Assumptions:
0. A VM server machine
1. A cluster of client virtual machines (possibly thousands)
2. n buffers are allocated for each client virtual machine
3. Each buffer contains table elements that require
(a) Element ageing
(b) Element deletion when invalidated by:
1. lack of use
2. client machine request
(c) Compression as buffer fragmentation occurs
4. Each client virtual machine in the cluster is connected via IUCV to the
server virtual machine.
5. IUCV traffic between the server machine and client machine is extremely
low volume. Initial call, termination call, intermittent statistics call.
6. After the initial call, the server virtual machine will maintain the
buffer table entries in each client virtual machine without additional IUCV
interaction.
Now the questions:
1. Does IUCV infrastructure overhead specifically associated with number of
connections become prohibitive at some well known point?
2. Has anyone had experience with an application having a high IUCV
connection count like this? If so, what was that experience?
Again, the traffic incidence per connection is very low but the number of
connections is potentially very high.
Thanks
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Gary Dennis
