Wirt,

With all due respect, this customer has;

A 997/800
380GB of disc
700+ active online users
45 jobs at any given time

The system spends on AVERAGE 9% cpu on memory management, that means
there are extended periods where the system spends over 20% CPU on
memory management for hours at a time.

Page fault rate on average over a 24 hour period is 60 per second, but
it is not uncommon to be over 100 per second. (slightly lower than I
would expect)

Finally, the read hit percentage is averaging 90%, with some very
significant drops.

What I find amazing is that not only is HP telling them that Memory will
only make the matters worse, but that adding more CPU's will also not
help.

They are pushing the limit on the CPU as well.

Does this make sense at all?  Why doesn't HP want to sell there own
equipment?

I am sorry, but this is no brainier, and HP now has one very
dissatisfied customer.

-Craig




Craig M. Lalley

Systems Performance Specialist


The opinions are my own and not necessarily that of my employers, yada,
yada, yada....

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