Brian, when you say 'bounced the VM lpar'...did you deactivate and activate
the LPAR?
Something we found that for some reason takes a lot of Xstore is VDISKs...do
you use
them regularly?
Mary Anne (PSU '85)


On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Brian France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  Folks,
>       Back in Oct or so we installed new z9's with added storage and
> IFL's. BUT, since we were under the gun we chose to just get us up as were
> and add storage and or IFL later. So our VM system had 4g of central and
> 1.5 of expanded. Well, a couple of months later I went to the HMC and
> added 4g more to central and another 1.5 to expanded for a total of 8g
> central and 3g expanded. Bounced the VM lpar and it did indeed show via q
> stor a value of 8g and q xstore 3072m. We've had cause to bounce ALL our
> lpars several times since, even adding stor to z/OS. We've always say 4-5
> hours after a boot of VM consumed 99% of our xstore and I could see paging
> to dasd as well. This was before and after the added storage. This morning
> we needed to IML the frame and since that was done we've NOT moved at all
> from central to expanded. My question is one of - was I really not getting
> the added storage to VM until and IML was done? IF so, then where does the
> info come from for the "q store and q xstore" commands?
>
>  Brian W. France
> Systems Administrator (Mainframe)
> Pennsylvania State University
> Administrative Information Services - Infrastructure/*S* YSA RC
> Rm 25 Shields Bldg., University Park, Pa. 16802
> 814-863-4739
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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> Carl Sagan
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