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March 27th, 2015 09:00

How to measure syscall activity

Is there a way to measure syscall activity on a specific FA port on a VMAX or can only EMC support do that.  I've been looking through SRM, Performance Analyzer, and symstat but I can't seem to find anything.

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jeremy

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March 27th, 2015 09:00

Thank you very much, i found it.  Do you know what number would impact performance?

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March 27th, 2015 09:00

Do you have access to Unisphere for VMAX with performance ?

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March 27th, 2015 09:00

this was a pretty significant impact to performance for my very latency sensitive oracle DB. These syscalls were generated by EMC Control Center (WLA agent). As you can see the minute i moved it to another set of FAs (dedicated just for ECC), %busy went way down. I am not sure if applications like SRM, Unisphere for Performance are just as "chatty" but if you can afford to move them away from sensitive apps .. i would do it.

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March 27th, 2015 11:00

then you should be fine.

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March 27th, 2015 11:00

We're not using port 1 on that FA. 

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March 27th, 2015 11:00

I'm getting spikes every twenty minutes on the nose upwards of 30 syscalls/sec.  The only two servers on those ports are Unipshere for Performance and Site Recovery Manager. 

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March 27th, 2015 11:00

you looked at ports 0 and 1, this will impact both.

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