Can you give me any insight into making more use of the swap; see below? We have had systems significantly speed up after adding memory, even though swap was not being used. I realize that swap / disk is going to be slower, but with cache and buffers shouldn't it be at least close?
lnx057:~ # free -l total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 763208 758572 4636 0 77092 592676 Low: 763208 758572 4636 High: 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 88804 674404 Swap: 1079896 300 1079596 Thank you for any help. David Dean Information Systems *bcbstauthorized* -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barton Robinson Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:23 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Performance question Best practices is to use Vdisk for swap, and reduce linux virtual machine sizes - not to buy more REAL z/VM memory unless you really need it. "101% memory useage" means almost nothing. It is not relevant to performance or capacity, and thus shouldn't have business decisions or performance decisions decided based on that number. Dean, David (I/S) wrote: > My SLES 10.1 zLinux servers have been notorious for not making much use > of the swap space, even when we lower the main (virtualized) in the USER > DIRECTORY. We may have something just not configured optimally > somewhere, but our luck has gone with adding main Linux memory and > subsequently having to add ZVM memory. > > > > David Dean > > Information Systems > > *bcbstauthorized* > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 11:31 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Performance question > > > > If your VM system is at 101% memory usage, and you are overcommitted by > about 14%, is it worthwhile to add > a vdisk to a linux for swap space, or better just to add main memory to > the linux? > > MA (Looking for opinions, thoughts, rationalizations, whatever. :) > > Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm > Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm