To answer your question #2: Once a guest has a slot on a CP paging device it will be there essentially for the life of the guest, barring something like a DEF STOR. It doesn't look like the CMMA stuff extends to freeing
paging slots when a guest discards pages. Brian Nielsen On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:04:51 -0500, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi > > > >I seem to be doing a lot of paging currently on my z/VM 5.3 system I am >running multiple Linux guests including a large Oracle guest (40 GB >memory size). How can I find out 1) who is doing the majority of the >paging and along with that 2) I believe that some of the paging slots >are old data in other words the pages are not going away after a task is >complete how can I research this. The Linux guests have not been >recycled but I thought if they had allocated the slots that after a task >within the Linux guest completed that the slots would be reclaimed. Any >thoughts on all of this would be appreciated. > > > >Thank You, > > > >Terry Martin > >Lockheed Martin - Information Technology > >z/OS & z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning > >Cell - 443 632-4191 > >Work - 410 786-0386 > >[email protected]
