If the page has not been referenced in 10 minutes, but is not paged out, I would expect it to be included in the 101%. Try not to focus so much on the extraneous info and address the question, if I am using a huge amount of memory, is it more helpful to use vdisk or guest memory? MA
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Barton Robinson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > z/VM Memory usage, what do you think it means? If a page of a virtual > machine is in storage, but has not been referenced in 10 minutes, is that > part of your "percent used"? > Likely you don't know the answer and the source of your information doesn't > either. So if that's the case, what information are you using to make > decisions? > > > > > Mary Anne Matyaz wrote: > > I know I'm probably going to regret this, but, how can that be? I said VM >> memory usage, right? >> Not Linux.... >> MA >> >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Barton Robinson < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>
