On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:56:15 +0000, Eric Bielefeld wrote:

>Thanks Allan.  That pretty much confirms what I thought, that the paging was 
>distributed equally among all of the page datasets.  We had 3 local page 
>datasets.  One of them is significantly smaller than the other 2, which is the 
>one that went over 80%.  This is a tech support sandbox system with no real 
>work on it.  Thanks for the info.
>
Wouldn't it make more sense if "distributed equally" were defined as a
percentage of available space rather than number of pages?  (Yes, I
know that for disparate data set sizes this would distribute the I/Os
less uniformly, but it would delay the ultimate disaster.)

-- gil

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