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 Re: A question of load . . .
 Posted By: Norberto Valverde LLanos Date: Thursday, 31 August 2006, at 3:37 p.m.
In Response To: A question of load . . . (CHRIS SALCH)
  
Hola Chris!
 No estas usando los dbspaces temporales.
 DBSPACETEMP temp0:temp1 # Default temp dbspaces
 Cambiar los 2 puntos ":" por coma ","
 DBSPACETEMP temp0,temp1 # Default temp dbspaces
 Saludos!
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "CHRIS SALCH" <chrissalch@letu.edu>
 To: <ids@iiug.org>
 Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:17 PM
 Subject: A question of load . . . [7374]
 >
 > We have an HP9000/L2000 with 4 64bit PA-RISC chips running at 440Mhz and
 >
 > 5 Gigs of ram. We're running Inforimx 9.40.HC5 on HPUX 11i. We ran
 > into an issue on Monday where our database engine seemed to grind to a
 > halt. The machine itself responded reasonably to everything but
 > database queries. It seemed like anything having to do with extracting
 > or querying data in the database took exceptionally long to respond.
 > Interacting with onstat did not. Unfortunately, no one thought to save
 > off a copy of what onstat dumped during the incident.
 >
 > Our application is a touch heterogeneous, we have everything from cognos
 >
 > impromptu, MS Access "applications", a massive 4gl based application
 > using shm to connect, to perl dbi based connections running off the same
 >
 > database. The majority of users probably connect using shm connections
 > through the 4gl application but, MS Access makes an excessive number of
 > connections per user of a given application. Everything but the MS
 > Access and Congos Impromptu reports/applications are running from the
 > same machine as the engine. This machine also has an apache web server
 > to handle some cgi scripts, mostly perl code and the source of most of
 > our perl dbi connections.
 >
 > When our problem occured, we had a reasonably heavy load from all
 > around. The machine had approximatly 560 or so proccess running total,
 > some 300-400 connections appearing in onstat at any one instant, and
 > three oninit processes eating up 90% of the cpu time solid for about an
 > hour. Simple queries would take 2 to 3 minutes to complete. There
 > were no apparent harware problems with the equipment, no excessive
 > numbers of locks or full logical logs, no single process or small group
 > of processes that looked like they were doing anything out of the
 > ordinary.
 >
 > Fortunately, everything seemed to calm down again about an hour latter.
 > As a note, that day represented an exceptionally high load in comparison
 >
 > to our normal operations and this could all be related to having maxed
 > out what our hardware could handle.
 >
 > Is there any tuning that might be suggested for our system? I've
 > attached a copy of our config file. ( I've sense increased the frequency
 > of my
 > logging cron job )
 >
 > CONFIG FILE:
 >
 > #***********************************************************************
 > ***
 > #
 > # IBM Corporation
 > #
 > # Title: onconfig.std
 > # Description: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Configuration Parameters
 > #
 > #***********************************************************************
 > ***
 >
 > # Root Dbspace Configuration
 >
 > ROOTNAME root # Root dbspace name
 > ROOTPATH /opt/informix/dev/root.1 # Path for device containing root
 > dbspace
 > ROOTOFFSET 0 # Offset of root dbspace into device (Kbytes)
 > ROOTSIZE 1024000 # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes)
 >
 > # Disk Mirroring Configuration Parameters
 >
 > MIRROR 1 # Mirroring flag (Yes = 1, No = 0)
 > MIRRORPATH /opt/informix/dev/root.1-m # Path for device containing
 > mirrored root
 > MIRROROFFSET 0 # Offset into mirrored device (Kbytes)
 >
 > # Physical Log Configuration
 >
 > PHYSDBS root # Location (dbspace) of physical log
 > PHYSFILE 50000 # Physical log file size (Kbytes)
 >
 > # Logical Log Configuration
 >
 > LOGFILES 60 # Number of logical log files
 > LOGSIZE 10000 # Logical log size (Kbytes)
 >
 > # Diagnostics
 >
 > MSGPATH /opt/informix/Logs/cars.log # System message log file path
 > CONSOLE /dev/console # System console message path
 >
 > # To automatically backup logical logs, edit alarmprogram.sh and set
 > # BACKUPLOGS=Y
 > ALARMPROGRAM /opt/informix/etc/log_full.sh # Alarm program path
 > TBLSPACE_STATS 1 # Maintain tblspace statistics
 >
 > # System Archive Tape Device
 >
 > TAPEDEV /dev/rmt/1m # Tape device path
 > TAPEBLK 32 # Tape block size (Kbytes)
 > TAPESIZE 0 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes)
 >
 > # Log Archive Tape Device
 >
 > LTAPEDEV /dev/rmt/0m # Log tape device path
 > LTAPEBLK 32 # Log tape block size (Kbytes)
 > LTAPESIZE 0 # Max amount of data to put on log tape (Kbytes)
 >
 > # Optical
 >
 > STAGEBLOB # Informix Dynamic Server staging area
 >
 > # System Configuration
 >
 > SERVERNUM 0 # Unique id corresponding to a OnLine instance
 > DBSERVERNAME paul # Name of default database server
 > DBSERVERALIASES carsitcp # List of alternate dbservernames
 > NETTYPE ipcshm,2,500,CPU # Configure poll thread(s) for nettype
 > NETTYPE soctcp,1,100,NET # Configure poll thread(s) for nettype
 > DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT 60 # Max time to wait of lock in distributed env.
 > RESIDENT 1 # Forced residency flag (Yes = 1, No = 0)
 >
 > MULTIPROCESSOR 1 # 0 for single-processor, 1 for
 > multi-processor
 > NUMCPUVPS 3 # Number of user (cpu) vps
 > SINGLE_CPU_VP 0 # If non-zero, limit number of cpu vps
 > to one
 >
 > NOAGE 1 # Process aging
 > AFF_SPROC 0 # Affinity start processor
 > AFF_NPROCS 0 # Affinity number of processors
 >
 > # Shared Memory Parameters
 >
 > LOCKS 256000 # Maximum number of locks
 > BUFFERS 90000 # Maximum number of shared buffers
 > NUMAIOVPS 8 # Number of IO vps
 > PHYSBUFF 32 # Physical log buffer size (Kbytes)
 > LOGBUFF 32 # Logical log buffer size (Kbytes)
 > LOGSMAX 120 # Maximum number of logical log files
 > CLEANERS 8 # Number of buffer cleaner processes
 > SHMBASE 0x0 # Shared memory base address
 > SHMVIRTSIZE 196608 # initial virtual shared memory segment size
 > SHMADD 16384 # Size of new shared memory segments
 > (Kbytes)
 > SHMTOTAL 0 # Total shared memory (Kbytes).
 > 0=>unlimited
 > CKPTINTVL 900 # Check point interval (in sec)
 > LRUS 8 # Number of LRU queues
 > LRU_MAX_DIRTY 4 # LRU percent dirty begin cleaning limit
 > LRU_MIN_DIRTY 2 # LRU percent dirty end cleaning limit
 > TXTIMEOUT 0x12c # Transaction timeout (in sec)
 > STACKSIZE 64 # Stack size (Kbytes)
 >
 > # Dynamic Logging
 > # DYNAMIC_LOGS:
 > # 2 : server automatically add a new logical log when necessary. (ON)
 > # 1 : notify DBA to add new logical logs when necessary. (ON)
 > # 0 : cannot add logical log on the fly. (OFF)
 > #
 > # When dynamic logging is on, we can have higher values for
 > LTXHWM/LTXEHWM,
 > # because the server can add new logical logs during long transaction
 > rollback.
 > # However, to limit the number of new logical logs being added,
 > LTXHWM/LTXEHWM
 > # can be set to smaller values.
 > #
 > # If dynamic logging is off, LTXHWM/LTXEHWM need to be set to smaller
 > values
 > # to avoid long transaction rollback hanging the server due to lack of
 > logical
 > # log space, i.e. 50/60 or lower.
 >
 > DYNAMIC_LOGS 0
 > LTXHWM 45
 > LTXEHWM 55
 >
 > # System Page Size
 > # BUFFSIZE - OnLine no longer supports this configuration parameter.
 > # To determine the page size used by OnLine on your platform
 > # see the last line of output from the command, 'onstat -b'.
 >
 > # Recovery Variables
 > # OFF_RECVRY_THREADS:
 > # Number of parallel worker threads during fast recovery or an offline
 > restore.
 > # ON_RECVRY_THREADS:
 > # Number of parallel worker threads during an online restore.
 >
 > OFF_RECVRY_THREADS 10 # Default number of offline worker threads
 > ON_RECVRY_THREADS 1 # Default number of online worker threads
 >
 > # Data Replication Variables
 > DRINTERVAL 30 # DR max time between DR buffer flushes (in sec)
 > DRTIMEOUT 30 # DR network timeout (in sec)
 > DRLOSTFOUND /opt/informix/etc/dr.lostfound # DR lost+found file path
 >
 > # CDR Variables
 > CDR_EVALTHREADS 1,2 # evaluator threads (per-cpu-vp,additional)
 > CDR_DSLOCKWAIT 5 # DS lockwait timeout (seconds)
 > CDR_QUEUEMEM 4096 # Maximum amount of memory for any CDR queue (Kbytes)
 > CDR_NIFCOMPRESS 0 # Link level compression (-1 never, 0 none, 9 max)
 > CDR_SERIAL 0 # Serial Column Sequence
 > CDR_DBSPACE # dbspace for syscdr database
 > CDR_QHDR_DBSPACE # CDR queue dbspace (default same as catalog)
 > CDR_QDATA_SBSPACE # List of CDR queue smart blob spaces
 >
 > # CDR_MAX_DYNAMIC_LOGS
 > # -1 => unlimited
 > # 0 => disable dynamic log addition
 > # >0 => limit the no. of dynamic log additions with the specified value.
 >
 > # Max dynamic log requests that CDR can make within one server session.
 >
 > CDR_MAX_DYNAMIC_LOGS 0 # Dynamic log addition disabled by default
 >
 > # Backup/Restore variables
 > BAR_ACT_LOG /tmp/bar_act.log # ON-Bar Log file - not in /tmp please
 > BAR_DEBUG_LOG /tmp/bar_dbug.log # ON-Bar Debug Log - not in /tmp please
 > BAR_MAX_BACKUP 0
 > BAR_RETRY 1
 > BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT 10
 > BAR_XFER_BUF_SIZE 31
 > RESTARTABLE_RESTORE off
 > BAR_PROGRESS_FREQ 0
 >
 > # Informix Storage Manager variables
 > ISM_DATA_POOL ISMData
 > ISM_LOG_POOL ISMLogs
 >
 > # Read Ahead Variables
 > RA_PAGES # Number of pages to attempt to read ahead
 > RA_THRESHOLD # Number of pages left before next group
 >
 > # DBSPACETEMP:
 > # OnLine equivalent of DBTEMP for SE. This is the list of dbspaces
 > # that the OnLine SQL Engine will use to create temp tables etc.
 > # If specified it must be a colon separated list of dbspaces that exist
 > # when the OnLine system is brought online. If not specified, or if
 > # all dbspaces specified are invalid, various ad hoc queries will create
 >
 > # temporary files in /tmp instead.
 >
 > DBSPACETEMP temp0:temp1 # Default temp dbspaces
 >
 > # DUMP*:
 > # The following parameters control the type of diagnostics information
 > which
 > # is preserved when an unanticipated error condition (assertion failure)
 >
 > occurs
 > # during OnLine operations.
 > # For DUMPSHMEM, DUMPGCORE and DUMPCORE 1 means Yes, 0 means No.
 >
 > DUMPDIR /tmp # Preserve diagnostics in this directory
 > DUMPSHMEM 1 # Dump a copy of shared memory
 > DUMPGCORE 0 # Dump a core image using 'gcore'
 > DUMPCORE 0 # Dump a core image (Warning:this aborts OnLine)
 > DUMPCNT 1 # Number of shared memory or gcore dumps for
 >
 > # a single user's session
 >
 > FILLFACTOR 90 # Fill factor for building indexes
 >
 > # method for OnLine to use when determining current time
 > USEOSTIME 0 # 0: use internal time(fast), 1: get time from OS(slow)
 >
 > # Parallel Database Queries (pdq)
 > MAX_PDQPRIORITY 100 # Maximum allowed pdqpriority
 > DS_MAX_QUERIES # Maximum number of decision support queries
 > DS_TOTAL_MEMORY # Decision support memory (Kbytes)
 > DS_MAX_SCANS 1048576 # Maximum number of decision support scans
 > DATASKIP off # List of dbspaces to skip
 >
 > # OPTCOMPIND
 > # 0 => Nested loop joins will be preferred (where
 > # possible) over sortmerge joins and hash joins.
 > # 1 => If the transaction isolation mode is not
 > # "repeatable read", optimizer behaves as in (2)
 > # below. Otherwise it behaves as in (0) above.
 > # 2 => Use costs regardless of the transaction isolation
 > # mode. Nested loop joins are not necessarily
 > # preferred. Optimizer bases its decision purely
 > # on costs.
 > OPTCOMPIND 0 # To hint the optimizer
 >
 > DIRECTIVES 1 # Optimizer DIRECTIVES ON (1/Default) or OFF (0)
 >
 > ONDBSPACEDOWN 2 # Dbspace down option: 0 = CONTINUE, 1 = ABORT, 2
 > = WAIT
 > LBU_PRESERVE 1 # Preserve last log for log backup
 > OPCACHEMAX 0 # Maximum optical cache size (Kbytes)
 >
 > # HETERO_COMMIT (Gateway participation in distributed transactions)
 > # 1 => Heterogeneous Commit is enabled
 > # 0 (or any other value) => Heterogeneous Commit is disabled
 > HETERO_COMMIT 0
 >
 > SBSPACENAME # Default smartblob space name - this is where
 > blobs
 >
 > # go if no sbspace is specified when the smartblob is
 >
 > # created. It is also used by some datablades as
 >
 > # the location to put their smartblobs.
 > SYSSBSPACENAME # Default smartblob space for use by the
 > Informix
 >
 > # Server. This is used primarily for Informix Server
 >
 > # system statistics collection.
 >
 > BLOCKTIMEOUT 3600 # Default timeout for system block
 > SYSALARMPROGRAM /opt/informix/etc/evidence.sh # System Alarm
 > program path
 >
 > # Optimization goal: -1 = ALL_ROWS(Default), 0 = FIRST_ROWS
 > OPT_GOAL -1
 >
 > ALLOW_NEWLINE 0 # embedded newlines(Yes = 1, No = 0 or anything
 > but 1)
 >
 > #
 > # The following are default settings for enabling Java in the database.
 > # Replace all occurrences of /usr/informix with the value
 > of /opt/informix.
 >
 > #VPCLASS jvp,num=1 # Number of JVPs to start with
 >
 > JVPJAVAHOME /opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/jre # JRE
 > installation root directory
 > JVPHOME /opt/informix/extend/krakatoa # Krakatoa installation
 > directory
 >
 > JVPPROPFILE /opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/.jvpprops # JVP property
 > file
 > JVPLOGFILE /opt/informix/Logs/jvp.log # JVP log file.
 >
 > JDKVERSION 1.3 # JDK version supported by this server
 >
 > # The path to the JRE libraries relative to JVPJAVAHOME
 > JVPJAVALIB /lib/PA_RISC
 >
 > # The JRE libraries to use for the Java VM
 >
 > JVPJAVAVM hpi:server:java:net:zip:jpeg
 >
 > # use JVPARGS to change Java VM configuration
 > #To display jni call
 > #JVPARGS -verbose:jni
 >
 > # Classpath to use upon Java VM start-up (use _g version for debugging)
 >
 > #JVPCLASSPATH
 > /opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/krakatoa_g.jar:/opt/informix/extend/krakat
 > oa/jdbc_g.jar
 > JVPCLASSPATH
 > /opt/informix/extend/krakatoa/krakatoa.jar:/opt/informix/extend/krakatoa
 > /jdbc.jar
 >
 >
 > ************************************************************************
 > *******
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Messages In This Thread
 - A question of load . . .
 CHRIS SALCH -- Thursday, 31 August 2006, at 1:17 p.m.
- RE: A question of load . . .
 Jack Parker -- Thursday, 31 August 2006, at 1:25 p.m.
 - Re: A question of load . . .
 Eric Rowell -- Thursday, 31 August 2006, at 1:32 p.m.
 - Re: A question of load . . .
 ART KAGEL, BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN -- Thursday, 31 August 2006, at 2:42 p.m.
 - Re: A question of load . . .
 Norberto Valverde LLanos -- Thursday, 31 August 2006, at 3:37 p.m.
 - Re: A question of load . . .
 Dimitar Bachvarov -- Friday, 1 September 2006, at 6:25 a.m.
 - Re: A question of load . . .
 FRANK LAI -- Wednesday, 27 September 2006, at 5:34 p.m.
  
  
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