Let's say that total amount of virtual storage is the main issue, with everything else relegated to the status of being inconsequential.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Holder > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:54 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: z/VM 5.2 and the 2GB Line > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:57:22 -0700, Schuh, Richard > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot= > e: > > >I have been unable to come up with the magic search argument to get > >this= > > >list to spit out the answer to the question, "What is the > total GB of > >virtual storage, the sum of the VM sizes, can z/VM 5.2 > handle without > >running into the dreaded 2GB line constraint?", so I will > ask the list. > >What is it? > > > >Regards, > >Richard Schuh > > > > > > > > The answer is, of course, the trademarked "it depends". > There are severa= > l > different forms of the constraint, and all are dependent on > workload. Ev= > en > something as apparently unrelated as how dense or sparse the > guests' stor= > age > reference patterns tend to be can greatly influence the > degree to which t= > he > constraint will be an issue for a given total virtual storage > size. I'm = > not > sure if we even have typical or average numbers, but I can > ask around. = > > > - Bill Holder, z/VM Development, IBM >
