Performance check for parallelization of tasks

Scope

• A performance check includes to verify what performance is available from a given system.
• The check for parallelization provides results for which number of parallel tasks an acceptable performance can be verified.
• Performance optimization for individual environments is part of the SOS Consulting Services. 

Performance Check

• The performance check includes to run a test suite

Test Suite Download and Installation

• Download: performance_parallel_tasks.zip
• Installation: Unzip the archive to an arbitrary folder in your live directory. The test suite will be created in a folder performance_parallel_tasks.

Test Suite Design

• The test suite contains the following jobs
  • run_parallel_jobs
    • This job will execute a number of parallel tasks for one of the below jobs
  • parallel_job_windows
    • This job is used for Windows environments
    • parallel_job_windows job Expand source

      @echo .. running job: %SCHEDULER_JOB_NAME% for: %SCHEDULER_PARAM_SLEEP%s
      @set /A "sleep=(%SCHEDULER_PARAM_SLEEP%+1)"
      ping -n %SLEEP% -w 1000 192.0.2.1 > nul
      @echo .. terminating job

  • parallel_job_unix
    • This job is used for Unix environments
    • parallel_job_unix job Expand source

      echo .. running job: ${SCHEDULER_JOB_NAME} for: ${SCHEDULER_PARAM_SLEEP}s
      sleep=${SCHEDULER_PARAM_SLEEP}+1
      ping -n ${SLEEP} -w 1000 192.0.2.1 > nul
      echo .. terminating job

• The test suite makes use of the following process class
  • Performance

    • This process class is used to restrict the max. number of parallel processes and optionally to assgin a JobScheduler Agent for execution of the test suite.

      Performance process class Expand source

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
      
      <process_class  max_processes="50"/>

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Configuration