RE: What About Price vs. Performance?

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've definitely found this to be the case.  The AS/400 is better at caching
its objects than any machine I know.  I believe this has to do with the
single-level memory store coupled with the fact that everything is an
object, so that the AS/400 simply caches EVERYTHING.  If it's used a lot,
it's available.

I have in fact noticed this specifically with the web server.  If I stop all
access for a little while, and especially if I do some other, unrelated
high-load task, then the next access to the web has a much higher latency
than subsequent hits.  This indicates dynamic caching based on use, at least
to me.  Then again, it's been a decade or two since I wrote an operating
system, so what do I know?  The most sophisticated caching I did was an LRU
(Least Recently Used) table.  <grin>


> The post that showed that the more hits, the better response time, goes
> back to the S/38. IBM would point out that the more you use something
> the quicker it's retrieved.  That's the point of the memory management
> optimizer.


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