On Wednesday 19 January 2005 21:57, Miles Purdy wrote: > Has anyone out there migrated or installed a TSM server in a p5 micro > partition (not an LPAR)? Mhh, I once installed it as a test, but not in a production environment.
> I'd be interested in your settings for: > Number of processors: dedicated or virtual. > And: desired / min / max. > Are you using SMT? > > As well as, > Processing power: desired / minimum / maximum > and: capped or uncapped > > My initial thoughts are: > virtual CPUs (since I'm using micro partitions) > des/min/max = 2/1/2 > > Processing power (des/min/max) = .2/.1/1.5 uncapped > I think I will use SMT on it. You only need to disable SMT in certain situtations (I once read a paper about it, but I don't have the link anymore). I can remember me that you need to disable SMT if you need a lot of memory bandwidth. You can enable SMT and monitor the CPU usage. You can disable SMT when the system is running and monitor again to see the difference. > I don't think my TSM server needs a lot of CPU power. I recall that > expiration used the most CPU power, but that it is a single threaded > processes. So more than CPU probably won't make it run much faster. 2 cpu's can be handy: 1 for exiration and one for the rest. Stef