RE: Why separate pools?

Right, so if you want *SHRPOOL1 to have an extra GB just change it to 6084.
The memory will automagically come from *BASE, then QPFRADJ will start to
rebalance the pools the way it thinks that they ought to be.  If you want to
override QPFRADJ for *SHRPOOL1, i.e. set the minimum size to 6GB, go to
WRKSHRPOOL and set the minimum size to 33%.  If you want to know what
QPFRADJ thinks, set the paging option on all pools to *CALC, lower the sizes
and see what QPFRADJ does.  

If you are smarter than QPFRADJ you can override it with the minimum size
setting.  A good example of this is WebsFear, which QPFRADJ will decide
never does much work so it will sap the memory and use it for interactive
jobs.  Then when you go to restart WebsFear it won't have enough memory in
the pool and it will thrash until QPFRADJ moves it there.

Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group

-----Original Message-----
date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:28:33 -0500
from: rob@xxxxxxxxx
subject: RE: Why separate pools?

This is the situation.  I want more memory in poolxyz.  Now, I have to 
figure out which pool's to shrink to stick it into base so I can then 
extend poolxyz.

...

              Defined    Max   Allocated   Pool  -Paging Option--
Pool         Size (M)  Active  Size (M)     ID   Defined  Current
*MACHINE      1407.56   +++++     1407.56    1   *FIXED   *FIXED 
*BASE         6670.02    1337     6670.02    2   *CALC    *CALC 
*INTERACT     4871.39     458     4871.39    3   *FIXED   *FIXED 
*SPOOL         269.19      46      269.19    5   *FIXED   *FIXED 
*SHRPOOL1     5083.87      80     5083.87    4   *CALC    *CALC 

Rob Berendt
-- 
Group Dekko Services, LLC
 
   
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