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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:46:11 CET
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- From: "Jules Wolfrat" <SSCP0059@HASARA11.BITNET>
- Subject: long response times under VM
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- We experience the following problem on VM and would like to know if
- somebody on the list has some advice of how to handle the situation.
-
- We are running VM/XA 2.1 under LPAR on an IBM 9000-720 (202 MB RSTORE,
- 464 MB XSTORE for the VM partition and all CPU's shared, but VM using
- almost all CPU cycles, 550%). Under VM we have a small number of active
- CMS users (10-50), some 100 service machines and 3 AIX/370 guest systems
- (PAIX), from which two are batch servers. The main load on the
- system comes from big batch jobs (both memory and CPU cycles) on
- both VM and AIX.
-
- What we see is that when a new job is started which asks for a large
- working set in a short time, VM seems to stop all user activity.
- Response times can be as long 30 seconds. Once the new situation has
- settled (the job has build up its WS) response becomes normal again.
- All VM activity seems to be dedicated to freeing up storage
- for the new job, while only the new job apparently is scheduled and
- thus is filling up the free pages. What I would like to
- see is that the new job in someway could be slowed down in building up
- its memory, e.g. if dWS/dt > x then put the job in the E-list or
- something equivalent.
-
- Does anybody know a way to handle the above situation? I have
- appended our SRM settings below.
-
- IABIAS : INTENSITY=100; DURATION=6
- LDUBUF : Q1=100% Q2=75% Q3=50%
- STORBUF: Q1=200% Q2=200% Q3=200%
- DSPBUF : Q1=32767 Q2=32767 Q3=32767
- DISPATCHING MINOR TIMESLICE = 1 MS
-
- Jules Wolfrat
- SARA (Academic Computing Services Amsterdam)
- P.O. BOX 4613 Phone : +31 20 5923028
- 1009 AP Amsterdam Fax : +31 20 6683167
- The Netherlands E-Mail: wolfrat@sara.nl
-