Wow, really nice work Colin! Addresses root cause for the high z/OSMF CPU, and is very neatly summed... https://colinpaice.blog/2021/06/27/i-cut-the-cpu-cost-of-doing-nothing Is there an associated RFE?
Thank much, Mike -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Colin Paice Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2021 4:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond (+hungry ZOWE concerns) Caution! This message was sent from outside your organization. If z/OSMF uses a lot of CPU when idle. You should increase the number of threads. See here I cut the CPU cost of doing nothing <https://colinpaice.blog/2021/06/27/i-cut-the-cpu-cost-of-doing-nothing/>. The default pool size is 100 - I found I needed 300 threads to avoid all the expanding and shrinking of the thread pool (create threads, lots of getmains... lots of freemains, delete threads: repeat). Ive suggested that z/OSMF development document/fix this. Colin On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 at 21:29, Mike Hochee <mike.hoc...@aspg.com> wrote: > Thank you Ed, excellent suggestion. > > I too have felt the z/OSMF cpu cycles were exorbitant, but assuming > you have sufficient zIIP capacity and ZZ=YES, which now appears to be > the default, then high cycles might in reality be more of a perception > problem if a person is looking at a generalized cpu bucket (as I was) > rather than GP, zIIP, and zAAP contributions individually. > > Another item, in the context of z/OSMF resource utilization as part of > the ZOWE software stack is what I regarded as high EXCP counts when > the system is idling. Over a 30hr period this translated to > approximately 300 EXCPs/second from z/OSMF. I have heard from two > sources that this may be due to a rather primitive technique used by > ZOWE to check for new work requests - that of interrogating data sets > for additions/changes. I would think some flavor of wait-post would be > far more efficient. Has anyone else noticed this behavior or better yet, > aware of a fix for it? > > Added Colin Paice's post to the end of this thread since it got > dropped and seemed quite relevant. > > Thanks much, > Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe > Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2021 7:24 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond > > Caution! This message was sent from outside your organization. > > On 7/17/2021 3:46 AM, Brian Westerman wrote: > > Asking a site that is able to function within their requirements and > existing SLA's to upgrade their box to more than 4x the existing size > just to run z/OSMF is just never going to be economically feasible. > Even on sites with larger machines, they may not have the extra > capacity to provide z/OSMF with what it needs to function properly. > > Since z/OSMF is a Java application, there is no need to upgrade the > box at all in the classic sense of increasing its MSU capacity. > > What you do instead is purchase/enable a single zIIP engine, share it > among all z/OS LPARs via the HMC, and set ZZ=YES (zAAP on zIIP) in > IEASYSxx on z/OS. > > Voila! z/OSMF runs like a champ and your software bill does not go up > one iota. In fact, it could go down slightly due to zIIP exploitation > by other CPU-hungry products. > -- > Phoenix Software International > Edward E. Jaffe > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Colin Paice > Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2021 8:43 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond > > One issue is that z/OSMF is expensive in CPU. I noticed in the system > trace, that there are 500 storage requests (eg getmain/freemain) for > each http rest message coming in. Getting rid of these expensive > requests would reduce the costs. I think all of these come from below > the Java level, such as BPX* modules. > For example, write an SMF record from C requires a getmain .. write > SMF record - free main. > > Ive blogged > < > https://colinpaice.blog/2020/12/21/a-practical-guide-to-getting-z-osmf > -working/ > > > on getting z/OSMF working including digital certificates. Unfortunately I > dont think they have designed it properly. Other products have the > "keystore" (keyring), containing just the private key for the server, > and the "trust store" (keyring) containing the public certificate > needed to validate any certificates sent to the server. This trust > store can be used by all products (Sysplex wide). z/OSMF just uses > one, combined, store(keying). This means I cant just reuse my > existing certificate set up, and so I have to have a dedicated keyring > for each z/OSMF. This makes the setup much harder, and makes > administration hard. It is not much code to fix it ( I implemented it in my > Java server). > > I think that z/OSMF could be great for the younger generations to get > up to speed. But it needs to be improved to make it low cost and easy > to install and configure (as in get it into production, rather than > just get it started). > > Colin > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
