The particular machine is going to be used at IBM's Gaithersburg facility for 
about 1 week's testing. The other period mentioned  included setup and 
breakdown times. We do not need to worry about the SET MAXUSERS command, we 
have it constrained by the number of userids in the directory.

Regards,
Richard Schuh

 -----Original Message-----
From:   The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  On Behalf Of 
Alan Altmark
Sent:   Monday, July 10, 2006 1:09 PM
To:     [email protected]
Subject:        Re: Paging Space Question

On Monday, 07/10/2006 at 11:54 MST, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> This system is going to be around for only 2+ weeks supporting some 
annual 
> testing that we do. Its workload will be pretty focused and it will not 
grow 
> (at least this year). The thing I was wondering about is whether CP 
keeps track 
> of the storage allocations of all users and the sizes of all data spaces 
and, 
> when that total is equal to the available page space, refuses to create 
another 
> userid or dataspace.

CP will keep absorbing more work until you thrash the system to death or 
he runs out of paging space.  FYI, we are looking at various ways to 
eliminate configuration-related abends altogther.  Maybe generate a 
marquee of "The Sysprog is a Dope" on the tape drive displays....  :-)

Until then you can SET MAXUSERS at the point you feel the system can't 
tolerate any more users, based on performance data or some sort of 
transaction monitor to gauge response times.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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