Re: Enough grunt for v4r5?

[Neil Palmer <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Going to/past V4R4, in my experience, will have a performance impact on 
small systems that are low on memory.

Suggest you go shopping for used memory and increase to the maximum, which 
for the 400-2131 is 224MB.
You may have to remove a pair of 32MB features and replace with a pair of 
64MB to reach that limit.
It should only cost a few hundred $.
I wouldn't say it would make a BIG difference, but it will help - and 
224MB is your limit.

Then I'd suggest trying QPFRADJ=3 and on WRKSHRPOOL for Paging make sure 
your pools have *CALC and not *FIXED.

...Neil





Matthias Oertli <oertlim@s054.aone.net.au>
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2001/08/01 05:10
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Hi,

We're looking at upgrading our box from v4r3 to v4r5 (just to get to a
supported release). 

The machine is a 9402 400 with processor feature 2131. We have 160MB of
RAM and 24GB of disk with 16GB usable (combination RAID/MIRROR) of which
about 54% is used. It's supporting mainly green screen/telnet
interactive users (about 30) and a tiny bit of netserver stuff.

I wouldn't say we have performance problems, but response time sometimes
is borderline, I would not want to see it get worse.

My question: if we go to v4r5 do I have to expect diminished
performance? Greatly diminished performance?

If I was to upgrade the RAM to the maximum the box can take (I think
about 224MB) would this make a big difference?

Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Matthias



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