RE: Question Re: Browser response time.

Definitely determine your root cause first.  Even though we were only
running 60% disk utilization, what we really needed was more disk arms.
High capacity drives can help and hurt.  We added additional drives to
spread the data out and also went through the PTF suggestions such as
increasing the number of initial server start up jobs and saw a big
improvement.

We also had a problem last year that was application centered.  Our End
Order process was running excessively long in the green screen and reaching
our interactive threshold.  Our thought was to run it in CSM and see if
running it in batch would make a big difference.  It went from 20+ minutes
to less than 5, which still wasn't good enough.  We went back to Mapics who
then rewrote part of the tax calculation to make it run efficiently.

You really have to know where the problem is first.
Lisa

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Novak, Momentum [mailto:gnovak@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:21 PM
To: 'MAPICS ERP System Discussion'
Subject: RE: Question Re: Browser response time.


The question in any processor upgrade is what resource is the most
constrained?  If you are consistently running above 70% processor
utilization, then a processor upgrade should help.  If your disk utilization
is over 70-80 percent, adding disk may help.  If your disk is thrashing -
lots of paging and faults (WRKSYSSTS), then get expert advice.

What constitutes a lot of thrashing?  Maybe someone else here can help, I
have seen some relative numbers but they are just guidelines (as are the
percentages above).  Additionally, you may be able to just realign the
memory pool sizes and see some benefits there too - check the setting for
performance adjustment - system value QPFRADJ. 

Throwing more processor at a problem does not solve anything if your biggest
constraint is a different resource - disk, memory, etc.

Regards,
-Greg

Gregory Novak
Manager North American Technical Services
Momentum Utilities Pty Ltd
(630) 985-1736
gnovak@xxxxxxxxxx
www.jacana.com
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: meyno [mailto:meyno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:53 AM
To: MAPICS-L SUBMIT
Subject: Question Re: Browser response time.


We are using Browser 6.0 and have a 720, with cpw of 420.  (#2062)

If I upgrade my CPW to 810 (#2063) or 1600 (#2064) and not doing any other
hardware upgrade,  Will my Browser response time improve?

I'm doing a lot of other stuff to improve response time, but will the above
do the job.

Do I stay in the P10 group?




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