At least recognize it's a tuning opportunity. We lost some granularity going to WLM but there are still knobs in place to effect thruput. Cheryl's Goal Tender (at _www.watsonwalker.com_ (http://www.watsonwalker.com) ) product can tell you if your perceptions are meeting your expectations. Without more information it's difficult to say, more memory, more CPUs, zIIPs or SSD will give the most long term benefit. In a message dated 8/6/2015 1:59:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time, johnmattson...@gmail.com writes:
As I remember from Barry Merrill... memory should be treated like electricity or plumbing. You should never run out. To put it another way, if you are doing physical paging, buy more memory. It is cheap by comparison to the I/O and cycles needed for physical paging. (Hopefully this has not changed since the last time I was luck enough to hear Barry speak, and hopefully I paraphrased him correctly.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
