Example 2: Unable to Get Desired Throughput

Problem Description

CustomerB was in the midst of implementing a new application, performing stress tests before going into production. While performing the stress test, the database server could not ramp up to the desired number of client applications while achieving the required response times.

Problem Analysis and Resolution

Step 1: Examine the Database and Database Manager Configuration Parameters
Database manager configuration

The three parameters in the database manager configuration that stand out are highlighted in bold below. In this case, the application is mainly an online application; therefore, intra-partition parallelism should be disabled. Because there will be a large number of concurrent ...

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