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Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 1 of 131 Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide Abstract GPA consol

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 10 of 131 What’s New in This Manual New and Changed Information The H02ABM ve

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 100 of 131 Example 4-22. Processor/Disk Configuration Diagram for \NODEC Be

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 101 of 131 Example 4-23. Processor/Disk Configuration Diagram for \NODEC Af

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 102 of 131 Process Move Recommendations In the section of the report shown in

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 103 of 131 Example 4-25. Process Move Recommendations for \NODEB Process Mo

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 104 of 131 GPA calculates the difference in the consumption of the primary an

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 105 of 131 Expected System Performance After Tuning Changes The next section

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 106 of 131 PCB COUNT : 84 89 42 49 TRANSIENTS : 4

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 107 of 131 TRANSIENTS : 5 3 3 8 HALT IMPACT: MEMORY

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 108 of 131 Interpreting the Optional Report GPA enables you to select an opti

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 109 of 131 Optional Report Section for the SYSTEM Class In Example 4-30, you

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 11 of 131 About This Manual This manual describes the Guardian Performance An

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 110 of 131 because they hold the bulk of the primary disk processes. You can

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 111 of 131 SYSTEM Queue Distribution Analysis - Descending QueueLen Cl

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 112 of 131 program RCAPS510, you can see that CPU 1 has only one copy of the

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 113 of 131 Example 4-34. Receive and Queue Portions of the Detail Section f

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 114 of 131 Implementing GPA Tuning Recommendations On the basis of its analys

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 115 of 131 The Detail System Performance Score Reports The Detail System Perf

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 116 of 131 Negative Contributing Factors to CPU Score The CPU Subsystem Score

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 117 of 131 (4) Disp: The dispatch rate of a CPU is over the dispatch rate li

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 118 of 131 Disk Cache Performance Score Grading The Cache Hit Rate of each di

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 119 of 131 Negative Contributing Factors to Disk Volume Score This subsection

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 12 of 131 Notation Conventions Hypertext Links Blue underline is used to indi

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 120 of 131 (5) Overbs: An overbusy disk with high queue time or a disk wit

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 121 of 131 CPU Failure Simulation Example 4-40 is a detailed report displayi

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 122 of 131 Server Process Analysis for the Individual CPUs Example 4-41 is a

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 123 of 131 Example 4-42 is a detailed report displaying the Server Process A

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 124 of 131 Dynamic Server Process Analysis Example 4-43 is a detailed report

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 125 of 131 Disk Cache Change Analysis Example 4-44 is a detailed report displ

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 126 of 131 CPU Cache Change Analysis Example 4-45 is a detailed report displa

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 127 of 131 Error Reports The final kind of report that GPA provides is the er

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 128 of 131 Glossary #OUT The GPA output file. blocked request A request that

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 129 of 131 GPA The program module that performs the system analysis. index le

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 13 of 131 INT[ERRUPTS] A group of items enclosed in brackets is a list from w

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 130 of 131 PIN A Process Identification Number is the numeric value that iden

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 131 of 131 SCFIN A SCF command file that contains SCF PRIMARY and SCF ALTER D

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 14 of 131 LISTOPENS SU $process-name.#su-name Quotation marks around a symbol

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 15 of 131 error := FILENAME_COMPARE_ ( filename1:length !i:i

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 16 of 131 Notation for Messages This list summarizes the notation conventions

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 17 of 131 obj-type obj-name state changed to state, caused by { Object | Oper

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 18 of 131 Notation for Management Programming Interfaces This list summarizes

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 19 of 131 Section 1: Introducing GPA The Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA)

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 2 of 131 Document History Part Number Product Version Published 544541-006 H

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 20 of 131 GPA Benefits and Features Among the user benefits offered by GPA ar

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 21 of 131 How GPA Works GPA bases its analysis on system performance data col

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 22 of 131 Figure 1-1 How GPA works Figure1-1 Illustrates the GPA anal

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 23 of 131 whole and also separately analyzes each subsystem with respect to a

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 24 of 131 Standard Report Sections The GPA standard report provides performan

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 25 of 131 Optional Report Sections In the GPA Optional Report, you specify th

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 26 of 131 Error Reports The GPALOG.101 file informs you of system errors and

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 27 of 131 Exclude File The exclude file (EXCLUDE.101) is used to specify proc

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 28 of 131 File Specifications The following files will be installed within yo

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 29 of 131 GPA Requirements GPA does not have to be run on the system being an

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 3 of 131 Table of Contents Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide .

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 30 of 131 Section 2: Running GPA This section begins with an overview of the

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 31 of 131 Establishing the Measurement Period The purpose of this step is to

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 32 of 131 Running Measure In this step, you run Measure to collect performanc

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 33 of 131 Running GPA Normally GPA does not require specific installation. I

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 34 of 131 Tuning the System with PUPIN or SCFIN In this final step of the pro

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 35 of 131 The GPA Pre-Requisites 1. Establish the measurement window and dat

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 36 of 131 where: measfile is the fully qualified file name you give to the

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 37 of 131 4> MEASCOM When the MEASCOM prompt appears, enter the following

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 38 of 131 The GPA Runtime Parameters The following is a list of parameters in

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 39 of 131 Important note: The following 4 PROCESS-WINDOW params are dependent

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 4 of 131 Section 2: Running GPA ...

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 40 of 131 Important note: As of versions ABK/ABL the following 4 MEASURE-FILE

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 41 of 131 7> PARAM classname section-type classname specifies the process

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 42 of 131 PUPIN and PUPBAK or SCFIN and SCFBAK files. You can direct the repo

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 43 of 131 Section 3: Description of GPA Reports Overview of GPA Reports GPA r

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 44 of 131 Note This applies only to the process class optional reports: SYSTE

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 45 of 131 GPA Standard Report The following information describes in detail

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 46 of 131 Node Characteristics This subsection of the report (Example 3-1) gi

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 47 of 131 (6) DYNAMIC PCBS: The number of dynamic process control blocks on

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 48 of 131 Disk Volume Performance This subsection of the report (Example 3-2)

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 49 of 131 Global Performance Indicators In this subsection of the report (Exa

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 5 of 131 Disk Subprocess Analysis and Recommendations ...

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 50 of 131 (7) OVER UTILIZED CPU: No over utilization of any processors. None

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 51 of 131 System Performance Score This subsection of the report (Example 3-4

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 52 of 131 Process and Busy Distribution Analyses The Process and Busy Distrib

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 53 of 131 (3) SYSTEM: The SYSTEM class consists of processes that are part o

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 54 of 131 Processor Load Balance and Performance Charts This section of the r

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 55 of 131 PROCESSOR PERFORMANCE CHART 1 CPU NUM : 0 1

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 56 of 131 Processor Performance Chart This chart (Example 3-6) gives the foll

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 57 of 131 (14) HALT IMPACT: How system performance would be affected if the

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 58 of 131 Disk Volume Performance Analysis This section of the report (Exampl

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 59 of 131 (10) CACHE CALLS PER REQUEST: The average number of cache calls u

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 6 of 131 The Detail System Performance Score Reports ...

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 60 of 131 Cache Performance Analysis This section of the report (Example 3-9)

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 61 of 131 Disk Subprocess Analysis and Recommendations Disk Subprocess Analys

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 62 of 131 (9) RATE: The rate is assigned based on the REQ QTIME AQL value. i

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 63 of 131 Processor/Disk Configuration Diagram The following diagram (Example

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 64 of 131 The below information is data for each disk volume for which the pr

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 65 of 131 IPC Traffic Analysis For ServerNet-based systems, there is one IPC

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 66 of 131 IPC activity (“From Number”). (4) TO NO: The number of the listene

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 67 of 131 Process Move Recommendations This section of the report (Example 3-

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 68 of 131 Expected System Performance After Tuning This section of the report

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 69 of 131 Q - Moderate Memory Shortage R - Moderate Transient Pr

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 7 of 131 List of Figures and Tables Figure 1-1 How GPA works ...

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 70 of 131 GPA Optional Report When you select at least one section of the GPA

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 71 of 131 (1) Optional Report Exclude Parameter Values: The list of CPUs to

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 72 of 131 Summary Section Choosing the summary option produces a table descri

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 73 of 131 (3) User-configured processes in the SYSTEM clas

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 74 of 131 Detail Section Example 3-17 is an example of the additional informa

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 75 of 131 VIRTUAL 4

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 76 of 131 Section 4: Using GPA Information Interpreting the Standard Report A

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 77 of 131 Node Characteristics The Node Characteristics subsection of the GPA

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 78 of 131 Example 4-2 shows that \NODEB has characteristics that are generall

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 79 of 131 You can get a picture of the overall health of the system from som

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 8 of 131 Example 4-4. Global Performance Indicators for \NODEA ...

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 80 of 131 Figure 4-1. Response Time as a Function of CPU Utilization A ru

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 81 of 131 The global performance indicators for \NODEB (Example 4-5) show tha

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 82 of 131 Disk Volume Subsystem Performance Score You can get a further indic

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 83 of 131 System Performance Score In the System Performance Score subsection

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 84 of 131 Example 4-10. System Performance Indicators for \NODEC IV. SYST

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 85 of 131 Process and Busy Distribution Analyses As you look at the Process a

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 86 of 131 OVERVIEW Busy Distribution Analysis - Percent Cpu Busy Class

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 87 of 131 Processor Load Balance and Performance Charts The next major sectio

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 88 of 131 PCB COUNT : 86 89 41 48 TRANSIENTS : 4

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 89 of 131 Other important parameter values shown in this chart are:  The p

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 9 of 131 Example 4-30. Summary Section for the System Class for \NODEC ...

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 90 of 131 PROCESSOR PERFORMANCE CHART CPU NUM : 0 1

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 91 of 131 Disk Volume Performance Analysis To track the performance of the di

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 92 of 131 Cache Performance Analysis In the Cache Performance Analysis sectio

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 93 of 131 Disk Subprocess Analysis and Recommendations GPA generates an analy

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 94 of 131 Processor/Disk Configuration Diagram The processor/disk configurati

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 95 of 131 Example 4-18. Processor/Disk Configuration Diagram for \NODEB

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 96 of 131 “After Primary Changes” Sections When GPA analyzes a system, it con

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 97 of 131 HALT IMPACT: MEMORY MEMORY MEMORY MEMORY CPU Count: 4

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 98 of 131 CPU FLAG EXPLANATIONS: + - Interrupt Busy M - S

Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide – (544541-006) Page 99 of 131 Example 4-21. Disk Volume Performance Analysis for \NODEB After P