IBM I5/OS - Manual (Page 11)

i Series. my Series.
Processor Concepts
Shared Processors
A “shared processor” allows to assign partial processors to a partition
Physical processors lives in a “shared processor pool”
By default, any unassigned processor is a member of the shared processor pool
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i Series. my Series.
Processor Concepts
20 milliseconds of
processor time
10 milliseconds
P1 P2 P3
Shared Processors
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