No hardware changes at all ("With our current config ..."). MDC is capped the
same as before (384M in main store). We did not want to change anything that we
could leave the same in case of fall-back (something that had to do all too
often.)
Regards,
Richard Schuh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Marty Zimelis
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 3:20 PM
> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> Subject: Re: External Page Usage
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Schuh, Richard
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 4:49 PM
> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> Subject: External Page Usage
>
> With our current configuration - 36GB main, 26GB XSTORE, 19
> 3390-03s for
> paging, we saw very low numbers (< 10%) when we entered Q
> ALLOC PAGE while
> running 4.4. Now, on 5.2, the results of the query show about
> 50% of the
> space is in use. Is this normal?
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schuh
>
>
> Richard,
> The obvious question is "what else (other than the release
> of z/VM) has
> changed?" Is the storage and paging configuration the same?
> Has minidisk
> cache been capped (so it's not consuming vast amounts of both main and
> expanded storage)? Is the workload the same or has it grown?
>
> Inquiring minds need to know these answers and more before
> making any
> suggestions or offering any hypotheses.
>
> Marty
>
