Re: Additional SWAP recommendations

2016-11-21 Thread Willemina Konynenberg
Not necessarily... It depends on what ends up on the swap disks. If you barely see any swap in/out activity, you don't much care how much of your swap space you are actually using. What you don't want, generally, is having lots & lots of swap in/out activity slowing the applications down (see vms

Re: Additional SWAP recommendations

2016-11-21 Thread Karl Kingston
I would not do that. Can you increase the guest machine size?You want to be at a point where you barely swap. From: "Beesley, Paul" To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 11/21/2016 09:35 AM Subject:Additional SWAP recommendations Sent by:Linux on 390 Port Hi A

Additional SWAP recommendations

2016-11-21 Thread Beesley, Paul
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 Activat