On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 05:36 -0600, Patrick Loftus wrote: > We seem to be experiencing noticeably less MIPS than expected on our z/OS > LPARs, and it almost looks like the speciality engines (zAAP, IFL etc) are > contributing to the multiproccesor overheads and reducing the CPU resource.
Hadn't thought about that. Would be surprised if IFLs got involved, but I can imagine zAAPs (and zIIPs) might. They are exposed to the MVS scheduler, and so would conceivably suffer the same interprocess locking/spin issues. That's MP factor defined (o.k. just a *little* simplistic). Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
