And I'm just a programmer learning S/390.

But let's assume that i've defined all my 3 LPAR's has non-capped, and that my 
Linux LPAR now get's 15% of the physical CPU resources. How would Debian Linux 
behave?! How would it assume that instead of 400 bogomips it now has acess to 
600? Is it possible?

Many thanks


ATTENTION:
is it possible to replace the send value with the mailing-list address?
every time i do a Reply (as i usually do) it assumes the person who has sent 
the email, not the ML address.



On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:01:36 -0500
"Richard Pinion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I don't think that would cause a problem since you've defined the LPAR to 
> receive only 10% of the available physical processor(s).
> One other thing to check on, is the Linux LPAR capped?  If the LPAR is Capped 
> then it will never get more than 10%, but if you didn't specify Capped, the 
> Linux LPAR could consume more than 10%, if it were available.
> 
> For example, lets say at this point in time the physical processor(all LPARS) 
> is not 100% busy and the Linux LPAR is using its 10% and let's say your have 
> a z/OS LPAR that has been allocated 90% but is only using 10% of the 90%.  If 
> the Linux LPAR needs more MIPS, then the PR/SM microcode would allow it to 
> take whatever it needs(within the limits of the total physical MIPS 
> available).  But if the z/OS LPAR needs more MIPS they would be stolen from 
> the Linux LPAR.  It's very similar to the CPU load balancing that has been 
> traditionally used in MVS, OS/390, and z/OS, just at the hardware level.
> 
> Have you ever heard of a software product called Hercules?  It is a software 
> emulator of the S/360, S/370, and S/390 machines.
> Hercules can run on an Intel box running either Linux or some variant of 
> Windows (the windows environment requires another layer of software called 
> Cygwin).   One can run IBM mainframe O/S's under Hercules just like they are 
> on the real thing.  There's now problem running Linux/390 since it is 
> basically free.  But there are licensing issues for OS/390, z/OS, and z/VM.  
> I am running my Debian Linux/390 on Hercules right now.  Once I get all the 
> bugs out I can move it up to the Big Iron.  If you would like more 
> information on Hercules I can tell you what I know, but I'm far from an 
> expert in Hercules and for that fact Linux too, I'm just IBM mainframe System 
> Programmer learning Linux.
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