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- From: rreitzig@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Rolf Reitzig)
- Subject: SCO ODT Performance Problems
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.212106.15012@advtech.uswest.com>
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- Organization: U S WEST Information Technologies
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:21:06 GMT
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- I am posting a description of a problem I am experiencing with SCO ODT V1.1.
- Any replies are greatly appreciated.
-
- I am running SCO ODT V1.1 on a DEC 433MP computer with 24 MB memory and 1
- processor. This is DEC's modified version of ODT, but the same problem has
- occurred on true SCO ODT.
-
- Recently, I upgraded a site from a 486 computer with IDE drives running SCO
- Xenix to the aforementioned DEC/ODT system. ALL applications are the same,
- so the only changes have been the computer, and OS.
-
- After the switchover had been performed, the users (approximately 15 on dumb
- terminals) noticed that their response time has decreased severely. The users
- are running the same applications as before, and NO X-Terminals are involved
- as of now.
-
- Using sar and vmstat, the CPU usage shows > 80% idle, and no swapping or
- paging is occurring. Basically, the computer says it is running fine.
-
- After speaking to DEC technical support, I decided to try some benchmarks on
- disk access time. I found the following: copying a 25 MB file from fileA to
- fileB took 13 minutes on the Xenix computer, and 2.5 minutes on the DEC
- computer. Not bad. However, vmstat reported that the CPU was 93% idle, with
- 7% system useage on the Xenix computer, while the DEC computer was 0% idle, with
- 100% system useage. While the copying was taking place, a user could login to
- the Xenix computer with no delay, while a login on the DEC computer was
- insufferable slow. These tests were performed with 2 root users logged in, no
- users on the system at all.
-
- Basically, I have concluded that disk access operates at very high priority in
- ODT, and this is the cause of the performance problems.
-
- Am I on the right track? Any suggestions?
-
- Post, or mail replies to rreitzig@uswest.com
-
- Thank you in advance.
-