On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:20:01 -0700, Charles Mills ([email protected])
wrote about "Re: REGION=0M leads to CPU through the roof" (in
<[email protected]>):

> ELEVEN MINUTES of CPU time to manage the stack and heap???

It can happen when memory is in a lot of fragments.

> Something is very wrong here. It's either a flaw in the measurement
> process or something is very wrong in LE, MVS, etc. If it is eleven
> minutes of heap management then I would say that is a PMRable problem.

Indeed.

But if the memory is being referenced (i.e. committed) when the memory
management routines a trying to consolidate fragments, there could also
be a lot of paging -- and paging really slows things down.

> I would be checking my work -- the measurement process -- and then
> reporting the problem to IBM.

   "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!"
   "Well don't do that."

:-)
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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