> Oh, I understand that. Makes you wonder just what the devil is going on > inside the application. I have a fair idea. Lots and lots of caching, loading of tables into memory etc going on. > As usual, the ability to over commit memory and all the other sharing and > management stuff that z/VM lets you do makes > things more attractive. The resources required just seem wasteful, whether > that's really true or not. On a z doing the I/O may be more attractive (faster? cheaper?) than cache lookup. But not in the case of SAP. The I/O would all go to the DB2 database running on z/OS. And those are the expensive cycles. Far better to use IFL and memory on the Linux side. Best regards, Pieter Harder [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537
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