I have successfully "drained" a page volume in the past, but as stated earlier it can take a long time to complete.
Scott R Wandschneider Senior Systems Programmer|| Infocrossing, a Wipro Company || 11707 Miracle Hills Drive, Omaha, NE, 68154-4457|| ': 402.963.8905 || Ë:847.849.7223 || :: [email protected] **Think Green - Please print responsibly** -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Holder Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 10:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Dynamically removing paging volumes On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:39:12 +0100, Kris Buelens <[email protected]> = wrote: >Since z/VM V5, the CP nucleus itself no longer has pageable parts. > While it's true that CP no longer pages out any parts of the nucleus itself, there are CP owned pageable structures that may be paged out on the target volume. The bulk of these are pageable PGMBKs (normal user private space PGMBKs, containing the page tables that represent user storage), but there are some other pageable structures that are not tied to users, so even if all users were logged off, there's no guarantee that paging use on the drained volume would drop to zero. = - Bill Holder, z/VM Development, IBM Endicott Confidentiality Note: This e-mail, including any attachment to it, may contain material that is confidential, proprietary, privileged and/or "Protected Health Information," within the meaning of the regulations under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act as amended. If it is not clear that you are the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error, and any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, including any attachment to it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately return it to the sender and delete it from your system. Thank you.
