Our RVA is full and we don't know how to get the usage back down. The IBM
documentation is ... less than helpful.
We've offline'd 6 (out of 256) DASD, which dropped the usage by 0.5%, but
we'd like it to get it little further down than that.
Boths LPARs hung (got hanged?) and refused to re-IPL, with no error
message at all.
We have tried deallocating DASD ('DETach 10E0 SYSTEM') and labelling
them as "FREE", or putting a clean CMS filesystem on, but to no avail. In
fact, everything tried so far makes the usage creep up by 0.02% every hour
or so.
I'm told "IXFP" might be the thing we need, but I'm also told it only
knows about CMS filesystems, so Linux deleted stuff never gets freed up by
the RVA.
Any help much appreciated.
Ashley Chaloner.
and just for the archives, in case anyone searches for this, before the
system hang, we got the "information" message "CACHE MODERATE ALERT",
which in our case meant disk unit full, which then made both LPARs fall
over. And refuse to re-IPL.
