On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 00:26, Doug Clark wrote: > I am running SuSE Linux in an LPAR. And according to the SuSE documentation > "installation using ssh (text mode) recommends 128+ MB of memory" be > assigned to the LPAR. I have 128 MB of central memory assigned and another > 128 MB of expanded memory assigned.
If you run Linux in LPAR rather than on z/VM, I don't see a reason to have expanded memory instead instead of adding that to the allocated central memory. No swapping is better than fast swapping. The total of 256 MB is not very much if you have a justification to carve an LPAR for Linux already. If you're going to do serious work in the Linux system then making it smaller would probably hurt you soon. And yes, the memory is wasted when the Linux system is idle. That's the drawback of running in LPAR rather than on z/VM where you share memory resources and have VM page out the working set of idle Linux guests. Rob
