Re: Automatic Performance adjustment

IIRC, WRKACTJOB is one of the most resource-intensive commands that you can
use on the system.  Even though you are only refreshing it occasionally, it
is still collecting statistics in the background.

I see the same behavior on my system when I am the only user, running
WRKACTJOB.

This is one of the reasons that you should limit the use of this command to
only those that need it...definitely not *PUBLIC.

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jones, John (US)" <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:00 AM
Subject: RE: Automatic Performance adjustment


> I still see the performance adjuster doing odd things even at V5R1
> CUM2134.
>
> Example:  It's a Saturday and I'm doing some maintenance on our dev box
> (720).  I'm the only user signed on and I've submitted some big batch
> jobs.  While waiting for the batch jobs to finish, I'm occasionally
> hitting F10 on a WRKACTJOB and/or WRKSYSSTS display.  With the perf
> adjuster on, my activity will be allocated about 200MB of main storage
> with the remainder being split between *MACHINE & *BASE.  The box has
> 2GB total.  Page faulting in *MACHINE will be higher than in *BASE.  So
> I drop *INTERACT to 50MB but over time it moves it back up.
>
> There's no reason for a single interactive job that uses under 2% of the
> CPU load to be allocated 10% of main storage, especially when the
> program stack isn't really changing and I'm only refreshing the display
> every couple of minutes.
>
> I manually tune our production system, but leave the dev box at
> QPFRADJ=3 to see if the auto tuner improves as new PTFs/releases are
> loaded.
>
> - John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:31:01 -0500
> from: qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)
> subject: RE: Automatic Performance adjustment
>
> Scott:
>
> I imagine the only reason "the majority" favored manual is because the
> majority of those responding felt comfortable with manual tuning. Those
> who most use auto-tuning possibly don't feel comfortable offering an
> opinion.
>
> Personally, since somewhere in version 3 of OS/400, I've never seen a
> production AS/400 that didn't run better on a day-to-day basis with
> auto-tuning active. There'd be no rational way anyone could manually
> tune a number of the systems I've worked with to get even decent results
> for more than an hour or so.
>
> As far as I know, there's no good reason not to auto-tune most systems,
> especially if the system is configured to take advantage of it to begin
> with. This means that subsystems should be configured with appropriate
> subsystem pools, including private pools where needed, routing and
> pre-start job entries should direct work to appropriate subsystem pools
> (tuning is almost pointless otherwise), work is started in appropriate
> subsystems, sufficient memory for shifting as needed should be
> available, basic shared-pool settings are reasonable, etc.
>
> And in a pinch, even if auto-tuning is active, you can still make manual
> changes in order to react to exceptional circumstances. That item alone
> is enough to suggest trying auto-tuning. By starting with an adjust at
> IPL and automatic, you can get an initial set of pool sizes and activity
> levels to begin baselining. Then switch to straight automatic once
> settings start to fluctuate within a range.
>
> If you need specific adjustments at regular times that anticipate change
> and don't want to wait for auto-shifts -- end of day or start of day,
> e.g. -- then add job scheduler entries that cause major shifts, perhaps
> one or two or more CLRPOOL commands plus related CHGSHRPOOL commands.
>
> In short, I seldom have QPFRADJ at anything but 3 and I have no problem
> augmenting it with manual action. I don't see it as either/or nor as
> better/worse. Use both.
>
> Tom Liotta
>
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