Shared: Memory weight

This field displays the relative value from 0 to 255 that is used in determining the allocation of physical system memory from the shared memory pool to a logical partition that uses shared memory. A higher value relative to the values set for other shared memory partitions, increases the probability of the hypervisor allocating more physical system memory from the shared memory pool to the shared memory partition with the higher value.

This value is set in the active partition profile at the time that you used the partition profile to activate the logical partition. However, you can dynamically change the memory weight for a running logical partition. You can also change this value by shutting down the logical partition and using a partition profile with a different value to restart the logical partition.