TCP/IP parameters, TCP/IP patches and performance.

From: <paulo_at_dexel.co.za>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:27:50 +0000

Hello osf-managers,

I have a customer running 3.2D-1 Digital Unix (dual CPU - Alpha
8200). They are running a huge Sybase database and have identified a
problem with the tcp/ip for Sybase configuration.

1. There is a tcp/ip parameter "tcp_keepintvl" in the inet subsystem which
needs to be set to approx. 10 minutes. It can be accessed in the following way:
# sysconfig -q inet. They think that this is causing the freezing of
their database ie. a database process finishes but is not killed by
the OS.

However, I noticed that the customer does not have this specific
parameter and subsystem (inet) on his system. It is available for
4.0a which I have verified on my system. What I need to know is - what
is the equivalent of this parameter in 3.2D-1? or what parameter
would directly affect the keep alive interval time of this parameter
(which needs to be set to 10 min)

2. Does anyone know of any specific TCP/IP patches that should be
installed on 3.2D-1? Should I upgrade to 3.2G?

3. Has anyone heard of the # ndd command used to interrogate
tcp/ip parameters? It apparently resides in /usr/sbin. I don't have
it on my system(4.0a)!

4. When I do a swapon -s there is no swapping taking place and yet
the cpu seems to be working quite hard? Is this normal? Would Sybase
as a client server process work in system mode or user mode???

# swapon -s
Swap partition /dev/rz25c:
    Allocated space: 523755 pages (4091MB)
    In-use space: 2092 pages ( 0%)
    Free space: 521663 pages ( 99%)
Total swap allocation:
    Allocated space: 523755 pages (4091MB)
    In-use space: 2092 pages ( 0%)
    Available space: 521663 pages ( 99%)

#vmstat 1 100
Virtual Memory Statistics: (pagesize = 8192)
  procs memory pages intr cpu
  r w u act free wire fault cow zero react pin pout in sy cs us sy id
  6 66 18 109K 6629 11K 768K 34K 330K 147K 115K 57K 358 25K 719 25 42 33
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 214 26 156 0 25 0 274 3K 348 13 87 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 59 0 55 0 0 0 297 3K 453 10 90 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 55 0 55 0 0 0 218 3K 332 7 93 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 58 0 55 0 0 0 318 3K 487 12 88 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 59 0 55 0 0 0 220 3K 324 8 92 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 57 0 55 0 0 0 210 3K 313 6 94 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 55 0 55 0 0 0 216 3K 329 7 93 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 55 0 55 0 0 0 224 3K 312 5 94 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 56 0 55 0 0 0 202 3K 317 7 93 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 60 0 55 0 0 0 253 3K 376 10 90 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 57 0 55 0 0 0 251 3K 385 7 93 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 56 0 55 0 0 0 237 3K 361 9 91 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 55 0 55 0 0 0 160 3K 240 7 93 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 60 0 55 0 0 0 251 3K 377 7 93 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 62 0 55 0 0 0 307 3K 455 11 89 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 68 0 55 0 0 0 302 3K 468 9 91 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 57 0 55 0 0 0 328 3K 438 11 89 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 56 0 55 0 0 0 216 3K 344 7 93 0
  5 67 18 110K 6544 11K 59 0 55 0 0 0 302 3K 451
8 92 0

Thanks, any help to any of the above questions would be appreciated.
I will summarize asap.

Reagards
Paulo
Received on Wed Feb 26 1997 - 09:56:56 NZDT

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