You might also consider using a real disk to back the v-disk for the peak period swap, so that it doesn't add additional memory pressure to the underlying z/VM system.
On 11/2/11 10:29 AM, "Richard Troth" <vmcow...@gmail.com> wrote: > You might consider a manual 'swapoff' (then 'swapon') of one large > swap volume after that crunch time. In any case, this is one where > you should reconsider how much VDISK to use. Obviously, there's a lot > happening when it gets that end-of-month workload, so remember to > include CPU and other I/O when you profile this server. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/