RE: WAS 5.1 Express Performance -- WEB400

Dave,

Search through the mailing list archives at http://www.ignite400.org.
One of the emails was called "WebSphere and Memory" from May 2005 and
contains information straight from IBM on memory considerations (the
Ignite/400 mailing list has IBM's ear and occasionally some really cool
info gets posted from IBM). I know there's information in there about
not using partial processors as well. It may be a link to an IBM white
paper.

Matt 

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On Behalf Of Dave Reiher/prairiefarms
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:39 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: [WEB400] WAS 5.1 Express Performance

Matt,

Yeah, I checked that earlier, the non-DB page rate is just over 100.
Right now the partition is only getting about 768MB of memory and it
does 
not have a full processor allocated.

I personally think beefing up this partition will make things better. I
am 
looking for opinions like yours to help me plead my case.
However, our remote locations all have terrible PC's in place, Pentium
2's 
and 3's running Win98. I think this is another big part of the problem.
But I don't think a (mostly) Windows guy like me is going to sell the 
thought of buying new pc's to the rest of the gang in my 400 shop.

The PC's have caused all sorts of grief, especially printing. Even
though 
the download for IBM's AFP viewer says that it supports Win98, believe
me 
it does not.
I switched over to TIFF for printing, works great on one 98 machine, but

then on the other machine I have to save files to hard drive before 
viewing the TIFF's, otherwise I get an invalid document name when it
tries 
to open it. Right now I am having our folks jump through hoops to get 
their reports printing.

PDF should work, but I get errors because some java classes are missing,

it looks like it is looking for classes on the 400 that I am pointing
them 
to, but this 400 is not even running iSeries for Web, which I assume is 
why the PDF server could not start. Then again, PDF's might turn out to
be 
slower on PC's that I am dealing with...........


    Dave Reiher
    System Analyst
    Prairie Farms Dairy - Corporate
    Ph: 217.854.2547 ext. 254
    dreiher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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Dave,

Did you allocate a full processor to this partition? If not, Java
performance will suffer. How much memory did you allocation? Simple apps
need at least 1 GB for decent performance. Watch the non-DB page rate on
WRKSYSSTS. IBM says keep it under 100 for best performance.

Is performance okay locally? If it's remote people having problems, it
may just be limitations of the connection they are using or network
configuration issues.

Matt 

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Dave Reiher/prairiefarms
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:59 AM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] WAS 5.1 Express Performance

Anyone have any thoughts or know of any good resources on fine tuning
WAS 
5.1 Express Application server performance?

I am running iSeries for Web on a small partition here, in my config for

iSeries for Web I am redirecting to another AS400 off site. It just
seems 
to run a little bit slow for our folks in the field. Is there anything I

can do to fine tune the performance? Would throwing more resources at my

partition do any good? The performance doesn't seem to take a hit on the

400 partition except when starting or stopping an instance. I hate buy 
more memory or allocate more only to infd out it doesn't do me any good.

Any thoughts??

    Dave Reiher
    System Analyst
    Prairie Farms Dairy - Corporate
    Ph: 217.854.2547 ext. 254
    dreiher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx