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- From: markj@informix.com (Mark Jeske(Chicago Consultant))
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Online Checkpoint Issues
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.051715.6815@informix.com>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 05:17:15 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.124413.9713@xact.demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- In article <1992Sep3.124413.9713@xact.demon.co.uk> ptm@xact.demon.co.uk (Paul Thomas Mahoney) writes:
- >We run Online with about 200 users and I have some questions that I would
- >appreciate some comments to. The configuration is as follows:
- >
- > - The OS is SCO 3.2.2
- > - We have 9 client machines (Dell 33MHz 486) each supporting 25 users
- > running our application, written using ESQL/C.
- > - These clients call across the net to the server (Dell 50MHz 486 with
- > about 2GByte disk).
- >
- >Thus about 200 connections over I-Star to the engine. All databases use
- >unbuffered logging and there is a 525MByte tape to do continuous backup.
- >Overnight a level 0 backup is done to DAT. Shared memory is about 14MByte.
- >Checkpoint interval is 3 mins.
- >
- >Now the problem:
- >
- >Each checkpoint is taking 30-45 seconds to complete with about 3 megs of
- >log to be written to disk. As the checkpoint starts, all currently running
- >processes freeze. Then the disk activity takes place for 15-20 seconds and
- >then the user tasks wake up, some much more slowly that others.
- >
- >Looking at the priorities of the sqlturbo processes on the server during
- >checkpoints we find that, during normal running, they are in the mid 20's
- >but by the end of the checkpoint their priorities have dropped (risen?) to
- >65-70. I suppose this accounts for their slowness in re-starting.
-
- Try setting your LRU_MAX_DIRTY and LRU_MINDIRTY tbconfig params lower,
- something like 15 and 5 or 10 and 5. This should cause more background
- i/o by the page cleaners so there isn't as much to do at a checkpoint.
-
- mark
-