Anne we've experimented with SET SHARE ABSOLUTE (with and without LIMITSOFT and LIMITHARD) over the years to cap off something that gets too capricious. But there's probably much better ways to address this. We use VM Resource Manager, which has some "stuff" to help manage the guests. Hopefully some of the more knowledgable VM people will jump into this, including my pal on the other side of the cubicle wall...
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Crabtree Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 7:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: SET SHARE RELATIVE We have five linux instances running, two of which aren't really being used, two are production and one is test. In the test linux instance, they are running a web app (which I know nothing about). At certain times during the day, this test instance will take close to 100% of the IFL. We want to back it off so that it can take no more than 50% to see how that affects them. Would it be logical to issue SET SHARE linux RELATIVE 50 since it is defaulting to REL 100? Will that do what I think and limit it to half of what the other virtual machines "get"? Anne D. Crabtree System Programmer WV Dept of Administration - OT 304-558-1494 Fax 304-558-1441
