Ron, Thanks for the reply. That might explain the behaviour. In any case, I will be monitoring the page dataset usage and the number of Aux Slots used through Friday, so we'll see if the jump in page slots in use is slowed down, or increases at the same rate. I'll try to remember to post the results Friday afternoon.
Eric ---- Ron Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric, > > I don't think that this is unusual behavior. > > My SWAG on this is that the less busy pages in DB2, and other addresses, are > being paged out during overnight batch, and then paged in again the next day > when online becomes active. > > At this point you end up with is a copy of unchanged pages in storage and > still out on AUX. until the pages in CS are changed, or pages on AUX > overwritten you have two copies which allow page out/in to operate by a > "bit-flick" rather than actual page movement. > > The jump to 20% is probably you working set. There will probably be a small > jump each following day as different pages are stolen, but not the order of > magnitude you see on the first day. > > Caveat Emptor - it's still a SWAG. > > Ron > -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Washington University St Louis, Missouri 314-935-3418 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
