>Q3-00006(00000) EXPAN-002 E3-00001(00000) This says that when you looked there was one sitting in the E-list. The rest says that 67% of storage is in use by in-queue virtual machines. Knowing that over time Linux will use all memory you give it, the question is whether the remaining free storage is enough to convince CP that it is wise to take on more work. It is not really the 33% because your (default) SRM parameters may tell it to use only part of your storage for Q3 virtual machines.
Do not listen to the end-users or application folks who tell you how big the virtual machine must be if they come from an Intel machine. These machines were not sized by need but by catalogue or budget. On Intel too much memory probably does not hurt, but for virtual machines it helps to make them lean. Look at my apache servers: <USERID> %CPU %CP %EM ISEC PAG WSS RES UR PGES SHARE VMSIZE TYP,CHR,STAT SYSTEM 3.8 3.8 .00 .00 .00 0 15K .0 4G ..... 2G SYS, VMRTM .16 .12 .03 .00 .00 366 387 .0 194 3%A 32M VUS,QDS,SIMW GWA80805 .02 .00 .01 .00 .00 2578 2578 .0 666 100 20M VUS,IAB,DISP GWA80806 .01 .00 .01 .00 .00 1460 1460 .0 1884 100 20M VUS,IAB,IDLE GWA80807 .01 .00 .01 .00 .00 1429 1429 .0 1911 100 20M VUS,IAB,IDLE GWA80803 .01 .00 .01 .00 .00 1759 1759 .0 598 100 20M VUS,IAB,IDLE GWA80804 .01 .00 .01 .00 .00 1513 1513 .0 751 100 20M VUS,IAB,IDLE GWA80808 .01 .00 .01 .00 .00 1226 1226 .0 332 100 20M VUS,IAB,IDLE GWA80809 .01 .00 .01 .00 .00 1375 1375 .0 1885 100 20M VUS,IAB,IDLE GWA80812 .01 .00 .01 .00 .00 1470 1470 .0 1851 100 20M VUS,IAB,IDLE GWA80811 .01 .00 .01 .00 .00 1475 1475 .0 1879 100 20M VUS,IAB,DISP GWA80813 .01 .00 .01 .00 .00 1386 1386 .0 1964 100 20M VUS,IAB,DISP GWA80801 .01 .00 .01 .00 .00 6723 6744 .0 0 100 48M VUS,IAB,DISP Even though my Linux images build a working set close to their virtual machine size, since they are fairly small CP can load them in easily. CP IND AVGPROC-004% 03 XSTORE-000008/SEC MIGRATE-0001/SEC MDC READS-000000/SEC WRITES-000000/SEC HIT RATIO-000% STORAGE-031% PAGING-0001/SEC STEAL-000% Q0-00001(00000) DORMANT-00055 Q1-00019(00000) E1-00000(00000) Q2-00005(00000) EXPAN-002 E2-00000(00000) Q3-00002(00000) EXPAN-002 E3-00000(00000) I think this looks much more healthy to run your penguins. Rob
