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Hi,

I would like to get help regarding node configuration.


I know my AIX server has 2 processors. To make use of both the processor's, I created a configuration file like this.

{
node "node1"
{
fastname "datastage"
pools ""
resource disk "/usr/IBM/InformationServer/Server/Datasets" {pools ""}
resource scratchdisk "/usr/IBM/InformationServer/Server/Scratch" {pools ""}
}
node "node2"
{
fastname "datastage"
pools ""
resource disk "/usr/IBM/InformationServer/Server/Datasets" {pools ""}
resource scratchdisk "/usr/IBM/InformationServer/Server/Scratch" {pools ""}
}

}


Is that the only thing I need to do to make use of both the processors? To be honest, seeing the speed of jobs, I don't feel I am not using both the processors. Please help is there anything else I need to do other than just creating the configuration file to make use of both the nodes.

Many thanks in advance.



Just an additional information. I ran a "check" of this configuration file from DEsigner > Tools > Configuration file but saw 5632MB for node1 and nothing has mentioned about node2. so is my confusion.



##I IIS-DSEE-TFCN-00001 06:21:32(000) <main_program>
IBM WebSphere DataStage Enterprise Edition 8.1.0.5040
Copyright (c) 2001, 2005-2008 IBM Corporation. All rights reserved



##I IIS-DSEE-TFCN-00006 06:21:32(001) <main_program> conductor uname: -s=AIX; -r=3; -v=5; -n=datastage; -m=00C048424C00
##I IIS-DSEE-TCOA-00067 06:21:32(002) <main_program> OS charset: ISO-8859-1.
##I IIS-DSEE-TCOA-00068 06:21:32(003) <main_program> Input charset: UTF-8.
##I IIS-DSEE-TFSC-00001 06:21:32(004) <main_program> APT configuration file: /usr/IBM/InformationServer/Server/Configurations/default_2node.apt
##I IIS-DSEE-TOIX-00059 06:21:34(000) <APT_RealFileExportOperator in APT_FileExportOperator,0> Export complete; 3 records exported successfully, 0 rejected.
##I IIS-DSEE-TFSC-00010 06:21:34(000) <main_program> Step execution finished with status = OK.
##I IIS-DSEE-TCOA-00071 06:21:34(001) <main_program> Config file checker on node node2 reports 0 error(s), 0 warning(s).
.
##I IIS-DSEE-TCOA-00071 06:21:34(002) <main_program> Total virtual memory on node node1 is 5632 MB.
.
##I IIS-DSEE-TCOA-00071 06:21:34(003) <main_program> Config file checker on node node1 reports 0 error(s), 0 warning(s).
.
##I IIS-DSEE-TCOA-00072 06:21:34(004) <main_program> 0 error(s) detected.
##I IIS-DSEE-TCOA-00073 06:21:34(005) <main_program> 0 warning(s) detected.

First thing to understand is that while "processor" is a physical concept, an actual discrete piece of hardware in your system, a "node" is nothing more than a logical concept and has no direct relationship with CPUs. Its just another process that your server needs to run and your O/S decides what CPU it runs on - meaning that, even if you had 4 nodes defined in your config, they would all happily run on one CPU and may even do so in spite of you having two. It's all up to the operating system.

Thanks Criag....

I am far far away from darkness now....

thanks a lot for your response... I was confused.