On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 09:50:44 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
>
>GETMAIN returns a success indication based purely on whether virtual
>storage is available to the address space within the REGION size
>constrains.
> 
Does it not check for available paging space?  Does this imply that your
job and my job can each do a GETMAIN for storage which in the aggregate
exceeds the available paging space and both will succeed?

>It is the SysProg's non-trivial job to configure the LPAR real memory
>and configure z/OS to adequately constrain max REGION sizes, the number
>of address spaces and size the paging subsystem so that page thrashing
>doesn't occur and critical page slot thresholds in the paging subsystem
>aren't exceeded.  There are tools, configuration parameters, and exits
>that make that possible.
>    
Then if you job touches all its pages then my job attempts to touch all
its pages, may I experience a failure because there are no slots to page
something out?

-- gil

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