I'd say it depends on your workload :-) If you are doing I/O that could be avoided with more buffers, it would be used. Sort might be able to use it, if you sort much.
I once did amazing things increasing CICS temp storage buffers :-) Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information Technology Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of phil yogendran [philyo...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 4:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Real Storage Allocation Hello, Is there a downside to over-allocating real storage on an LPAR? We will be upgrading current processors which are tired and soon to be out of service to z13's which will have 4 times the storage we have at present. We don't have any issues with paging or UIC etc. but I feel that on the new processors, I need to make use of most if not all that available storage. Some of my thoughts are; - Will the additional storage be used on an LPAR which already has enough to do it's work. - Is there a way to monitor for 'unused' storage? - If the storage is not used, is there a loss of cycles in an 'overhead' to managing this unused storage? - etc. Your comments will be appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
