No, the first one is 2000 512-byte blocks. The second one is 4000 512-byte blocks, and so on.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yu Safin Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Best Swap Disk Strategy? On 9/29/06, Mark Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ray, > > I defined eight vdisks as swap (the max that Linux can use, so I only have > to mess with fstab once), each double the other, with descending priority > so the smallest gets used first. When I see swap space starting to spill > into some of the larger vdisks, I may increase the virtual machine size, > and/or I may re-double the size of each in the VM directory, re-boot, and > continue monitoring. For example, > * /dev/dasds > MDISK 212 FB-512 V-DISK 2000 MR > * /dev/dasdt > MDISK 213 FB-512 V-DISK 4000 MR > * /dev/dasdu > MDISK 214 FB-512 V-DISK 8000 MR > * /dev/dasdv -snip- are those 512 Mbytes each? it seems like a lot to me to have that many unless you have a lot of real memory under zVM (central plus expanded). wouldn't you want to have a real disk just in case at the end for last resort? I am new at this game so it easy to get me confused but I am very attentive to the advise going on in this thread. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
