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- From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
- Subject: Re: RS6000 almost stops with heavy disk access.
- Message-ID: <Nov19.192057.36189@cdsac.uucp>
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- Date: 19 Nov 1992 19:20:57 GMT
- References: <199211171808.AA15477@cc.ysu.edu>
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- In article <199211171808.AA15477@cc.ysu.edu> JOAOLSD@vm1.sdi.uam.es (Joao Luis Silva Damas) writes:
- >Hi,
- >we have two rs6000 (a 320H and 340) being used by different kinds of users.
- >Some of them do large molecular calculations which create HUGE (600700 MB) tem
- >porary files for the molecular integrals. When their program begins writing the
- >se huge files and then reading them as needed, our machines almost stop and oth
- >er users are almost unable to use the system. The slowness means 3060 sec to l
- >ogon, 1 minute for X windows to create a new window, a long time for even an ls
- >, etc. Most other users do a lot of editing so they actually need better respon
- >se time from the machine.
- >Is there anyway to correct this situation (besides killing those huge calculati
- >ons, of course)?
-
- Try turning on I/O Pacing, which is accessed via "smit system"
- fastpath, choose the "characterstics of the operating system" option.
- If you ask for help in the fields, it will give some information. We
- use 17 for the highwater mark and 5 for the lowwater mark (IBM
- suggested "startingpoint" values). Values for the highwater mark
- should be (according to IBM) along the formula '4*(num pages)+1'. The
- "AIX Tuning Gude" (IBM Publication SC23236501) contains further
- information about I/O Pacing, which is basically used to prevent large
- I/O operations from monopolizing the CPU. Overall system performance
- goes down when using this feature; it is used (in general) where you
- want to favor interactive users over long I/O bound jobs.
-
-
- L. Scott Emmons
- CableData Research Center
- csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
- KC6NFP
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