> Well, we're only really experimenting with it here. This is an actual > production box, so we're not going to play around seeing how many > Linuxes we can get going. even most big companies don't have the resources for an S/390 just to 'play with. :) > The biggest problem I could see is that it had a poor response time > for CPU intensive tasks. While a 'bonnie' to do a byte-by-byte write > would be mean to a normal machine, it was brutally slow on the S/390. yeah. no one ever said they were good number-crunchers. :) how was the bonnie performance for big block reads/writes? from everything I hear, that's where they really shine; but even Alan Cox himself had a tough time getting hard figures when he asked the Linux/390 list. > For example, we have Linux in an LPAR w/ 1024MB of memory. This LPAR > resided on a 6 CPU 1,271 MIPS partition w/ 18GB of memory. I though LPAR == partition? Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700