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$$Buy more interactive CPW. Sorry, but there are no legal means of performing that task.
CFINTxx is IBM's method of telling you that you've exceeded your processor's threshold for interactive processing.
I hear V4R5 will only penalize interactive jobs when you've exceeded the threshold.
Regards,
Jon A. Erickson
Sr. Programmer Analyst
800.COM Inc.
1516 NW Thurman St
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-----Original Message-----
From: Don [mailto:dr2@cssas400.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 11:23 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: AS/400 tuning question
If you find a way, I wanna know how...:)
Don in DC
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Al Barsa, Jr. wrote:
> At 01:15 PM 06/28/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>
> No.
>
> Al
>
>
> >Is it possible to just put the CFINITxx job on hold? Or lower it's priority
> >to a point that would not hog up the CPU as much?
> >
> >Joe Giusto II
> >Patuxent Publishing Company
> >10750 Little Patuxent Parkway
> >Columbia, MD 21044
> >mailto:JGiusto@patuxent.com <mailto:jgiusto@patuxent.com>
> >http://www.lifegoeson.com <http://lifegoeson.com>
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: KirkG@pacinfosys.com [SMTP:KirkG@pacinfosys.com]
> >Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 11:00 AM
> >To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> >Subject: Re: AS/400 tuning question
> >
> >IBM has not yielded on the server vs interactive. Once you exceed your
> >interact quota the system will start a task/job called CFINITxx, XX being
> >the CPU # if I remember correctly. This job(s) will take more and more cpu
> >resource as the interactive work climbs. The penalty get pretty stiff. I
> >don't remember the numbers but I'm sure some here has them handy. Example
> >would be if your machine has 100 CPW and it's divided 80/20
> >server/interactive and your load was 0/40 the cpu would be maxed out
> >running at 100% with that CFINITxx hogging the system.
> >
> >
> >
> >---------------------------------
> >Kirk Goins
> >IBM Certified AS/400 Technical Solutions
> >Pacific Information Systems - An IBM Premier Business Partner
> >503-290-2104 kirkg@pacinfosys.com
> >"WE KNOW TECHNOLOGY"
> >---------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Pete Hall <pbhall@execpc.com>
> >Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> >06/24/00 05:23 PM
> >Please respond to MIDRANGE-L
> >
> >
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > cc:
> > Subject: Re: AS/400 tuning question
> >
> >At 17:00 06/24/2000 , Joe Teff wrote:
> > >I have not done any real AS/400 tuning for a couple of years and I've
> >never
> > >tuned one of the server models. A friend asked me today if tuning a
> >server
> > >model was any different than a regular model and I couldn't answer him.
> > >Other than looking for a blue stripe, I'm not sure if I could even
> >identify a
> > >server model. I know that their is a governor of some type that punishes
> > >interactive jobs. Is that done with software in OS? Will it stop you from
> > >allocating more memory to certain subsystems or setting high priorities
> >to
> > >interactive jobs. TIA.
> >
> >All I can tell you is that based on my recent experience with tuning and
> >S30, and later a 730 (we upgraded the S30), there is no difference. I
> >watched IBM install the governor during the upgrade. At least on a 730, I
> >don't think it has anything to do with interactive vs batch load. It is a
> >hardware device that communicates with the CPU, and it determines the
> >processor feature code. Without it, the processor doesn't function at all.
> >
> >My subjective impression is that there is definitely an improvement in
> >throughput in batch as opposed to doing the same things interactively, but
> >
> >I can't guess why this would be. I have never observed the cycle gobbling
> >behavior that many complained about when the server models were first
> >introduced. My theory is that IBM yielded to customer pressure and no
> >longer enforces interactive limitations by running jobs that eat CPU
> >cycles. You can control memory pools and priorities on server models just
> >as you can on any other AS/400.
> >
> >
> >Pete Hall
> >pbhall@execpc.com
> >http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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