Response to "what am I trying to do?", I'm working on a yearly performance & capacity review, and saw many many occasions that CPU overshoot the CAP line about 3%. And I try to figure this out.
Thanks all, will check the PR/SM manual for the 1~3% saying. On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Al Sherkow <a...@sherkow.com> wrote: > That 3% is not unexpected. WLM works with PR/SM to implement the cap. WLM > does the math and PR/SM does the actually "capping". If you read the PR/SM > planning guides (as Peter referenced) you'll see that PR/SM manages LPARs > to +- > 3 percent. > > I believe that WLM does the calculation to account for the possible MINUS > 3%. If > you were trying to cap at 100 MSUs and you only got 97 MSUs while paying > for > 100 you would be upset. If you pay for 100MSUs and get 3 Bonus MSUs you are > a > satisfied customer. (I chose 100 MSUs to make the math easy) > > Al Sherkow, I/S Management Strategies, Ltd. > Consulting Expertise on Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, > WLC, LPARs, IRD and LCS Software > Seminars on IBM SW Pricing, LPARs, and IRD > Voice: +1 414 332-3062 > Web: www.sherkow.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Cobe Xu Best Regards ----------------------------------------------------------- zOS Performance & Capacity Analyst E2E Performance Analyst Email: cob...@gmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
