Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

[Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Then he might add a couple of cheap Windows servers on the front end to server up the web :-)

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date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:38:19 +0200
from: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

  Den 09/10/10 05.55, Nathan Andelin skrev:
> > From: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
> > How will you handle if the system simply cannot handle more requests 
> > per second?
> I change the subsystem class for all the ODBC/JDBC database server 
> jobs to a time slice of 1 millisecond, and knock the run priority down 
> to 99, and allocate just 1 meg RAM to the subsystem.  We only need 
> those jobs for serving .Net and JEE clients.  It's fun to irritate 
> those people.  That frees more resources for all our RPG CGI programs 
> ;-)
>
> Okay, if your box is pegged at 100% CPU utilization 24X7 and customers 
> begin complaining about performance, then you call IBM and order the 
> activation key for a capacity on demand upgrade.  You enter the key, 
> and suddenly your server is running on 4 sockets instead of 2.  CPU goes back down to 50%.
Ok, sounds very easy.

How expensive is such a "capacity on demand"-upgrade, and what do you do when you run out of these upgrades or they get too expensive?