>>> On 11/21/2016 at 09:35 AM, "Beesley, Paul" <[email protected]> wrote: 
> Hi
> 
> A couple of our z/Linux servers running under z/VM are apparently short on 
> swap space and I*ve been asked to increase it.
> The PROFILE EXEC has 2 SWAPGEN statements to define 2 x 768MB swap VDisks.
> 
> I was planning on using defining additional Vdisk as follows:
> Def vfb-512 * allocate 1GB

As others have mentioned, you may or may not want to do this.  For me, adding 
another 1GB of VDISK to several guests is probably not a good thing.  If, as 
Willemina mentioned, you're not seeing _active_ paging _rates_, I would 
allocate real DASD instead.  If it's going to get written out and then not 
referenced again for a very long time, you don't need it to be in virtual 
storage in z/VM.  If you are seeing active paging rates, then you would be 
better off adding memory to the guests and let z/VM do the paging.


Mark Post

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