On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Bill Holder <hold...@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Occurrences of this sort of problem are likely to result in temporary
> or permanent hangs of both individual users and eventually the entire
> system, which supports the theory in this case.  I'd really need to
> see a dump of the system in question to confirm this hypothesis,
> however.

And I think Lee has not yet mentioned how much paging space he had
allocated. With a 175G LPAR you would think he has at least 175G worth
of virtual machines, so 350G of paging space... for the moment the
next virtual machine went over the edge. I very much doubt he was that
well prepared. With that amount of space, things might have gotten
slow but there's a fair chance CP would have survived the abuse.

Rob

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