You didn't say how much real memory you have. Presumably less than 60G :) You either add enough real memory or you add enough page space to hold them all (at less that 50% occupied. I don't think there are miracles available in this scenario.
Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:20 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] Page Space Yesterday, we were running a test using 17 z/TPF virtual machines, 3GB each. This was in addition to the normal load on the system. During the test, which was not moving along very quickly, nothing was, I noticed that our page packs were 100% allocated, up from the usual 10%. This stood out as a smoking gun, verified by watching the performance improve as each of the ids in the test logged off. I presume that this should have been expected; however, other matters have kept us so busy that we did not do the math. I imagine that the one way to avoid this type of problem, we expect a peak of approximately 150 concurrent z/TPF systems in the coming year, is a massive injection of paging DASD. Is this the only answer or are there any other steps that we can take to help? Regards, Richard Schuh
