RE: Performance problems using dataqueues to NT.

A correction:
Program Activation Groups (PAGs) should have been Process Access Groups
(PAGs)


Frances Stewart
Java II and Applications Enablement
External: (507) 253-2795
Tie-line: 8-553-2795
IBM Rochester

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To:   JAVA400-L@midrange.com
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From: Frances Stewart/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS
Subject:  RE: Performance problems using dataqueues to NT.  (Document link:
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I have spoken with Debbie Hatt on this and looked at the help on the PURGE
option, and here is what I have learned (with some clarification for Java
programmers for whom "classes" has a different meaning than AS400 *CLS
type):

   The "classes" being referred to are *CLS objects on the AS/400, not Java
   classes. An AS/400 *CLS object contains parameters that control the
   running of a routing step for a subsystem which affects all jobs running
   in that subsystem.

   The PURGE parameter on the *CLS object can be *NO or *YES.
   *NO indictes that jobs running in the subsystem (e.g.  for WebSphere
   3.02 this would be QEJBSBS) will not be moved out of main storage and
   put into auxilliary storage at the end of a time slice or when beginning
   a long wait. However when main storage is needed to run other threads in
   the same storage pool, pages belonging to threads in a job in a long
   wait or at the end of a time slice may be moved to auxilliary storage to
   accommodate pages needed for other threads or jobs.

   *YES would be better named *MAYBE. A decision is made by the operating
   system code on whether move a job out of main storage into auxilliary
   storage if it is eligible. This option says that if the operating system
   deems it necessary or wise to move the job, it is OK to do so.

   In V4R5, Program Activation Groups (PAGs) no longer exist, so whether
   PURGE is *NO or *YES does not matter.

   In V4R4, depending on your system, you may want to change the value to
   *NO, but typically this would be decided after having performed a system
   performance analysis over the subsystem pool with a typical workload
   running to determine if such a change is required.

One question I have is what performance improvement percentages have you
seen on WebSphere 3.02 between the two settings (i.e. out of the box versus
changing QEJB/QEJBCLS to have PURGE(*NO)). Running what type of
application? And on what OS/400 release level?


Frances Stewart
Java II and Applications Enablement
External: (507) 253-2795
Tie-line: 8-553-2795
IBM Rochester


mandy.shaw@uk.catalyst-solutions.com@midrange.com on 09/28/2000 10:52:56 PM

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A comment - the latest versions of both Domino and WebSphere Application
Server on AS/400 *still* have their classes shipped with PURGE(*YES), which
is quite extraordinary in my view since both products involve very large
numbers of Act->Wait transitions and our experience has shown that it is
essential to switch both, straight away, to using PURGE(*NO). It is
essential to have sufficient main storage for either product, but people
who are deploying them, by and large, know that. I do suspect that there
are a lot of people out there using PURGE(*YES) for things simply because
it's the default.
Mandy





"Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@richardjackson.net> on 28/09/2000
20:31:31

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Subject:  RE: Performance problems using dataqueues to NT.




Fred:

On a RISC machine with adequate memory, it is irresponsible to use process
purge on an AS/400.  Between 1996 and 1998, purge(*yes) was the IBM/JDE
guideline for ODBC server jobs (QZDASOINIT).  In December 1998, Debbie Hatt
and Alan Wallet discovered the problem and the guideline changed.  Setting
those jobs to purge(*yes) was a very bad idea but we didn't know it at the
time.  I can speak here because it was my decision, after consultation with
the IBM ODBC database guys, to recommend that it be set that way in 1996.
I
made a mistake.  In 1998 and 1999, I spread the word to change the setting.
It took between 6 and 9 months to get the word out to everyone.

I believe that makes highly questionable any assumption on the part of IBM
developers that customers use purge.  If SLIC retains that anachronism, it
should be purged :)

Contact me offline if you want to discuss this further.  You can call
Debbie
Hatt on an inside line.

Richard Jackson
mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net
http://www.richardjacksonltd.com
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> |Many waiting primitives in the bowels OS/400 have options coded
> |in them to
> |help overall performance in the system. The optiosn tell SLIC whether a
> |wait is expected to be long > 2 seconds or short < 2 seconds.
> |This has a direct effect on how the scheduler treats the waiter, on
> |priority of the waiter, and on whether the waiter is immediately
> |paged out
> |or what. There's a significant transition that occurs in SLIC at the 2
> |second mark.
> |I suspect is related to this in some fashion.
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> |Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in 'The Matrix'.
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