I'm not the specialist of LPAR weigths, but my understanding too is that only the relative values matter.
Something you did not write: the LPAR scheduler will distribute the relative weight given to a partition amongst the logical processors it has. Suppose a system with 2 LPARs, both with weight 100, but LPAR A has 2 logical processors, LPAR B has only one. So tye dispathcer has to dispatch in total 3 logical processors: LPA1, LPA2, and LPB1; the weights it will use are 50, 50, and 100 2007/3/13, Colin Allinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I know, (at least I think I know), that it is the relative value of the LPAR weightings that is important. However, I just wanted to make sure that the actual values are not important in themselves. The background to this is that the weighting of one system/partition has grown to 910 so that we have little scope now to adjust relative weightings. I proposed normalising these to a 1000 total, in which case our large partition would have a weighting of 580. Would there be any disadvantage, in terms of the way the LPAR scheduler works, of normalising to 100 total so that our partitions had weightings of 58, 16, 22 etc.? Colin Allinson Amadeus Data Processing
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