Thanks Michael. This is definitely the case. Based on output of cp q vm store, there is 96G reserved. On top of the 12G physical on the guest, this explains the 108G dump size. I've used the 1.25 version of zipl to create a new dump partition and hopefully the test dump will only be 12G in size.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Michael Holzheu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 13:15:09 -0400 > Rich Paredes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for your responses Bill and Michael. I'm currently trying to get a > > cp q v store output but I'm pretty sure there is stand-by/reserved memory > > in excess of 100G. Hopefully I can confirm that shortly. > > If you have standby memory defined, this might be the answer to your > problem. Unfortunately the memory detection of the dump tools include > standby memory. > > We improved this with s390-tools-1.24.0 where we have rewritten the > dump tools code in C. > > Regards, > Michael > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
