Dear Carsten, We are using DCSS as replacement of a paging device on physical DASD. Works great. I also run the production environment from a DCSS with root and /usr filesystem loaded.
So I consider it as a very valuable facility. Kind regards, Florian On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Carsten Otte <co...@de.ibm.com> wrote: > Dear Linux on z community, > > a few years ago we've introduced execute in place, which can be used to > save some memory by using z/VM DCSS segments. Since the size of > main memory for virtual servers has increased much faster than the size > of binary executables and libraries since, this technique has become less > attractive. Andrew Morton, the leading maintainer for the memory manager > in Linux, has raised the question if this is still needed. > > Who's using execute in place in their environment today? What are your > plans of future use? Can we discontinue the technology or shall we keep > it around? > > with kind regards > Carsten Otte > System z firmware development / Boeblingen lab > --- > Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; > and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. > > - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series, 1841 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
