Re: Shared File System Interface

2009-05-02 Thread David Boyes
On 5/1/09 4:20 PM, "Alan Altmark" wrote: > Morituri te Salutant! :-) Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et dulcissimum pro patria bibere. Ergo, bibamus pro salute patriae. -- db

Re: SWAPGEN

2009-05-02 Thread Martin, Terry R. (LOCKHEED MARTIN Performance Engineering/CTR) (CTR)
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Re: Shutdown REIPL

2009-05-02 Thread Rich Greenberg
On: Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:02:33PM -0500,Marcy Cortes Wrote: } >I think John has the answer. How big are your checkpoint and warm start areas? } } 9 cyl. As big as it gets. That SHOULD be big enough, so keep looking. O well. Its been a while since I allocated a ckpt or warm area. Is

Re: SWAPGEN

2009-05-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: > The pathological cases of "This guest runs away, real Swap DASD gives me a > chance to control it" are perfectly valid, but don't contradict the statement > that VDISK is better *for performance*; rather, they support it. Let me show you

Re: SWAPGEN

2009-05-02 Thread Phil Smith III
As one of the SWAPGEN authors, I've watched this discussion. I'd note that Barton's original statement stands, in the context in which he said it: VDISK has always provided better *performance* in every observed case. The concerns about "using up real memory" have never been supported by the dat