Hi, Here's a current swap status on SLES10 with 400M. swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/dasdf1 partition 74988 63932 -1 /dev/dasdg1 partition 149988 23064 -2 /dev/dasdh1 partition 224988 23088 -3 Does this imply that dasdg1 completely filled up before using dasdh1? Ray Mrohs U.S. Department of Justice 202-307-6896 > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 5:29 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Is 275GB of VDISK stupid? > > >>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2007 at 1:05 PM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > l.nyenet>, > "Romanowski, John (OFT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rob said earlier that after linux starts using a lower priority swap > > area it doesn't "migrate back from swap2 to swap1 when > stuff is freed > > later." > > To be more explicit, if swap1 fills up, then swap2 starts > being used. If pages on swap1 get freed up, the pages that > were written to swap2 will never be migrated to swap1, even > if if they are paged in by Linux and then paged out again. > > > So do you find after swapoff/on a high priority VDISK that > linux starts > > using it? or does it ignore it and keep filling the dasd swap? > > Yes, but you could force the same behavior by doing a > swapoff/swapon on the lower priority disk. Since there are > (presumably the reason why you did this) free pages on the > VDISK, they'll be used first. > > > Mark Post >
