Bill, You may well be correct. Of course, that permits me to pose the question of how such a condition could effectively be avoided. Ideas, anyone?
John P. Baker -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Holder Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 11:32 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Storage Management Enhancement Ideas (was: VM lockup due to storage typo) These are very interesting ideas, but I suspect (no way to prove, since no doc will be forthcoming) that the hang was not a paging issue, but rather a central storage fragmentation issue involving attempts to allocate four contiguous frames for region and segment tables. Don't let me throw cold water on the current discussion, though, I just wanted to point out that all of the interesting paging ideas probably wouldn't help the situation that triggered this entire discussion. - Bill Holder, z/VM Development, IBM
