Re: V5R3M0 upgrade issues (PERFORMANCE Issues)

[Bryan Dietz <BDietz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What does the WRKPTFGRP screen look like?? make sure you are current on 
PTF's

Is the system tuning the memory pools?  dspsysval qpfradj


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Bryan Dietz 
Aktion Associates 



midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/06/2006 01:48:47 PM:

-> 
-> This isn't an RPG issue, so I'm replying to MIDRANGE-L.
-> 
-> I've had HORRIBLE performance since upgrading to V5R3. It's not one 
thing 
-> being slower, it's everything.  V5R3 is a terrible performer, there's 
no 
-> question about it.
-> 
-> Talking to various people, they told me:
-> 
-> suggestion: The cache battery on your disks may be dead.
-> reply: It's not.
-> 
-> 
-> suggestion: You need more memory, the upgrade to V5R3 was the straw 
that 
-> broke the camels back.
-> 
-> reply: I doubled the memory, and although it's faster than it was 
before, 
-> it's still much slower than V5R2
-> 
-> 
-> suggestion: You could X and Y and that'd make your applications more 
-> efficient.
-> 
-> reply: True, but this didn't change when I upgraded to V5R3. They were 
-> like this on V5R2, and writing new, more optimized, code for every 
program 
-> on my system just so that the operating system doesn't seem so slow 
seems 
-> like a workaround rather than a solution.
-> 
-> 
-> All of the "experts" I've talked to have told me that V5R3 performs 
just 
-> as well as V5R2.  I checked into this before I upgraded.  However, 
there's 
-> absolutely no question that this isn't true.  I suspect that somewhere 
in 
-> all the changes of the virtualization engine, they did something that 
-> slows it all down.
-> 
-> At this point, though, i'm stuck with it until we're able to budget for 
a 
-> faster computer.  (We're running a 270)
-> 
-> ---
-> Scott Klement  http://www.scottklement.com
-> 

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