Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> írta 2005.11.07 15:09:38 
időpontban:

> Don't let the compile times scare you.  It is long established that the
> zSeres processors are not the fastest on the market, far from it.  What
> you gain by running on zSeries is extremely fast internal communications
> with Hipersockets and Virtual Switch, high I/O bandwidth (FICON and SCSI
> disk support) and the economies of scale of being able to run multiple
> middleware machines with only the license cost of the zSeries CPUs.
> 

Running java programs is always cpu intensive.. 1 x86 CPU is _much_ faster 
than an IFL (on our z800), so to migrate 10 x86 to 1 IFL is not the best 
idea if you have heavy cpu loads.

I have never seen that extremly fast i/o: an x86 can do that also with a 
storage server.., so if you don't have thousands of users with thousands 
of opened files x86 will be faster (the same goes to HiperSockets: it's 
nice, goes with memory speed, but at the end you need a cpu to do 
something with the sent/arrived data :)

I think zSeries may be faster in concurrent operations. You won't have any 
problems if you see 60-70% "system" load in top program. And of course we 
cannot forget the zero-downtime..

István

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