Re: Additional SWAP recommendations

2016-11-29 Thread Barton Robinson
Yah, I've yet to see any data justifying wasting disk (except to get a lunch from your disk vendor) for swap space instead of just moving the extra disks to be part of the paging subsystem. If anybody has any data that they think justifies this position, please send it. VDISK gets paged out to

Re: Additional SWAP recommendations

2016-11-29 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 11/21/2016 at 09:35 AM, "Beesley, Paul" wrote: > Hi > > A couple of our z/Linux servers running under z/VM are apparently short on > swap space and I*ve been asked to increase it. > The PROFILE EXEC has 2 SWAPGEN statements to define 2 x 768MB swap VDisks. > > I

Re: Additional SWAP recommendations

2016-11-21 Thread Willemina Konynenberg
swap. From: "Beesley, Paul" <paul.bees...@atos.net> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 11/21/2016 09:35 AM Subject: Additional SWAP recommendations Sent by:Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> Hi A couple of our z/Linux servers running under

Re: Additional SWAP recommendations

2016-11-21 Thread Karl Kingston
I would not do that. Can you increase the guest machine size?You want to be at a point where you barely swap. From: "Beesley, Paul" <paul.bees...@atos.net> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 11/21/2016 09:35 AM Subject: Additional SWAP reco

Additional SWAP recommendations

2016-11-21 Thread Beesley, Paul
Hi A couple of our z/Linux servers running under z/VM are apparently short on swap space and I’ve been asked to increase it. The PROFILE EXEC has 2 SWAPGEN statements to define 2 x 768MB swap VDisks. I was planning on using defining additional Vdisk as follows: Def vfb-512 – allocate 1GB