RE: What is task CFINT1??

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

We use a server model for our development machine.  We are also using them for 
a machine dedicated as our EDI server and a machine dedicated for our email.  
However we also have one running the green screen BPCS for one of our 
divisions.  We had a different machine on order for them.  However when they 
whined hard enough we let them borrow a server model reserved for another 
application.  Their batch jobs went from 2 hours to 12 minutes.  They refused 
to return the server.  They do however shoot anyone that runs anything 
interactively that can be run in batch.  We have over 100 users on that machine 
with 80 jobs in QINTER.  They've been running fat and happy but they are ready 
for another upgrade.  We'd get them another upgrade in a heartbeat but the cost 
of BPCS going from the deal we got as one of the first on a 30S to the machine 
we want to go to is a showstopper.




bob@cstoneindy.com on 09/29/98 01:19:45 PM
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Rob,

I wouldn't call you cynical.  The CFINT1 job is a throttle on 
interactive.  But remember, when the server model was purchased, it 
was as a screamer batch processing machine.  And should have been sold 
as such...with heavy emphasis on the interactive penalties (I am not 
saying this is how they are sold, only how they SHOULD be sold).

For the same amount of batch horsepower, the server models are a lot 
cheaper than an equivalent "regular as/400".  If you are doing server 
tasks such as HTTP, ODBC, etc., you get a lot of bang for the buck. 
 Or if the machine will be used for other heavy batch work...such as 
compiles (eg: A Development system).  But for most companies (but not 
all), it makes a poor primary production machine.

If this interactive penalty can not be lived with, then don't get a 
server model!

Note: A batch job is any job that does not show INT under the Type 
column of WrkActJob.

Regards,
Bob Crothers
Cornerstone Communications, LLC
www.faxserver401.com



-----Original Message-----
From:   Rob Berendt [SMTP:rob@dekko.com]
Sent:   Tuesday, September 29, 1998 3:37 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: What is task CFINT1??

Call me cynical but what processor are you running?  I am suspecting 
you
are using a server model.  Some coworkers and I only see this beast on
server models.  We strongly suspect that this is a govenor that IBM 
put on
them to kill heavy interactive usage.  I hope I don't come off as too 
big
brother.




lbolhui@ibm.net on 09/29/98 10:41:44 AM
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This morning I was trying to solve a customers performance problem and
found the task CFINT1 in WRKSYSSTS as the culprit.  This task was
consuming 60-80% of all CPU for over an hour.  There were no QSYSOPR
messages, no problem logs, no disk problems or excessive activity, no
communications lines in other than ACTIVE state.

What is this task or where can I find out more about it?

TIA

Larry Bolhuis
Arbor Solutions, Inc
lbolhui@ibm.net
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