RE: IFS Performance

[Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

1. The basic flaw is the NetServer job.  This job runs in *BASE out of the
box.  Open up OpsNav and navigate to TCP/IP Servers.  Find Netserver, right
click and select server jobs.  Now look at how these jobs start up, what
memory pool and Run priority.

2. What else does your Win2K Pro box do?  Is it only serving up this one
file?  How much memory and what type of disk drive(s)?  Now go get a
dedicate AS400 just for file serving and turn off everything else.  Tune it
correctly and see if it performs as well as the PC server.  Let's compare
thing equally and fairly.

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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 7:46 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IFS Performance


I find that IFS performance can be abysmal - and not too good at that! I was
at a place that was using ACT! for CRM, the version with its own database -
latest uses a bundled SQL Server, so cannot be put on an iSeries at all.
Anyway, I put the data files on a 270. We had *TYPE2 on all the IFS
(non-library, i.e.). It was a dog. When we moved the files to a Win2K Pro
box, it flew - and it was around 1 GHz processor.

So I think there is a basic flaw performance-wise in the IFS. I have no idea
why - *TYPE2 was supposed to help, but it is not enough for me to recommend
iSeries as a file server in a high-demand situation.