Re: Can the subsystem a job is running in make it run slowly?

["James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The latest:

The customer got back to us on the idea of trying a different subsystem:

> The reason why we don't want it in QINTER is that we don't want it 
> taking up interactive resources from our nightly operations as our 
> China offices are . . . <censored; would reveal too much about who 
> the customer is>.

My answer to that was to the general effect that:

> The fact remains that it is running in a subsystem that appears to be
> starved for resources (and given what normally runs in that
> subsystem, probably intentionally so . . . ).
>
> It is taking hours when it should be taking minutes. At present, the
> subsystem it's running in is the prime suspect for that. Running a
> single test in another subsystem is not the same thing as permanently
> moving it into that subsystem.

Further suggestions on how to test the "subsystem is the cause" 
hypothesis would be appreciated.

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JHHL