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How to bind DB2 database manager to cores?

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Step 1. Set DB2 registry variable as follows:        DB2_RESOURCE_POLICY=/db2home/inst1/mydir/bindproc.txtStep 2: make sure the bindproc.txt has the following entry:        (the following example binds two cores to the process)<RESOURCE_POLICY>                <GLOBAL_RESOURCE_POLICY>                        <METHOD>CPU</METHOD>                        <RESOURCE_BINDING>                                <RESOURCE>1</RESOURCE>                        </RESOURCE_BINDING>                        <RESOURCE_BINDING>                                <RESOURCE>2</RESOURCE>                        </RESOURCE_BINDING>                </GLOBAL_RESOURCE_POLICY></RESOURCE_POLICY>.pw.

DB2 Buffer Pool Utilization

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Buffer pool utilizationDavid J. Kline, and Gabor Wieser from IBM describes, in very simple terms, how bufferpools in DB2 should be designed. In their article on developerWorks, they described the following:The most important reason to use more than one user table space is to manage buffer utilization. A table space can only ...

Performance with IBM DB2 on NetApp FAS and IBM Storage with Linux

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

IBM DB2 9.5 Performance and Scalability on RHEL5 with NFS and FCP Using NetApp FAS or IBM N series Storage Systemhttp://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3775.pdfTopics include: HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SETTINGS SERVER  STORAGE  LINUX KERNEL PARAMETERCONFIGURATION AND TUNING LINUX NFS CONFIGURATION AND TUNING LINUX FCP CONFIGURATION AND TUNING DB2 CONFIGURATIONDB2 PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY OVER NFS AND FCP  LINUX NFS ...

Scale large OLTP workload with DB2 9 for System z on Linux

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Scale large OLTP workload with DB2 9 for System z on LinuxSimple and effective tuning paper (about 9 pages) by IBMhttp://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/linux390/perf/ZSW03028-USEN-00.pdfkey topics include:Environmental SetupServer softwareLinux Kernel tunablesI/O schedulerDatabase ImplementationAsynchronous I/ODirect I/OWorkload DescriptionResults.pw.

Tuning and Monitoring Database System Performance UNIX Windows Linux

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Database System Performance Best Pract= ices on UNIX, Windows and LinuxThe paper published by IBM and found he= re http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/bestpractices/systemperformance/?S= _TACT=3D105AGX11&S_CMP=3DLP. The key area covered an= d are at the heart of performance tuning include the following:= The first step: configuring for good performanceHardware = configurationAIX configurationSolaris and HP-UX configura= tionLinux configurationDB2 Data Partitioning Feature= Choice of ...

Database Vendor Performance Benchmark Links

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

The following are performance benchmark Web pages from major DBMS and hardware vendors:Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Example of performance highlight and resource page http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/performance-scale.aspx   (includes overview, plus links to benchmark results, papers, and more)Oracle. Benchmark result pageshttp://www.oracle.com/solutions/performance_scalability/index.htmlMicrosoft SQL Server 2008. Benchmark result pages http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/benchmarks.aspxMicrosoft SQL Server 2005. Benchmark result pages ...

SQL Server 2008 Tunings

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

SQL Server 2008 TuningFor an OLTP workload, start with the following advanced SQL Server 2008tuning recommendations. Some are from Microsoft, others are just good practices. Run these as queries in the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio UI:USE masterEXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE(the above must be run first ...

DB2 SQL5043N Error on start

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

bash-3.00# db2start05/15/2007 15:01:59     0   0   SQL5043N  Support for one or more communications protocols failed to start successfully. However, core database manager functionality started successfully.SQL1063N  DB2START processing was successful.look into db2diag.log:2007-05-15-15.01.58.846394-420 E92034A447         LEVEL: ErrorPID     : 405708               TID  : 1           PROC : db2sysc 0INSTANCE: db2inst1             NODE : 000FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, common communication, ...

Boost performance by 60% with WebSphere Servlet Caching

Monday, December 7th, 2009

An excellent tuning paper on IBM's developerWo= rks on the topic of Servlet Caching:Servlet caching=0A=0A WebSphere Application Server=E2=80=99s DynaCache pro= vides a general in-memory=0A caching service ...

High performance message-driven beans

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

An article on IBM's developerWorks web sites shows some tips on tuningmessage-driven beans. In particular, a simple math model was given as follows:"We can build a simple mathematical model of the behaviour of concurrent MDB usage: If we expect a transaction under normal circumstances to take t seconds to complete, and ...