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Thanks alot for the responses -
- I was a little scared to reply and couldn't type too well as my knuckles
are sore from the wrapping they got for leaving the subject blank..... but
I will not make that mistake again.....ever....:)~
Anyway:
Originally our boxes were configured by external consultants and they based
the set up on some BPCS perfromance recommendations, where appropriate,
and the decision was made not to enable QPFRADJ.
However, now the system has grown, and batch is at an all time slow, and in
a desperate bid to speed things up without spending any money, I'm
exploring the obvious.
We have job currently which shifts the memory around for day/evening
activities, but I didn't think it was as efficient as QPFRADJ, and wanted
to try it, but before I can CHANGE anything, we must raise change request,
which requires justifiaction, research and info, which u have provided.
I just wanted to be sure that no one had any horror stories of changing the
val and batch taking 10 hours instead of 5....
We have alot of SBS as you can see and most jobs do not route into the base
pool, and I may change those that do, if I don't get good results from
pfradj.
WRKSBS
Opt Subsystem Storage (K) 1 2 3
BATCHCATSP 0 2 6
BATCHDEV 10000 10
BATCHIT 0 2 6
BATCHPG 0 2 6
BATCHSP 0 2 6
BATCHUK 0 2 6
BPCSCS 0 2 4
EDISBS 30000 2 11
HERMIT 0 2 4
INTERDEV 20000 7
INTERIT 0 2 5
INTERPG 0 2 5
INTERSP 0 2 5
INTERUK 0 2 5
ORDERPOST 0 2 4
QBATCH 0 2 6
QCMN 0 2 4
QCTL 0 2
QINTER 0 2 5
QPGMR 0 2 6
QSERVER 0 2 4
QSNADS 0 2 4
QSPL 0 2 3
QSYSWRK 0 2
Q1PGSCH 0 2 2
RBTSLEEPER 0 2
ROBOTCTL 0 2 6
SQLMONITOR 40000 9
SYSCHECKER 0 2
TRAX 16000 2 8
WRKSYSSTS:
1 555000 170636 +++++ *MACHINE *FIXED
2 384016 0 50 *BASE *CALC
3 300000 0 2 *SPOOL *CALC
4 15000 0 11 *SHRPOOL2 *CALC
5 2000000 0 35 *INTERACT *CALC
6 300000 0 6 *SHRPOOL1 *CALC
7 20000 0 13 1 INTERDEV QGPL *FIXED
8 16000 0 15 2 TRAX QGPL *FIXED
9 40000 0 4 1 SQLMONITOR QGPL *FIXED
10 10000 0 4 1 BATCHDEV QGPL *FIXED
11 30000 0 6 2 EDISBS EDIV32F *FIXED
Too much info....or not enough?
Any more input would be excellent.
Many thanks
Sam
thomas@inorbit.com@midrange.com on 26/07/2001 04:40:38
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Subject: Re: [QPFRADJ/BPCS]
Samantha:
<disclaimer>
Everything in here is pure personal opinion from personal experience. I
have no education background in this area other years of reading manuals,
articles and just plain trying stuff. IBM might have far better answers.
</disclaimer>
No way to know if it'll help in **YOUR** system. If you look through your
subsystems and find that you have any tasks running in *BASE (possibly with
the exception of the subsystem monitors) rather than in private or shared
pools or if you really have no memory to shift anyway or many other
possible factors, then it might not help at all. I suppose in the worst
cases, it could even make things worse.
It often seems to me that IBM tends to ship configurations that are not
well suited for good performance. Just check how many of their default
entries point to *BASE, e.g., routing entries to support TCP/IP. And since
they get income from selling memory, that makes sense. To be fair, though,
they cannot have a good idea of what **YOUR** system needs at the time of
delivery.
But people are commonly unwilling to change those entries to point to
another pool. Further, new custom entries often follow those default
examples. So, the memory in *BASE is constantly in use, so performance
adjuster has no clean way to shift memory around directly and QPFRADJ has
minimal effect.
Quite a while back, I put together a memory pool configuration utility that
I've used with what seems to be decent success. It changes most *sbsds'
pool settings, changes any routing entries, changes prestart job entries,
etc., to settings that have worked for me. I run it on any new AS/400 I'm
responsible for and QPFRADJ=3 has seemed to give noticable improvement.
From this, I've believed QPFRADJ has significant value when it's used on
appropriately configured systems. (And it might work much better if I knew
for certain what "appropriately configured" really was.)
But, will QPFRADJ=3 work well for you? Maybe. Post your subsystem
descriptions, routing entries, pool definitions, etc., and let's see.
(Toungue-in-cheek comment but based on at least some unfortunate reality.)
At the worst, you can always set the value back.
Tom Liotta
On Wed, 25 July 2001, "Samantha L Smith" wrote:
> Really want to know if anyone has had any issues using QPFRADJ, set to 3,
> with an ERP like BPCS, had conflicting recommendations.
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The PowerTech Group, Inc.
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Kent, WA 98032
Phone 253-872-7788
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