Multi Domain Server - Performance

[Roman_Niewiado1]

Dear community.

I found the solution sk109236 - "High CPU / process crashes / timeout due to large database / first time operations / load on the machine".

The solution to get better performance is to modify the connection buffer.

"The size of the Communication Buffer is hard-coded to 1MB-4MB depending on the version (For R77.10 and above: 4MB)."
"It is strongly suggested to set FWASYNC_MAXBUF=40000000 (or more, according to what the allocation failed on, i.e. if it failed on 40MB, then set to 80MB)"

• What does the buffer do?
• What is the limit of increasing the buffer?
• Why is 40 MB not default?

Regards

Roman

[G_W_Albrecht]

Increasing a buffer (and yes, there are a lot of buffers in CP GWs and SMS !) adds to memory consumption, so when buffers are very large, swapping will occur and slow down the unit...

[Timothy_Hall]

I believe FWASYNC_MAXBUF is used by the fwm process on a SMS to buffer incoming operations that fwm needs to perform.  In  R77.30 management and earlier, fwm had far too many responsibilities and was mostly single-threaded.  This was a bad combination and led to fwm daemon crashes under heavy load which would eject the administrator from the SmartDashboard and all other GUI tools. 

fwm still exists in R80+ management, but mainly to service the older legacy GUIs like the Smartview Monitor and SmartDashboard and a few other operations.  Given the wholesale changes in R80+ management, fwm has much less to do these days and has been pretty stable from what I've seen; the new cpm daemon has taken over most of fwm's prior responsibilities.  As such I wouldn't worry too much about increasing this buffer for fwm in R80+ management, unless you are actively seeing warnings about running out in $FWDIR/log/fwm.elg.

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[Roman_Niewiado1]

Thank you for the answers.

We are using R77.30 Take 292.

$FWDIR/log/fwm.elg is not there.

I increased the buffer to 80 MB. It seems to work better, now.

Regards

Roman

[Roman_Niewiado1]

Next thing we did was to delete the caching file $FWDIR/conf/CPMILinksMgr.db

It was 60 Gb and maked more free RAM space.
128/125 Gb used to 128/70 Gb

[Alexander_Wilke]

Hi Roman,

we are using these parameters since more than 1 year on R77.30 with HFA T225 (and earlier). We configured it on the MDS and the GWs and the last time I read this SK the limit was about 64MB and this is what we configured.

To be honest I don't know what we want to solve in the past with this buffer. I did not notice any bad side effects.

Regards