[geeks] Re: [rescue] Re: kernel scalability....

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

woods at weird.com writes:

>I'm not disputing any of that -- I'm telling you that any unix-like
>operating systems architecture will have one hell of a hard time ever,
>and I mean EVER, pushing the same throughput through an s390
>architecture machine as the same unix-like kernel running as multiple
>instances under VM.  Period.

I would expect any unix[-ish] system to do relatively badly on a 
mainframe, because unix software doesn't know about channel programs,
etc.

However - why does running multiple unix instances under VM help?

Is this a context-switch-to-hide-latency type effect, like barel
processors use?

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