Re: Online 7.10 performance on Stratus and others

In article <3qg2a5$1d1e@firehose.mindspring.com>, ekelley@mindspring.com (Ed Kelley) wrote: >One thing you might look at is the PDQPRIORITY and MAXPDQPRIORITY >paramteres in your config file. If both are set to 100, then a query >will use 100% of the system's resources to complete that query. A >better alternative is to set PDQPRIORITY to "off". Then control the >actual usage on a job by job bases using the environmental variable >PDQPRIORITY. > >Before I did this, I had the same problem with 7.1 on an AT&T 3555 >server. Now, it smokes! > >Something else to think about is 7.1 is heavily multithreaded. A dual >processor system does not really take advantage of this. More cpus >greatly improve performance. > thanks for your fast response. We will run a few extra tests. We had PDQPRIORITY = OFF but we did not know it could be controlled by setting an environment variable. But... our performance degradation also occurs when a number of update processes is running. --------------------------------------- Met vriendelijke groet (dutch for: with kind regards) Jan-Evert Zondag email: zondag@xs4all.nl