RE: Interactive activity approaching capacity of installed feature

Bryan,

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> 1)    Should I spend the time to pursue the root cause of this?  We
have
> had no performance issues since we upgraded from a 620-2179 to an
> 820-2395-1523 last fall.

1 - The consequences of exceeding your interactive threshold are roughly
equivalent to maxing out an entire system, with the exception that your
batch should continue without too much disturbance.  All interactive
work will perform like molasses in winter until you get the work back
below the threshold.  No permanent damage will be done.  You need to
decide whether it's worth the effort.

> 2)    Could this be caused by queries?  We have over 6,000 queries and
275
> users on our box and most users run their queries interactively.

2 - Absolutely.  Running queries interactively in a good way to burn
CPU.  Considering that you have more processor power available in batch,
you might be able to get faster throughput in batch.  In addition, you
could also attain a higher level of ideological purity :).

> 3)    Could this be caused by SQL?  We recently started some
applications
> that use SQL through ODBC.  I turned the SQL monitor in OPS NAVIGATOR
on
> for
> a few hours one day and did an analysis but did not find anything
> significant.

3 - No, your ODBC connections will process in the batch CPU allocation.

> Thanks in advance for any replies.
>
>
>       Bryan Burns