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| From | Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Qbasic |
| Date | 2016-02-14 10:15 -0800 |
| Organization | Wheeler&Wheeler |
| Message-ID | <87twlbw43x.fsf@garlic.com> (permalink) |
| References | (13 earlier) <db106e35-ebe9-40ac-b602-b8b016462d93@googlegroups.com> <MPG.31299bb74b919d28989f78@news.eternal-september.org> <4a762613-d897-4924-b2cf-cd50dbd14b8b@googlegroups.com> <n9q4pb$7bj$1@news.albasani.net> <1385597732.477157142.786322.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> |
Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes: > VM needs a LOT less memory than MVS. My guess is that you could run a > reasonable system in 64K (Lynn?) I know that on the same size machine VM > ran much better than MVS/TSO. Part of CMS issue was that it got increasingly bloated over the years ... and was also dependent on mainstream OS/360(MVS) applications ported to CMS. Endicott did XT/370 ... a couple 68k processors emulating some part of 370 running modified vm370 (with CMS) ... I/O was done by interprocessor messages with cp88 running on the 8088 processor ... it initially only had 384k "real memory". I did some number of "benchmarks" show extreme page thrashing ... because of the bloated memory requirements for compilers and assemblers. As a result they kludged an extra 128k on the memory card ... giving 512kbytes ... which helped to reduce the worst of the page thrashing. However, the 370 applications still tended to be relatively disk instensive (even w/o page thrashing) ... running on xt/370 compared poorly with applications implemented for the pc/xt environment. A CMS disk i/o required interprocessor message to cp88 which then did the i/o on the native XT 100ms/access hard drive. Applications native for PC/XT optimized for much less disk i/o per operation. MVS/TSO was significantly more bloated than VM370/CMS, much longer pathlengths, much less efficient system algorithms. CMS had some number of much more efficient native applications like editor ... but the compilers and assemblers were just ported to CMS from os360/MVS. CMS (& CP67 & vm370) I/O was much more efficient than OS360/MVS (but applications mainframe disks were much faster than PC disks ... so applications weren't as sensitive to optimization). Late 70s, IBM San Jose Research had environment with MVS 370/168 and VM370 370/158 with all 3330 disk strings connected to both machines ... but strict rules that MVS 3330 disks would never be mounted on vm370 "strings". One day they accidentally violated the rule and the datacenter almost got phone calls from users complaining about CMS response horribly degraded. The issue is os360/MVS environment makes heavy use of multi-track search ... which can tie-up channel, controller and disks for up to 1/3sec at a time. MVS multi-track search on VM370 string will lockout the vm370 "dedicated" controller ... having disastrous effects on CMS response. We immediately demanded that the MVS 3330 disk be moved to MVS string ... and MVS operations said they would do it 2nd shift (this was around 10am). We had enormously optimized VS1 for running under vm370 ... that ran faster under loaded vm370 on 370/158 than MVS ran on 370/168. We put its 3330 up on MVS string and were able to bring the MVS system to its knees with multi-track searches (and CMS response almost returns to normal). MVS operations then agreed to immediately move the MVS 3330, if we moved the VS1 3330. Besides all the significant performance issues with MVS/TSO ... a significant part of TSO response is significantly hurt by the underlying MVS use of multi-track search. Some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
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