----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Sibley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: zSeries performance heavily dependent on working set size


> Typical first reaction - its the paging subsystem and
> its not tuned correctly.

I think in your first post, where you mentioned working set size, most
of us began thinking "paging". Later, "touch a byte in each page"
furthers this assumption. You're talking memory cache misses, we're
thinking page faults.

<snip>

> My question still is, "do other platforms (hardware)
> see this degradation". I have run this on my 300PL and
> you see two legs in the curve - when the hardware
> cache miss begins and when the real memory is
> exhausted and paging starts.

I trust that the curve is more dramatic when paging starts!

-jcf

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