Re: Why separate pools?

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/11/2004, at 5:58 AM, Joe Pluta wrote:

> The interesting thing about the iSeries (and it's been this way since
> the CPF days) is that if you have 50 users signed on to order entry in
> the same pool, only ONE copy of the OE program is loaded.  Each user
> gets their own space for data (which these days is the F specs and D
> specs plus miscellaneous bits), but the program itself is only loaded
> once.

True.

> This does NOT work across memory pools.  If you have two users in two
> different pools running order entry, you have two copies of the program
> AND the data.

False. Program code is shared just like data. There is no difference 
from the system's perspective.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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