msiAttach, msiGetStatSample

[Michael Lacriola]

At what amount of time do you find running the msiAttach/msiGetStatSample utilities start effecting the performance of the Engine? We have finally moved to a browser utility that provides viewing capabilities only on the statisitics of each thread. The data sample is run every 5 minutes (using cron), converted to XML, then FTP’ed to another server. XSL is used for rendering the HTML accordingly.

We would like to drop the cron job down to a minute or 2 if possible. We are seeing no negative effects at 5 minutes.

Ultimately, we would like to add additional functionality as time warrants. I’ve read other posts about being able to start/stop threads and processes from the browser and would love to be able to do that as well.

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[Jonathan Hamilton]

Michael,

In the past I have done the update every 60 seconds and didn’t experience any performance issues.  With a more heavily utilized server you may have issues though.

In my current environment, instead of doing blind updates, I poll the server as needed so the stats are always acurate.  It takes a little more infrastructure to do it this way but if you want to add engine control and other tricks you will need the infrastructure anyway.

Jonathan

[Anonymous]

Michael,

We can do that every minute now but with the old servers we had to wait more than 10 minutes to avoid taxing the CPU too much. So I guess it depends on the hardware capabilities.

We manage all through the web but use only HTML. I think that using XML is a great idea. One of the issues with using only HTML is that our pages have to display properly in our Palms and our desktop monitors, …and you can imagine how hard is to find the balance some times.

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