To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Anyone use VMRM?
Leland,
I used it for over a year but recently turned it off and went back to
using staticly-defined share settings. I found it to be generally
sluggish to respond to changing workloads (although I made some mods to
make it moreso). In practice
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Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:54 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Anyone use VMRM?
Leland,
I used it for over a year but recently turned it off and went
back to using staticly-defined share settings. I found
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ARK.EDU Anyone use VMRM
So, how do you folks feel about VMRM? Does it work as advertised?
Sort of. IF your workload changes in the ways that VMRM understands, then it is
actually pretty effective. It's not WLM in that it doesn't adjust task
priorities the same way, and the formulas used to calculate when it does
On Thursday, 06/08/2006 at 03:54 EST, Mark Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In practice, my observation was that when the system got busy, it
tended to raise every managed virtual machines' SHARE setting to REL
1
(because they weren't getting the resources they needed). Conversely, if
Thanks all. That was enough to keep me away for now. I don't understand tuning
well enough to recognize problems that VMRM may be causing. (Heck, I can't even
tell when I mess it up. ;-))
So, I'll wait until some of you more edge-livers kick the tires a bit more.
Thanks again,
Leland
