Recently there has been a small bug fix for the swap behavior of Linux on System z. The following problem has been observed by several users:
The first time Linux started swapping it was doing so really extensively even though … Read the rest
There have been several complaints with respect to the RMAN CPU usage on Linux on System z. At the bottom of this was always the use of the ‘BASIC’ compression method in RMAN.
So if your CPU is also too … Read the rest
A frequently asked question for Linux on System z is which distributions are supported with what hardware. There are two different sources for this: