While I understand that this scenario is not being "suggested" as the definitive problem, I find the scenario itself highly implausible. While it is certainly possible, I have a problem believing it. There are so many things wrong here, that I can't even begin to contemplate the implications of upgrading from a 4-way to a 10-way based on poor data collection and a problem transaction?
> I use to work for a vendor who had a customer with a transaction running > on a 4-way and because it ran at 100% all the time, they figured they were > out of gas. So we sold them a 10 way to have available for the Christmas > rush and the week after we installed it, we varied one, then 2, then 3 > ...... engines online. Each instantly went to 100%. After loooking into > the problem, I found that the application acquired a lock and then did a > huge search, inserted a record in a Linked List, then released the lock. > Since the whole application consisted of the same transaction, all other > processors were spinning waiting for the same lock to be released. After > we fixed it, they didn't even require the 4 way. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
