2007/3/15, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

On Thursday, 03/15/2007 at 10:55 EST, "McKown, John"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >   The CP Directory has information for each user.  At logon time,
> > the information about a single user is available very quickly.
>
> This makes sense to me. IIRC, the VM directory is memory resident so all
> this information is "instantly" available, making for a very fast logon.

Actually, it isn't.  When a user logs on and a VMDBK is created for them,
SOME of the information in the directory is cached in memory.  Other
things, such as LINK, require a trip to DASD.  Since reading the user's
directory entry is a relatively rare event, that's ok.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott


Alan, isn't the CP directory entirely stored in a CP dataspace nowadays?

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Kris Buelens,
IBM Belgium, VM customer support

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