RE: New Power 7 - Building a Case

Re: system performance. Must be nice...here's a snapshot of my system as it stands right now:

% CPU used . . . . . . . : 98.3 Auxiliary storage:
% DB capability . . . . : 69.6 System ASP . . . . . . : 881.4 G
Elapsed time . . . . . . : 03:24:24 % system ASP used . . : 85.7558
Jobs in system . . . . . : 6331 Total . . . . . . . . : 881.4 G
% perm addresses . . . . : .056 Current unprotect used : 19246 M
% temp addresses . . . . : 4.475 Maximum unprotect . . : 20333 M

/b;

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Subject: Re: New Power 7 - Building a Case

Maintenance
Power
Ancient IBM paper on the economic value of rapid response time.
Current technology. Compare to how many of them would run an IBM AT with
a text based word processor. They both produce documents. Current
hardware allows current software. This allows you to keep pace with fixes
and patches to improve security and reliability.

Some managers groove on 90+% utilization. If they had factories with
lower than that they would close plants, merge them together, plan
multiple shifts and have x people do their work by going module to module
as others go to the restroom - practically what we do here. However our
busiest lpar: % CPU used . . . . . . . : 8.1. That's eight point
one.





Rob Berendt