PX performance statistics

MAT · Post by **MAT** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 12:50 pm

Hi,

As anybody tried to obtain stats from Parallel extender? When I check show performance statistics in designer, I always get zeros everywhere. The same happens while using the function DSGetLinkInfo() asking for row count (zeros all the way). I know for sure that there are records being transfered from seing the files and in the job log. Got any clues? All these functionalities work well with Server but not with PX or what?

Regards

MAT

bigpoppa · Post by **bigpoppa** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:14 am

MAT,
I have seen PX generate statistics thru the graphical monitor, but I have never tried using the GetLinkInfo command. The behavior you have described sounds like a bug.

If you need to get the # of records in a PX dataset, you can run the following command in the post-processing of your job:

dsrecords xxxx.ds

The command 'dsrecords' will give you the entire # of records in a dataset. Note that this is not partition information.

Is this the kind of info you are looking for?

MAT · Post by **MAT** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:20 am

Thanks BP,

I thought it might be a bug too so I contacted Ascential on this and they are investigating the case. Meanwhile, what you are saying about post processing interests me. I am still a newbie with PX. Could you tell me more about dsrecords? Where should I enter it? I can't find a reference for it in PX developer's guide.

Regards

MAT

bigpoppa · Post by **bigpoppa** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:49 am

MAT,

'dsrecords' is a PX utility. Another useful utility is 'orchadmin'. If your env vars are set up properly, you should be able run the 'osh' command from the command line. If you can run that command, then you can run 'orchadmin' and 'dsrecords'.

By running 'orchadmin', you will see a list of all of the options to it. You can use the command to view statistics and metadata for PX datasets.

I don't see any documentation for any of these commands. If you can't get the above commands to work, please let me know. I will try to walk you thru it.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 4:44 pm

A small amount of arcane (and, alas, unhelpful) knowledge.
The "orch" of orchadmin comes from the product name Orchestrate, which is the parallel technology Ascential acquired with its purchase of Torrent.

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