No, they don't! If they did, I have some lpars I would like to omit....might save a million here and there.
Bob Richards VP, Enterprise Technologist Enterprise Technology Infrastructure SunTrust Banks, Inc. (404) 575-2798 Seeing beyond money (sm) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 3:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Capping in Z890 Thomas H Puddicombe wrote: > One way would be to define a third LPAR. Assign a weight to the new LPAR > equivalent to 4/32 of the total of all the LPAR weights. Cap this new > LPAR. Put a looping task into this LPAR. PR/SM will then ensure that no > more and no less than 4/32 of the total CPU is wasted running a silly loop. > Whatever's not used by the loop is available to the other LPARs. Warn > capacity planners and resource billing people that there's a "soaker" > workload. > I don't get it! Is this "soaker" some sort of stand-alone IPLable program you've written? Or do you need to IPL z/OS to run it? If the latter case, how does it keep your z/OS VWLC peak from reaching 32 MSU? Is there some sort of VWLC exemption for running a z/OS "soaker"? Does IBM allow you to exclude that LPAR's SMF records from your SCRT input? -- LEGAL DISCLAIMER The information transmitted is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Seeing Beyond Money is a service mark of SunTrust Banks, Inc. [ST:XCL] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
