Have you done anything with SHARE settings for the guest? You can set either an absolute (% of CPU) or relative (xx relative to yy) minimum so this guest will get that much more CPU when it's needed...
Scott Rohling On Mar 3, 2011 5:44am, "Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]" <baue...@mail.nih.gov> wrote:
We have a Wordpress server that really spikes during certain, know times of the month, about 45000 hits/hour. Its running on a single z9 IFL with only 4G of memory on the lpar, z/VM 5.4, REHL 6 (yeah, I know, more memory, good luck since we are a govt. agency). The user did not expect this kind of response so we have all been surprised.
We have Supercache in use.
At 1G of memory it crashed yesterday due to lack of memory so we upped it to 2G and are waiting for the next cycle. It has swap space of:
swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/dasda2 partition 1023976 0 -1
/dev/dasdb1 partition 194964 0 2
/dev/dasdc1 partition 64976 0 1
dasda2 is real dasd
dasdb1 and c1 are VDISK defined using the swapgen macro from Sine Nomine
this morning the server looks like this:
free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2050360 1323728 726632 0 114588 345964
-/+ buffers/cache: 863176 1187184
Swap: 1283916 0 1283916
So the general question is, are there other steps we can take to help response time when usage peaks? There are 2 other production servers on this lpar. One is very low usage, the other has the potential for the same kind of activity. There is a test lpar sharing the IFL with 4G of memory also. I've thought of stealing a G from test and moving it to production. There are plans to host Wiki's on the production lpar also.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Bobby Bauer
Center for Information Technology
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892-5628
301-594-7474
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