Is there not an indication of which disk a page is on? That would be
sufficient for this purpose. You would not need to know where is on the
disk. 

Regards, 
Richard Schuh 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marty Zimelis
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:45 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Owner of a page
> 
> Martha,
>    My recollection is that there's only an allocation bit map 
> on a page-extent basis.  The only way I can think of to track 
> down the page is to figure out what the CCPV value* is for 
> the page, then traverse all the PGMBKs for the suspect users, 
> looking for a matching DASD slot "address" in an ASATE.  It's 
> distinctly brute force and requires a lot of control block 
> chasing, but another approach does not immediately come to mind.
> 
> * CCPV= 2 bytes of cylinder number within the page extent, 
> one byte of page number within the cylinder, and one byte of 
> index into the CPOWN list (V=volume).
> 
>                                       Marty
> ____________________
> Martin Zimelis
> Principal
> maz/Consultancy
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martha McConaghy
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:49 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Owner of a page
> > 
> > I faintly recall that there is a way to find out who owns a 
> page out 
> > on disk PAGE space, but can't recall how.  I've got a page 
> allocation 
> > out on an old disk that is set to be turned off.  Its been 
> drained for 
> > about
> > 3 months, but there is 1 page allocated that never goes away. 
> >  Something
> > that doesn't get recycled obviously owns it, but I have a lot of 
> > virtual machines that never get recycled.  It would help if I could 
> > figure out which owns it and just recycle that one.
> > 
> > Any bright ideas?
> > 
> > Martha
> > 
> 

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