I/O Causing CPU, Memory, Disk Bottlenecks
90% of all system performance issues are caused by excessive, unnecessary I/O performed by application software!
• High CPU Utilization• Memory Faulting• Slow Interactive Response Time• Long Duration of Batch Jobs• High Disk Actuator Arm Activity
Application with SQL that Reads 1,000,000 Records to Select 1,000 Records
Tune Application Workload Before Hardware Tuning
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Enhance Efficiency of Applications…
Tune Hardware Around Appropriate Workload
Identify Top Causes of
Bottlenecks
Identify Top Causes of Bottlenecks
Understand Make-up of Workload
Understand Make-up of Workload
Create List of Top Priorities
Create List of Top Priorities1. Interactive Threshold Being Exceeded2. Daytime SQL and Queries Impacting Response Time3. Nightly Processing Running for 5 Hours4. Payroll Job Running for 6 hours per Location5. AR Aging Report Killing System
Interactive Response Time
63% - Interactive response time is usually OK, but random slowdowns occur. Can’t find cause – solution appears to be a $100,000 interactive feature card.
Interactive SQL &
Queries #1
Interactive SQL &
Queries #2
Interactive SQL &
Queries #3
Interactive SQL &
Queries #4
HA Can’t Keep Up
51% - Journal receivers are 10 GB per day, HA can’t keep up.
Journal Analyze
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Journal Analyze
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Journal Analyze
r #3
Journal Analyze
r #4
Java & JDBC Killing System
46% - New web app uses Java & JDBC, when web lookup pages are hit, user waits 2 minutes. System was fine until new app went live.
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Application
Analyzer
Job Logs Wasting Resources
32% - 500,000 pages of job logs generated every day, logs rarely used, wasting disk space, CPU & I/O.
Spool Analyzer #1
Spool Analyzer #2
Spool Analyzer #3
Job Description &
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Message Logging
Q&A
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