RE: CFINT01 (the interactive governor) -- MAPICS-L

Joan,

CFINT is directly related to consumption of the remaining cpu cycles once
the purchased level of interactive has been breached. In looking at the
charts that IBM publishes it almost seems like faster cpus would saturate
faster and kick CFINT sooner but we have found it to be the other way
around. On a fast cpu things clear fast enough to allow other operations to
run unencumbered. 

So... Yes it is a problem but you can probably limit its impact by getting
more disk and allowing the system to complete its operations faster leaving
more room for your interactive request. Or put another way I don't think the
system is smart enough to separate system activities supporting your
interactive job from real interactive work. More memory and more disk should
fix those to some extent.

You can also see CFINT in action if you have WRKSYSACT. 

Regards

Konrad

-----Original Message-----
From: McCready, Joan [mailto:Joan.McCready@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 1:54 PM
To: 'MAPICS ERP System Discussion'
Subject: RE: CFINT01 (the interactive governor)


So... Lack of enough free disk space will cause CFINT to run up the CPU
usage? Or are they two separate performance issues?

     Thanks - Joan

-----Original Message-----
From: meyno [mailto:meyno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 12:38 PM
To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion
Subject: Re: CFINT01 (the interactive governor)


I missed your disk space issue,  The more disk space you have the more disk
space that is required to be free.  This will always effect performance if
you do not have enough. 90 % is not good, it will kill your users.

----- Original Message -----
From: "McCready, Joan" <Joan.McCready@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "MAPICS List" <mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 12:46 PM
Subject: CFINT01 (the interactive governor)


> To all,
>
> Ahhh - month end, and the end-users are beating the AS/400 and MAPICS
> to death! The CFINT01 interactive system governor is choking our 400 
> to its knees to keep everyone from actually getting any work done!
>
> My questions - does anyone know if remaining ASP disk space affects
> CFINT? Sometime late in January, we hit 90% disk usage (been getting 
> all sorts of warnings and dire threats from our machine since), and it 
> now seems like CFINT kicks in if you even THINK of logging on 
> interactively! Honestly, several weeks ago I was in on a Sunday 
> morning, trying to upgrade PLMC - only person on the *$&*#(^% system 
> and CFINT was still running at 72%! It
is
> driving me and my users NUTS!
>
> Any suggestions? Besides a new 400, that is; I put THAT into next
> year's capital budget requests and got laughed out of the Dir of 
> Finance's office...
>
>            Dying a SLOW death in Missouri - Joan
>
> Joan McCready, IS Manager      phone:  636-479-4499
> MetalTek International               fax:  636-479-3399
> The Carondelet Division             www.metaltekint.com
> <www.metaltekint.com>
> 8600 Commercial Blvd
> Pevely, MO  63070
>
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