On Wednesday, 04/12/2006 at 10:05 EST, Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did a "query maxspool system": > MAXIMUM SPOOL FILE COUNT FOR SYSTEM IS 1655640 > > Wow, we got a little way to go<G>. > > But....1,655,640? What binary magical number is that? > 1655640 decimal is > 194358 hex which is > 000110010100001101011000 in binary. > > Just where is the magically charms in those numbers?
It is a calculation based on the size of the warm start area. I should mention that part of the calculation includes "John's Constant" which has a value of 1022. John's Constant was derived from the distance-power curve exhibited by black holes, quasars that rotate in less than 25.8 hours, and other such celestial vermin. (Either that or it's the number of spool file index entries that can fit on a page of dasd - I can never remember for sure.) It is left as an exercise to the reader to deduce the algorithm from the above information. (Just remember that here, like television, there's no such thing as "irrelevant dialogue" [pssst...note that it's 25.8 HOURS, not minutes!]) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
