Non-Critical:Quantifying the effect of change in "autoup" value.

From: sreenath sarikonda (sreeredhat_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/28/04

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    Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:54:47 -0700 (PDT)
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     Hello Gurus,
                 
    We host a financial application(something like
    portfolio management software or investment accounting
    system). We install one instance of the application
    per client with a specific user id.So whenever the
    clients are using this system the engine(user) uses
    atleast 40% of cpu and when it quartely reporting this
    process may run for 5 hrs.When two clients use it at
    same time one may use up 50% of cpu and the other may
    use up 40% of cpu. And if we see the vmstat output the
    run lenght queue hits very high(20)on a 4 cpu system
    example. This happens even one client(user) uses
    90% of cpu. Edited output for readability.There is lot
    of free memory in system.

     r b w in sy cs us sy id
     2 0 0 753 740 423 15 3 82
     36 0 0 4705 77836 81814 93 7 0
     34 1 0 3483 47341 47931 97 3 0
     34 0 0 2271 15493 15913 93 7 0
     34 0 0 3418 17419 17964 97 3 0

    I was reading the SPEC2000 benchmarks for SunFire
    systems and they optimized setting the

     autoup=900
     tune_t_fsflushr=1

    Do I get any benefit from changing this value interms
    of performance specific to our application.We have
    systems ranging from 4Gb ot 16Gb memory.
    I have a flexibility to change these values on a
    development system. But there wont be any feed back on
    performance increase.
    What should I be looking for to find any performance
    increase.
    What kind of system variables I should be changing
    specific to this application.
    Also which model of sun is best for this kind of
    application. As of now its running on a v440.

    Also could someone comment on these statistics. These
    statistics represent samples(in one month) of
    iostat,of a disk on which application is installed,
    taken only when system is atleast

    30% busy in cpu.This is a cpu intensive appllication
    and there is no disk i/o. However there is high
    asvc_t. Could this be attributed to that the i/o
    request was not processed by cpu as
    system is busy. Please give me additional comments
    which will give greater insight into how to look
    iostat output edited.Also disk under consideration is
    mirrored with SDS.
       
        kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b

        4.6 12.3 0.0 0.1 7.3 60.9 1 1
        0.0 16.0 0.1 0.0 26.9 6.8 5 1
        4.6 12.3 0.0 0.1 7.3 60.9 1 1
        0.0 11.0 0.4 0.1 128.0 21.4 21 3
        0.0 8.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 42.6 0 5
        4.6 12.3 0.0 0.1 7.3 60.9 1 1
        0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 7 0
        0.0 8.0 0.2 0.0 239.6 7.3 24 1
        4.6 12.3 0.0 0.1 7.3 60.8 1 1
        0.0 47.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.7 0 2
        0.0 48.1 0.4 0.0 106.9 9.1 22 3
       0.0 16.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.3 0 1
       4.6 12.3 0.0 0.1 7.3 60.8 1 1
       0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.6 0 1
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