Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-27 Thread Gary M. Dennis
Thanks for the response on the IUCV questions. I have included below item 6 from the thread origin and a snippet from John Baker's response. Maybe I should have placed more emphasis on item 6. The server machine is going to be updating the buffer areas in all the connected client machines.

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 12:09 EDT, Gary M. Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have included below item 6 from the thread origin and a snippet from John Baker's response. Maybe I should have placed more emphasis on item 6. The server machine is going to be updating the buffer areas in

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-27 Thread Gary M. Dennis
Alan, Thanks. Especially for 5 through 9. On 8/27/08 12:37 PM, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand why you want to use temporary connections. I don't. The original idea was to have connections for each guest active all the time **so long as the associated overhead would

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-27 Thread John P. Baker
@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture? Thanks for the response on the IUCV questions. I have included below item 6 from the thread origin and a snippet from John Baker's response. Maybe I should have placed more emphasis on item 6. The server machine is going

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 10:04 EDT, John P. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, let's say that we create an *NOTIFY system service. A virtual machine, appropriately authorized is allowed to connect to the *NOTIFY service, and by sending properly constructed messages, register its

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-26 Thread David Boyes
1. Does IUCV infrastructure overhead specifically associated with number of connections become prohibitive at some well known point? There is a limit to the maximum number of connections (a parm on the IUCV statement in the directory entry; I think the max value for that parm is 64K, but check

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-26 Thread Mike Walter
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IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-25 Thread Gary M. Dennis
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

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-25 Thread Barton Robinson
Message - From: Gary M. Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture? Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:23:49 -0500 Assumptions: 0. A VM server machine 1. A cluster of client virtual machines (possibly thousands) 2. n buffers are allocated

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-25 Thread dave
: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture? Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:13:20 -0800 Sounds like there is a need for decent performance monitoring. dave wrote: Hi, Gary. Well, there is no such thing as a free lunch, so establishing *large* numbers of IUCV connections between virtual

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-25 Thread Jim Bohnsack
problems. The server would have to have enough resources available to process all of the traffic in an acceptable amount of time Good luck. - Original Message - From: Gary M. Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture? Date: Mon

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-25 Thread John P. Baker
/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary M. Dennis Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 1:24 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture? Assumptions: 0. A VM server machine 1. A cluster of client virtual machines (possibly thousands) 2. n

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-25 Thread Alan Ackerman
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:23:49 -0500, Gary M. Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] com wrote: 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

Re: IUCV - What's wrong with this picture?

2008-08-25 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 08/25/2008 at 10:11 EDT, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, there is no such thing as a free lunch, so establishing *large* numbers of IUCV connections between virtual machines does cost something. Control blocks must be allocated, must be managed by CP, interrupts fielded, etc.