Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-04-01 Thread David Boyes
On 4/1/09 9:13 PM, Raymond Higgs rayhi...@us.ibm.com wrote: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 04/01/2009 12:55:10 PM: Thus the complete lack of comments in the QDIO code in Linux and the minimal formatting. Just this side of closed-source. I work on channel firmware. I

backups on Red hat

2009-04-01 Thread Jan de Wet - Business Connexion
Hi I am implementing our first production Linux on the mainframe We are looking at backups What commercial backup systems have agents that can run on Red Hat on the Mainframe Our system of choice is Legato, but they do not seem to support this environment thank you Jan de Wet Deployment

Re: backups on Red hat

2009-04-01 Thread Scott Rohling
TSM - IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager. Scott On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Jan de Wet - Business Connexion jan.de...@bcx.co.za wrote: Hi I am implementing our first production Linux on the mainframe We are looking at backups What commercial backup systems have agents that can run on Red