RE: Power HA and Journaling.

When reading my own answer I noticed that I forget to address your question. FRCRATIO(1) will force the system to use synchronous writes to force the data to your disks. You don't want to wait for this, you would like your applications to move on. Journalling ( especially with #42 ) will let your applications move on without waiting for the data being written.

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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefan Tageson
Sent: den 29 januari 2015 18:30
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Power HA and Journaling.

Hi,

If you go all in for journalling please consider a low cost feature of xxxxSS1: #42 HA Journal performance.
When installed, and when your journals being set at JRNCACHE(*YES) it will create a memory buffer of about 160kb/disc arm.
I've been working with performance analysis for ages and my history says that you can eliminate around 25-50% of system writes by doing this. The other good thing is that the 160k buffer writes will be async writes instead of sync writes to the journal.
If you happens to run a bank drop this as there is a possibility of lose transactions still in the buffer when/if system goes south.
The default timeout ( can be changed ) is 30 seconds so during low transaction rate periods your transactions will not stay in the buffer longer than that. Most of the times when I have noticed a read/write ratio of 1 to 10 - journaling is the problem and #42 is the answer. Not SSD or flash disc.

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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Horn, Jim
Sent: den 29 januari 2015 17:11
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Power HA and Journaling.

We had this discussion with them in the past. We managed to get buy without errors without journaling but -

I said - "why not a force ratio of 1 on the files"
they said - "too slow"
I said "why is it slower than journaling"
Received no response I could understand other than "trust us"
Anyone have an explanation I might be able to understand?

Jim

message: 5
date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:43:00 +0000
from: Stefan Tageson <Stefan.Tageson@xxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Power HA and Journaling.

Hi Rick,

Short answer: Due to the fact of Single Level Storage, many objects will reside in memory. Journaling is the way of forcing them to disc where PowerHA can replicate them.

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