As for the selection of "good old data" to be thrown out by CP:
- Linux can tell CP that it no longer needs certain storage pages
using a diagnose code.  If it does ???
- CRM 2 is a Linux/CP co-operative feature by which CP would know what
kind of data resides in which Linux pages.  For example: if CP knows a
page is used to cache disk data, it doesn't need to page it out, Linux
can read it back in from its disks.
- Apart from that, CP's selection of candidates to page out from
central storage is not as clever is in z/OS: it only uses the last
reference bit.  That is why a z/VM installation would be configured
with some amount of expanded storage, because there is a timestamp for
each expanded storage page that allows CP to select old pages for
pageout.

2009/2/10 Barton Robinson <[email protected]>:
> In ESALPS, ESAUSPG shows by user.  ESAUCD2 shows if you have extra cache or
> buffer.  If you can send your reports, we will analyze it at no charge.
>
> Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) 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//
>>
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>>
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>>
>> //[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>//
>>
>>
>



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