RE: CPF9E7F "usage limit exceeded" and performance

Got it, there is no CFINIT being enabled. Currently, it is a soft error
with just a warning. I would imagine at some time in the future, IBM might
start to enforce that, but that is truly my opinion and not IBM's stated
direction. So, there is no need to worry that the system is reallocating
licenses when you do this. How many licenses of i5/OS do you have (1,2,4)?

As for your question on resources being allocated. From a performance
standpoint, you would want to look at memory and CPU. What are you doing
with your machine? Are you using capped or uncapped? Do you have your
virtual processors set up correctly? Is all your memory allocated to your
partitions?

Pete

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Subject: RE: CPF9E7F "usage limit exceeded" and performance

Hi Pete

Thanks for that. I realise it's a licensing issue, my question could
probably have been worded better. Other than knowing how to spell LPAR
I don't have a lot of knowledge on the ins-and-outs and allocation of
resources across it.

What I'm wondering is if, given the situation that causes the message to
be sent, the system would do anything to try and rectify the situation
and reallocate licensed CPU elsewhere.

For example if the limit across all partitions is 25 would it allow the
26th to be used indefinitely or prevent it from being used. Or
alternatively does anything akin to the old CFINT (I think it was
called) process kick in to limit the performance of the machine until
the licensing issue is resolved.

All the best

Jonathan




Pete Massiello <pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote :

This is a licensing issue and not a performance message.

Pete

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mason
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 6:44 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: CPF9E7F "usage limit exceeded" and performance

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2206093 This probably sounds like a
silly question, but would the generation of message "CPF9E7F i5/OS
also result in users experiencing severe response issues?

The message has the following details:

Message . . . . : i5/OS usage limit exceeded - operator action
required.
Cause . . . . . : The processor usage limit of 25 processors for
product
5722SS1, license term V5, feature 5051 has been exceeded.
-- Current processor usage across all active i5/OS partitions is
26.00.
-- Current processor usage for the local partition is 18.00.

A performance issue was noted yesterday and this message was found in
QHST at around the same time so I'm just wondering if it's relevant.

Thanks

Jonathan


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