RE: Performance tuning suggestions

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm - how many COMMON's can you attend for the cost of QPFRADJ ?
:-)

Which by the way now monitors and tunes in 20 second intervals, not 15
minute intervals).
"This isn't your father's QPFRADJ  !".




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> -----Original Message-----
> From: DAsmussen@aol.com [SMTP:DAsmussen@aol.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 1998 11:56 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Performance tuning suggestions
> 
> In a message dated 98-02-22 11:19:39 EST, you write:
> 
> > >Spankedy, spank!  Yes, performance opinions are like (well, you
> know) and
> >  >others will probably disagree (although the latter seem to always
> have a
> >  >maxed-out system) _HOWEVER_, I _STRONGLY DISAGREE_ with setting
> >  >any value for
> >  >QPFRADJ other than ZERO (zip, null, nada) for a 9406 system.
> <me>
> 
> >  I will agree that IBM's Great (Tasting) Tuner isn't all it's
> cracked up to
> >  be.  However, we've had good luck with AUTOTUNE from Help Systems.
> Yes,
> >  yes, I know that any idjit, upon memorizing the work management
> manual
> >  (after reading it at least twice), can do a better job... and I've
> done so
> >  in the past.  And I can do it again if I need to.  However...  I do
> NOT
> >  want to spend all day tweaking the tuning parameters every day to
> get past
> >  the Mid Afternoon Crunch.  *sigh*
> >  
> >  Besides, just dump a whole lot more memory and a bunch of disk arms
> in the
> >  system and all your clogs go down the drain!  (:
> 
> Ho, ho, ho, Sir.  Your levity is well taken (and sorely needed) on
> this thread
> ;-)!  As I stated earlier, you can establish your processing
> requirements by
> period and submit a job via your scheduler of choice to optimize pools
> for
> that period.  Spend all day for a couple of weeks to establish the
> parameters
> and programs to change them, then spend your tuner money going to
> COMMON!
> 
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
> 
> "As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists." --
> Joan
> Gussow
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