In which case my question would have been the same. Asking other people what kind of mileage they get out of their systems is likely to be totally irrelevant. "It depends" doesn't even begin to cover it. As another responder suggested, he'd be far better off looking at his current workload and extrapolating from that.
>>> Mike Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/20/08 10:29 AM >>> >> I understand all shops are different and 'it depends' >> applies...but we are curious as to the ratio of IFLs to Linux guest in >> other shops. >The question that comes to my mind is "why would you care?" My reaction is that you're trying to manage performance >and capacity by gut feel and rules of thumb. Or... perhaps he's trying to get an idea of how much hardware (and the associated costs) is required to support a planned Linux on System z project?