MTQ Settings

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chewza
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MTQ Settings

Post by chewza »

Hi Guys

We have a single physical box, with multiple Tm1 models.

IBM recommends MTQ=ALL.
Is this still the case when you have multiple Tm1 models on one box?

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Chris
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Re: MTQ Settings

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I dont know why. But I always set it to max - 1. So if you have 4 threads, I set it to 3.

This way there are always some resources available for other system things.
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Re: MTQ Settings

Post by mvaspal »

Hi
To be fair, you should understand well how your databases are used to find the most optimized way. It depends on how these databases are used, parallel or different times, how long usually a query takes, how many users, how many cores in total you have, etc. I usually do not set it to ALL if I have multiple databases because in theory it may happen that if there is a long query on one of the databases then it uses up all cores. But also, if I have for example 16 cores, I do not allocate out exactly only 16 (i.e. in case of 4 databases 4 cores each), but more than 16 but less than 4x16. Really depends on the different databases. Maybe give to your biggest/most used one 75-80% of cores and then decrease for all others this % a bit. If most queries run within seconds and number of parallel users are not that high, then you could be close to ALL in all databases

Btw, I would be also interested to hear others' practices
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