On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:52:35 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari <[email protected]> wrote:
>In our systems (till now) we set the MEMLIMIT to NOLIMIT, we have 6G >real , and a small 6 G page >A test 64 bit unautorised application tried to alloc and set a 4Gbyte >storage, it led to an IPL wit critical aux storage shortage. >I was unable to kill the process. >Now we set the MEMLIMIT to 2G. >Any way to prevent his ? > The same way you would have limited 24-bit or 31-bit allocations. The IEFUSI SMF exit. Search the archives for more information. I forgot to mention: You should also beef up your aux storage. If you have 6G real, you should have enough aux storage to support *much* more virtual storage usage. See the INIT and tuning guide and reference for details on how to estimate the size. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

