-----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Schuh > Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 3:53 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: the IND LOAD command > > Steve Gentry wrote: > >> >> On VM 4.3 when the IND LOAD was issued it returned, among pieces of >> info, the percentage (IIRC) of >> how much main memory was being used, i.e, Storage Utilization. The >> IND LOAD command in 5.2 does not provide this >> information anymore. Is this info provided by some other command or >> is it lost to the annals of >> history? >> >> Steve G. > > I do not think the number was what you think it was. It was not % of > main storage in use. It was a basically meaningless mythical number that > was of no use. That is why it has been deleted from the display.
Actually, the STORAGE number had a very well-defined meaning. It was just useless for any form of performance management. <tutorial type=brief> The number represented the percentage of pagable storage occupied by the pages of in-queue users. Since most users -- even active ones -- spend much of their time not in-queue, it tended to under-report the amount of storage used/needed (slightly or badly, depending on the workload). How many times have we seen the question "My storage utilization is only nn%. Why is my system paging?" on this list? </tutorial> Marty