Ron Wallace wrote:
>
> We just moved our AMISYS application from a 987/200 to a 989/400.  We seem to be experiencing a lot of I/O constraint.  We have not been able to get the CPU utilization above 50%, on a good day, usually 35%.  We have a Nike(Not sure of spelling) 20 box with a variety of disc drives(4, 16 and 20 gig) drives.
>

What was the disc configuration on the 987?
Did you reduce the number of drives or channels in moving to the 989?
How is the Nike configured (i.e.RAID0/1 (mirroring) or RAID5 etc.)?

Richard Gambrell

> I do not think we have been able to utilize 2 of the 4 processors on this box.  I have tried spreading files across the drives and condensing.
>
> I have a lot of through put that I can not seem to use.
>
> Has anybody found any solution to this?
>
> Ron Wallace
> Contractor


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