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Status Not under consideration
Workspace AIX
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 24, 2022

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AIX WLM Start and Stop is blocking activities on huge Systems

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When configuring and then starting or stopping AIX WLM Workload Manager the system is not forking any new processes anymore and if it is e.g. a 5 TB AIX machine with thousands of processes it might take up to 10 minutes to start
AIX Support Analysis is:

Loading / updating the WLM configuration is quite fast, but classifying processes is about 30% of the time, while classifying memory is about 70%. As all 3 of these things are done under the wlm_classes_lock, so fork will be blocked the entire time. The same is true for stopping WLM.



HACMP does not require fork for its heartbeats, but likely will need fork for its application monitors to run. Additionally Oracle forks processes from tnslsnr for each query, so will also be blocked during WLM start / stop as well. So, you are right to be concerned about starting WLM with a running workload.



It would be better if WLM could drop the wlm_classes_lock, at least periodically, during process / memory classification, so fork would be allowed at least periodically.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 14, 2022
    IBM has evaluated the priority of this enhancement proposal relative to other future product content and determined that this RFE will not be pursued for a future product release.

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