ADSM-L

Re: Pct. Comm. wait

1999-12-10 18:15:47
Subject: Re: Pct. Comm. wait
From: "Thomas A. La Porte" <tlaporte AT ANIM.DREAMWORKS DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 15:15:47 -0800
Although the session seems to be spending most of its time
waiting, you might look at a detailed
instrumentation trace on the client (command-line param:
-traceflags=instr_client_detail).
This will give you output similar to below, giving an indication
This will give you output similar to below, giving an indication
of what things are happening on the client side:

ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager
Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.7


------------------------------------------------------------------
Final Detailed Instrumentation statistics
Final Detailed Instrumentation statistics

Elapsed time:     8.334 sec

Section      Total Time(sec)  Average Time(msec)  Frequency used

------------------------------------------------------------------
Client Setup        0.501          500.5              1
Client Setup        0.501          500.5              1
Process Dirs        4.576           23.1            198
Solve Tree          0.000            0.0              0
Compute             0.009            0.0            190
Transaction         0.939            1.2            814
BeginTxn Verb       0.000            0.0              1
File I/O            0.532            2.3            235
Compression         0.000            0.0              0
Data Verb           0.743            3.9            190
Confirm Verb        0.000            0.0              0
EndTxn Verb         1.008         1007.7              1
Client Cleanup      0.028           27.8              1

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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Rick Modisette wrote:
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Rick Modisette wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Backups are taking forever. The Pct. Comm wait is always around 99%. Can 
>someone
>please tell me what its waiting for? I must be overlooking something. Attached
>is info for one of the nodes. The NT nodes seem to do better, but Pct. Comm.
>wait is still around 40%-60% for them. The network is 100MB ethernet, recently
>upgraded from 10MB ethernet. If someone could point me in the right direction 
>of
>where to look it would be greatly appreciated.
>
>TIA,
>
>Rick Modisette
>
>********************************************************************************
>********
>
>                     Node Name: FIN_INFORMIX
>                      Platform: XOpen/ADSM
>               Client OS Level: AIX 4.1
>                Client Version: Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.7
>            Policy Domain Name: STANDARD
>         Last Access Date/Time: 12/10/99   11:50:34
>        Days Since Last Access: <1
>        Password Set Date/Time: 11/10/99   13:47:20
>       Days Since Password Set: 30
>         Invalid Sign-on Count: 0
>                       Locked?: No
>                       Contact:
>                   Compression: Yes
>       Archive Delete Allowed?: Yes
>        Backup Delete Allowed?: No
>        Registration Date/Time: 11/10/99   13:47:20
>     Registering Administrator: ADMIN
>Last Communication Method Used: Tcp/Ip
>   Bytes Received Last Session: 2.00 M
>       Bytes Sent Last Session: 2,026
>Duration of Last Session (sec): 1,333.34
>   Pct. Idle Wait Last Session: 0.94
>  Pct. Comm. Wait Last Session: 97.10
>  Pct. Media Wait Last Session: 0.00
>                     Optionset:
>                           URL:
>                     Node Type: Client
>    Password Expiration Period:
>********************************************************************************
>******
>
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