Re: CPU percentage -- MIDRANGE-L

Keith,

CFINT is the 'CPU governor'  that kicks in when you use more interactive
power than you have paid for. You only see it on WRKSYSACT.
IBM introduced this when it was trying to sell cheaper systems for
client/server and compete with Unix boxes.
If it is using a significant amount of CPU it means you either need to
upgrade your interactive card, or you need to stop users doing green screen
things interactively when they could be doing them in batch or
client/server.
You may also see that existing jobs have their priorities downgraded when
this happens, causing the system to slow down. Sometimes you can improve
this by changing class priorities etc, but the latest technology systems
(810, 825) have abandoned this way of working. There was also a third party
tool that came on the market called Fast/400 that was claimed to 'disable'
CFINT.

Hope this helps,

Clare


----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Nolan" <knolan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 12:52 PM
Subject: RE: CPU percentage


> What does CFINT do to our system...  I do see this appear in the jobs when
I do a WRKSYSACT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clare Holtham [mailto:Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 March 2003 17:54
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: CPU percentage
>
>
> Yes, WRKSYSACT is part of Performance tools. Depending on your system, the
> culprit could be CFINT for example. Or those system database jobs that
keep
> running after you think that library delete or whatever has finished....
>
> Clare
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jones, John (US)" <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:27 PM
> Subject: RE: CPU percentage
>
>
> > Kieth,
> >
> > More than likely there are some system tasks running that don't show up
> > in a WRKACTJOB.  If you have it, WRKSYSACT will usually reveal the
> > system tasks & their resource utilization.  IIRC, WRKSYSACT comes with
> > performance tools.  Hopefully someone can confirm this.
> >
> > - John
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Keith Nolan [mailto:knolan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:04 AM
> > To: Midrange List (E-mail)
> > Subject: CPU percentage
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Can anyone tell me why our CPU % usage reports very high usage even
> > though all the jobs usage on the system do not even come close to the
> > reported usage when I use WRKACTJOB to view the jobs???  We are running
> > a 170 on V4R5..  The system seems to becoming very slow over the last
> > couple of weeks...
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
> >
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