Networker

[Networker] Performance tuning

2009-06-17 07:39:51
Subject: [Networker] Performance tuning
From: JKK <johannes.karlsson AT SKYRR DOT IS>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:32:56 -0400
Hi.

I'm a little confused about why we are measuring far to much page/sec on 
memory seen from performance monitor.

The setup is like this:

Dell PE 1955
Dual Quadcore Xeon 2,66GHz
4GB RAM
Server 2003 Standards 32bit

40GB of indexes
400 clients
6 storage nodes

Here are the processes that use the most memory on the networker server.

dbsrv9.exe  290MB
javaw.exe   160MB
nsrjobd.exe 95MB
gstd.exe   60MB
Services.exe 45MB
nsrd.exe   32MB

Total memory commit charge is 1,2GB and has peaked at 2,5GB (4GB RAM 
installd)
Page file is 2 - 4GB

Why can this server be doing a memory:pages/sec average of 80 and topping 
at 260?

We also have high measurements on disk queue length, but thats probably 
just because the indexes need a faster disk.

Since it's a 32bit operating system, it's not going to help adding more 
memory, and the current RAM isn't used up anyway. The question is how can I 
make Networker make better use of what's there? I've been reading about 
memory:pages/sec, but the documentation is pretty fuzzy. It says nothing 
but add more RAM.

Johannes

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