In
<b870629719727b4ba82a6c06a31c291239b4fc3...@hqmailsvr01.voltage.com>,
on 04/18/2013
   at 10:02 AM, Phil Smith <[email protected]> said:

>So the question is: What's the real cost of having a TCB sitting
>there idle?

Slightly more LSQA. Slightly longer queue length.

>To what extent is an idle TCB on z/OS impacting things?

A longer TCB queue slows dispatching, but not by that much.

>Are there system- and/or primary TCB-based limits on numbers of 
>TCBs that we're pushing against?

How close are you to 256? Is that still the limit?

>Each TCB uses maybe 25K of memory in our address space, a

What kind of memory?

>and presumably some small amount of system memory.

LSQA is in your address space. Im not aware of any per TCB global
memory use.

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