AW: Hipersocket Capacity

2008-07-24 Thread Rempel, Horst
lower the Hipersocket Capacity (bandwidth). Does IBM downgrade a cpu by inserting dummy cycles or lowering the clock speed ? kind regards Horst Rempel BG-Chemie Heidelberg -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Alan Altmark

Re: Hipersocket Capacity

2008-07-24 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Rempel, Horst writes: I am a little bit confused because on of your german IBM colleagues told me that hipersocket transfers is the job of the service processor (I/O processor) and will allways run at full speed independent of the capacity setting for the cpu. The redbook HiperSockets

Re: Hipersocket Capacity

2008-07-24 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:08:37 +0100, Malcolm Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The redbook HiperSockets Implementation Guide (SG24-6816) available from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246816.html explains the common case in section 1.3: HiperSockets operations are executed on the CP

Hipersocket Capacity

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Mitchell
How does one go about determining the 'capacity' of a Hipersocket connection/interface between z/OS- z/VM? Steve Mitchell Sr Systems Software Specialist Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas (785) 291-8885 'There are no degrees of Honesty-you're either Honest or you're not! CONFIDENTIALITY

Re: Hipersocket Capacity

2008-07-23 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 07/23/2008 at 02:59 EDT, Steve Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one go about determining the 'capacity' of a Hipersocket connection/interface between z/OS- z/VM? Measure it. It is a function of CPU. I don't know if sub-cap machines run HiperSockets at full speed or

Re: Hipersocket Capacity

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Mitchell
Measure it. It is a function of CPU. Where might I find some guidance on how to accomplish that? In Therory I understand what you are expressing In Practice I dont have much of a clue about how to go about it. Steve Mitchell Sr Systems Software Specialist Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas

Re: Hipersocket Capacity

2008-07-23 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 3:07 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Hipersocket Capacity On Wednesday, 07/23/2008 at 02:59 EDT, Steve Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Hipersocket Capacity

2008-07-23 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 07/23/2008 at 04:15 EDT, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just some thoughts on this. From what I understand, a hipersocket is really a way to move data from one memory location in one LPAR to another memory location on another LPAR in the same CEC. Or to the same LPAR, it

Re: Hipersocket Capacity

2008-07-23 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Steve Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Measure it. It is a function of CPU. Where might I find some guidance on how to accomplish that? In Therory I understand what you are expressing In Practice I dont have much of a clue about how to go about it. The

Re: Hipersocket Capacity

2008-07-23 Thread Mark Wheeler
Reminds me of the customer who measured the OSA bandwidth by copying the ISO image from one Linux machine to the other with scp (burning his shared IFL by encrypting and decrypting the file). That's how one Linux (on Intel) expert proved to management that hipersockets are slower than the