Can you say "sibling pend?" > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Hal Merritt > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Here we go again (was z/OS Hot Topics 19) > > One of my few remaining brain cells is overheating :o) > > In most of my tiny known universe, a Queue Depth is a way to express > work units waiting on a resource. So, from an application point of > view, > yes, I suppose a queue depth could be thought of as concurrent I/O. But > not in z land. When we say concurrent we really mean concurrent: fully > parallel. Nobody waiting on anybody. > > I find it odd (and confusing) that *nix would use such a name to > describe a parallel process. Or does it? Are those I/O's really > concurrent? > > >
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