Mary Anne, You'd think dump space would be related to storage in use but we have a minor problem in VM5.2 where not using our central storage frequently enough causes CP to allocate larger dump areas. Maybe it'll improve in VM 5.3.
Back in 2006 IBM support told us- "Another thought is that this second system isn't as busy as the first, so the CP pages aren't getting reused. We have seen scenarios at other customer shops where we need a lot of spool pages for a larger dump because there is not enough activity on the system to NEED to reclaim CP free storage pages that have been released. Others in the past have set up paging thrashers to keep the system busy enough to reuse those pages (this was after an SPXTAPE run, which tends to increase CP pages)." -------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 8:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What's in my spool? Ah, thanks John. One has 73485, the other 468941. I guess it allocates dump space based on, usage or something? Setting dump off shows a spool usage of 1%. Mary Anne On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Romanowski, John (OFT) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > do CP Q DUMP > and see if the pages set aside for a dump file account for the spool > discrepancy. > > q dump > DASD 2213 dump unit CP IPL pages 182601 > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or > otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you > received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send > it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its > attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and > delete the e-mail from your system. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Mary Anne Matyaz > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: What's in my spool? > > Hello all. I have two VM LPARs, each with a mod9 spool. One is at 4% > utilization and one is at 26%. I have run SFPURGER and > perfkit option 7 shows nothing major on either. Both have several NSS's > that > are the largest according to perfkit. Q RDR OPERATNS shows > no records for dumps. There are a few open linux consoles with 2-3K > records > on LPAR2. > So what else can be using up spool in LPAR2? Granted, it's not an > alarming > usage, but I'd like to know what else to watch for. > > Thanks! > Mary Anne > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
