Here is an Interesting Article about Raid performance on SQL Server you might 
want to read:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=131

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=484&page=3


Might help on your Raid setup.

Also Have you tried Upping your Min Threads to 3 and Lowering your Max to like 
8??  I generally only go 4 times the # of processors on the threads max ...


Thanks,

Sean





From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
On Behalf Of Harry Pugh
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:42 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Terrible performance - 6 concurrent users

Hi,

I'm running into some pretty bad performance problems with what should be a 
pretty simple setup for Remedy and ITSM 7. Our help desk users are experiencing 
delays of up to 30 seconds just when pulling up the dropdowns for the 
Operational Categorizations. They're experiencing delays from 45 seconds to a 
minute just to pull open an Incident form. Saving an incident takes up to 20 
seconds. We only have 6 concurrent users out of a user base of 22.

We're running ARServer 7.1 and ITSM 7.0.02 patch 6 on one server with 2xDual 
Core 2.66GHz Xeon processors, 3.5 GB RAM. The DB is running on SQL Server 2000 
on a separate box with a lot of RAM and RAID 5 storage.

The avg. cpu % on the ARServer is very low  (< 3%) and ARServer.exe is taking 
up 673 MB of RAM, aremailid.exe is taking up close to 40MB of RAM, and 
arplugin.exe is taking close to 28MB of RAM.

I turned on SQL and API logging and used the LogAnalyzer tool to run through 
the SQL logs. I'm showing one query that one of my users executed that took 
26.358 seconds to complete - when I copy and paste the SQL Command into SQL 
Server Management studio it executes and returns the result immediately. There 
are also some queries run by the Remedy Application Service that claim to take 
300 seconds to execute - again it returns immediately when I run the query on 
my own. So something must be blocking these queries, but what? As far as 
Incident is concerned, we're running a pretty out of the box setup for ITSM 7.

The API log analysis looks pretty bad as well, I saw a lot of long running 
commands:

*         20.85 seconds (executed by a user): +SE ARSetEntry - schema HPD:Help 
Desk entryId INCxyz from Remedy User (protocol 13) at IP address a.b.c.d

*         300.45 seconds (executed by Remedy App Service): +GLEWF 
ARGetListEntryWithFields - schema 
BMC.CORE.CONFIG:BMC_CIToConfigBaseRelationship from Unidentified Client 
(protocol 12) at IP address

*         51.466 seconds (executed by a user): +SE ARSetEntry - schema HPD:Help 
Desk entryID .....................


As for our server queues, I'm using the following:

*         Alert Min 1 Max 5

*         Escalation Min 1 Max 20

*         Fast Min 5 Max 20

*         <blank> Min 2 Max 15

*         List Min 15 Max 25


Any ideas for how to troubleshoot this are greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!

[cid:[email protected]]

Mike Pugh
Software Engineer

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