Richard,

FWIW, the DTCVSW machines are not involved with data transfer at all.
That's all handled by CP.  The controllers are only there to manage the
OSA.

Regards,
Miguel Delapaz
z/VM TCP/IP Development


> Inactivity is not a likely problem - we are driving well over 10K
> messages per second through the VSWITCH when the problem occurs. The
> symptom we see is that TPF is dropping  sockets due to "excessive
> retransmits". My first thought was that the DTCVSW machines might be a
> choke-point. I have, I think, found the answer to the question about
> virtual storage. I doubled the size of the machines to no avail -
> exactly same symptom at the same message rate. Following the test runs,
> Q VSWITCH ALL DETAILS shows no discarded packets and no errors for any
> of the IP stack machines.


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