Benyamin Dissen wrote: > I would expect unless you have a huge amount of memory > and a very quiet system that all real memory will be > in use in some way.
I've run into a number of situations where dumps have stressed memory. In the worst cases dumping has stressed aux, too. I've also looked at lots of customer systems and in my experience the memory situation varies very widely - from the tens of gigabytes unused on an LPAR to the extremely overcommitted during dumping - and many points in between. I would say that a "high robustness in the face of dumping" stance is an entirely valid one but one that requires provisioning to and beyond the peak dumping memory requirement. (And so it might be (or appear) unaffordable.) It's a stance an installation has to take for themselves - and so I don't get judgemental about it... I merely point out the dynamics. :-) Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: [email protected] Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
