Re: Paging Question

2008-07-28 Thread Ron Hawkins
Rick, A poorly typed sentence. It should read: Pages are only allocated slots on AUX if they have been paged out and remain unchanged. There is no attempt to back a getmained page with an AUX slot. My meaning is that ASM is not called to allocate an AUX slot until RSM needs to do some

Re: Paging Question

2008-07-28 Thread Roach, Dennis
Several things have to happen before storage will be backed on AUX. In simple terms. The storage has to be getmained. All this does is update the page tables. No real storage is allocated. The invalid flag is on in the page table. The first time the page is modified, the invalid flag triggers

Re: Paging Question

2008-07-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip-- Ron Hawkins wrote: I don't believe AUX works this way. Pages on the locals are only allocated slots on AUX if they have been paged out and remain unchanged. There is no attempt to back a getmained page with an AUX slot.

Paging Question

2008-07-26 Thread james smith
This is the kind of question that should be easy to find the answer. But the obvious places do not provide it. Also I feel I should know the answer but have forgot - getting old! We have page datasets with 40% allocated slots. We do not page (have lots of free memory). D ASM,ALL But the

Re: Paging Question

2008-07-26 Thread Rugen, Len
-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Paging Question This is the kind of question that should be easy to find the answer. But the obvious places do not provide it. Also I feel I should know the answer but have forgot - getting old! We have page datasets with 40% allocated slots. We do not page (have lots

Re: Paging Question

2008-07-26 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip-- This is the kind of question that should be easy to find the answer. But the obvious places do not provide it. Also I feel I should know the answer but have forgot - getting old! We have page datasets with 40% allocated

Re: Paging Question

2008-07-26 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip Could it be VIO? ---unsnip- Methinks VIO would increase slot usage, not trim it back. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Paging Question

2008-07-26 Thread Rugen, Len
Not enough coffee, I had it reversed --snip Could it be VIO? ---unsnip- Methinks VIO would increase slot usage, not trim it back.

Re: Paging Question

2008-07-26 Thread Ron Hawkins
Rick, I don't believe AUX works this way. Pages on the locals are only allocated slots on AUX if they have been paged out and remain unchanged. There is no attempt to back a getmained page with an AUX slot. From Bill Blair's post on the same topic on the MXG Forum: quote This sort of function