Kris Buelens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:-

> 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

Kris, 

Thanks for your update. Yes, I should have mentioned that I was aware that 
the number of assigned CPU's affects the weighting but, in our case, this 
does not matter as all 8 CPU's are shared across all partitions.

Colin Allinson
Amadeus Data Processing

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