Re: QZDASOINIT and ODBC performance

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:52 09/13/1999 , Larry Bolhuis wrote:
>Dale,
>
>  I have played with moving this job around with little ill effect.
>Two of my customers use this job very heavily.  We moved the jobs to
>their own memory pool at a specific execution priority.  This allowed
>the real users (green screens) to out prioritize them at the same time
>as not fighting them for memory (this was the biggest problem as the
>QZDASOINIT tasks would often swell to well over 10MB PAG size).  It
>did slow the ODBC jobs a bit but allowed the rest of the system to run
>more smoothly.

We've done this also, but found we also needed to decrease (all) time 
slices from the shipped values by a factor of 10 on a single processor S30. 
ODBC requests now run in their own subsystem at priority 50 with a 
timeslice of 200 and all is reasonably well. We need a processor upgrade 
though.

Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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