Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Ron Hawkins
f Juergen Kehr > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 6:39 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem > > Hi Anthony, > > the presentation you mentioned in your post is one of the sources of > information we already know. Based on th

Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Doug Henry
On Fri, 16 May 2014 08:39:01 -0500, Juergen Kehr wrote: >But the question still is, if that's true who requested these slots, and how >to avoid this behaviour. Hi Juegen, We went through this earlier in the year and tracked it down to IBM INFOSPHERE GUARDIUM. I believe that some parameters we

Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Juergen Kehr
Dear Lizette, of course you're right, if your system hasn't enought central storage system starts to page out and more auxiliary storage is requested. But AFAIK as soon as there is less workload on the system, for example at weekends on our systems the paging rate decreases and so the auxiliary

Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Juergen Kehr
Hi Anthony, the presentation you mentioned in your post is one of the sources of information we already know. Based on these information we already took a dump of the RASP address space and run the IPCS commands mentioned there. Here you'll find an extract of the results. But I couldn't find an

Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
n List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Juergen Kehr > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 3:26 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem > > Hello, > > since a while we recognized that in some of our LPARs the auxiliary storage > usage

Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E]
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem Hello, since a while we recognized that in some of our LPARs the auxiliary storage usage is rising steadily and we can't find out why this happens. I seems that one or more address spaces are not releasing their slots corr

Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

2014-05-16 Thread Juergen Kehr
Hello, since a while we recognized that in some of our LPARs the auxiliary storage usage is rising steadily and we can't find out why this happens. I seems that one or more address spaces are not releasing their slots correctly. Here are some sample data from SLOTCNT recorded in a one week inte