My perspective on this is that swap is there to soak up allocations you weren't prepared for. Who cares about the cost of (virtual) disk allocation.
As for Rob (who works for someone that sells software monitors) beating up on someone who works for the hardware vendor ... ??? Chill fella ... just chill. Chewing up all the (guest) memory, then doing likewise to the z/VM memory (extended included) can't be good. Especially if it all finally goes "base over apex" as the OP indicated. Swap is generally cheap - outages are expensive ... As are the arse-kicking episodes afterwards. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
