Intel AS/400 RISC Server - Manual (Page 223)

The chart above shows some basic performance scaling for 1, 2, 3 and 4 processors. For this
comparison both partition measurements were done with the processors set up as shared, and
with the IBM i operating system partition set to capped. The rest of the resources stay constant,
which consists of 90 RAID1 DDMs in a DS4800 under 16 LUNs 2 GB of memory assigned to
VIOS and 28 GB assigned to the IBM i operating system partition. Note that only 1 LPAR is
running at the time of the experiment.
IBM i 6.1 Performance Capabilities Reference - January/April/October 2008
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VIOS/IBM i operating system JS22 Express
DS4800 (90 DDMs)
Commercial Performance Workload
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VIOS/IBM i operating system JS22 Blade
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Commercial Performance Workload
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i5OS 2.6 Processors VIOS .4 Processors
i5OS 3.5 Processors VIOS .5 Processors