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Rick, I had these same questions, exactly... Especially the last line of the article. The only major software issues I *know* of is the effect of tiered pricing on packages. IIRC, the article said most of their stuff was custom code, though. IOW, I don't get it, at all... Maybe they've had some bad experience, which they mis-identified as a problem of multi-processors, because I've never heard of any (other than *slightly* less gained for each processor added)... jt | -----Original Message----- | [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Richard B Baird | Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:25 AM | | Jim, | | Thanks for the post. Would anyone like to discuss the meaning of the | following paragraph of the article? Why would this be true? are they | saying that a 12 way wouldn't be a significant increase in power when | running websphere? what are the "major software issues" that would bog | them down? | | Rick | | The issue of maxing out on capacity was faced early on. Passer said | stress tests were performed at the IBM iSeries headquarters, in | Rochester, Minnesota. From that, it was determined that adding a | second processor would be "an easy fix." The next round of increasing | capacity is more complicated. "After two CPUs in the iSeries," Passer | explained, "the application server has too much overhead and doesn't | really offer a big advantage over multiple application server | instances. In all cases, it means more CPUs, but there are major | software issues one gets bogged down with."
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