RE: AS/400 size guess

[Quazy <quazy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They are TCP/IP

At 12:15 PM 12/1/00 -0800, you wrote:
>The only smallest system large enough to handle 350 attached devices is
>probally the 720, IF they are attached via twinax.  Are they?  If they are
>attached via TCP/IP a 170 might handle it.
>
>Christopher K. Bipes    mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
>Sr. Programmer/Analyst  mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
>CrossCheck, Inc.        http://www.cross-check.com
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>Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Quazy [mailto:quazy@SoftHome.net]
>Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 11:10 AM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: AS/400 size guess
>
>
>I have a 720 with processor 2063 feature1504  with 2GB memory.
>
>I am looking to get a fail over machine, I want to get the smallest machine
>that will handle the normal workload of just my mission critical
>application.
>
>My CPU averages at only about 15% to maybe 20% and basically almost no
>pageing, when I have just this application running.
>
>I am looking for a machine that could handle this for a realatively short
>period of time, say 12 to 24 hours. It could be running at 90 - 100% CPU.
>It would need to have the ability to have about 350 interactive devices
>attached, and would need basically no batch processing during the fail over.
>
>
>Does anyone have a guess at what size of a machine that this would take to
>run on?
>
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>Chris
>
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