by Ganapati
Commercial Systems Division
One of the major enhancements of the MPE/iX 6.5 release is
increases to several former operating system limits. These enhancements
are designed to help large HP 3000 sites continue to grow the workload
on their systems.
It is important to note that some of these limits can be achieved
only under certain conditions. Further details will be provided
in the articles which follow.
| Operating System Limits | Previous Limits | New Limits |
|---|
Main Memory | 3.75GB | 16GB |
| Disk devices per system | 255 | 511 |
| Disk devices per device class | 255 | 511 |
| DSTs per system | 16383 | 65535 |
| Ordinary fixed-length record files | 4GB | 128GB |
| KSAM Files | 4GB | 128GB |
| VT Sessions | 2000 | 2600 |
| TIO Connections | 2750 | 3300 |
| TCP Connections | 10240 | 20000 |
| UDP Connections | 4096 | 10000 |