Rob,

Heap size is set to 500M/1000M. I've read recommendations to make default/max 
the same number, but I would just be guessing at a value. It has grow close to 
800M at least once, but it always falls back to around the default size and 
stays there most of the time.   
 
Ray

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Rob van der Heij
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 11:06 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Memory use question
> 
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Mrohs, Ray 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > The cache number looks interesting because it remains large 
> while swap space is being used up. This particular
> > instance has been up for 30+ days, so maybe there is 
> incremental swap space saturation over time?
> 
> Swappiness setting makes Linux swap out process data to retain data in
> page cache. It's likely to happen when the JVM heap is too large and
> continues to grow. The old stuff never gets referenced and is
> eventually swapped out, and then later z/VM will page out that VDISK
> again. Still find, until the point where you do a garbage collect and
> re-use the heap pages. That requires Linux to swap it in, which means
> z/VM must page it in.. etc.
> 
> Rob
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> Rob van der Heij
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