Re: Cost of Activating Second Processor

[Sam_L <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kurt,

Do you have any metrics from before activating the second processor that 
you will compare against?

If we get to test a second processor I'd want to have something better 
than "it feels faster" or "doesn't seem to have made any difference".  I 
suppose maybe the elapsed time for our month-end process might be a good 
benchmark, but if you have an approach that you can share...

It's not that we have a sluggish machine--compiles are still 
satisfyingly fast, but some of our .NET apps that connect to the iSeries 
seem to be taking longer to get going, and the boss sees that.  Of 
course, the network guys have virtualized all the Windows servers and 
that might be something to do with it.  But it is seems very difficult 
to do any measurement on a mixed environment.

Sam

On 6/4/2013 4:44 PM, Anderson, Kurt wrote:
> Hi Sam,
>
> I don't have any answers for you, but we recently activated a second processor and so far we haven't noticed any impact.  I wasn't a part of the decision to get the additional processor, but there must be a way to get some metrics on your system to see if a second processor would provide an ROI.  Make sure you're up-to-date on PTFs.   We're working on the PTF thing (just about there) and the next step is that there are some reports that can be ran that cost a couple hundred bucks (so I hear).
>
> -Kurt