Ingres performance on a Sun Blade 100

From: Richard Mackerras (richard.mackerras@avonandsomerset.police.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 09:13:47 EDT


Hi,

We have moved an Ingres 2 database from an E250 to a Blade 100 while we
implement it's Oracle based replacement on the E250. We are seeing a
reduction in performance from the Blade (not very surprising really). The
Ingres DBA has done what she can to improve the database performance. How
can I get the best out of the Blade 100?

I believe the bottle neck is the disk performance on the 14Gb disk. We do
not want to buy a SCSI disk for this server. There is no swapping.

Would it help to use DiskSuite to mirror the Ingres data over the two disks?
Can I tweak /etc/system?

Thanks,

Richard

Spec:
        640 Mb main memory
        1 x 14Gb IDE HDD contains the ingress datafiles
        1 x 20Gb IDE HDD contains boot, /, /var, Ingres check points
and logging.

prtmem:
        Total memory: 609 Megabytes
        Kernel Memory: 69 Megabytes
        Application: 99 Megabytes
        Executable & libs: 14 Megabytes
        File Cache: 69 Megabytes
        Free, file cache: 354 Megabytes
        Free, free: 4 Megabytes

prtswap:
        Virtual Swap:
        ---------------------------------------------------------------
        Total Virtual Swap Configured: 2459MB
        Total Virtual Swap Reserved: 129MB
        Total Virtual Swap Free: (programs will fail if 0) 2330MB

        Physical Swap Utilization: (pages swapped out)
        ---------------------------------------------------------------
        Physical Swap Configured: 2000MB
        Physical Swap Free (programs will be locked in if 0): 2000MB

/etc/system:
* Force Network card to 100/Full
set eri:adv_autoneg_cap=0
set eri:adv_100T4_cap=0
set eri:adv_100fdx_cap=1
set eri:adv_100hdx_cap=0
set eri:adv_10fdx_cap=0
set eri:adv_10hdx_cap=0

* Set Max page I/O operations per sec.
set maxpgio = 2048

* Added for Ingres.
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax = 100000000
set semsys:seminfo_semmap = 300
set semsys:seminfo_semmni = 20
set semsys:seminfo_semmns = 600
set semsys:seminfo_semmsl = 100
set msgsys:msginfo_msgmax = 8192
set msgsys:msginfo_msgmnb = 16384

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