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Increase in number of instances of the job increases time.

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:15 am
by chetan.c
Hi ,
I have a multiple instance job which im calling through a sequence job which is also multiple instance.

There is another sequence where i call instances of the sequence.

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Master_Sequence--->Sequence(multiple instance)--->Parallel job(multipleinstance)
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In the master sequence if the number of instance is 2 time consumption is 2 mins per instance.

If the instance is increased to 5 time consumption is 4:10 mins.
Almost 50% increase in execution time. :?
Kindly let me know why this could be happening?

Thanks,
Chetan

Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:49 am
by chulett
Resource contention. More != faster/better. Sometimes also known as the Law of Diminishing Returns.

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:44 am
by chetan.c
:) Oh but i have to process that volume.One instance processes around 100 mb data and i have 5 instances to touch 500 mb.
Is there a workaround for this?


Thanks,
Chetan.C

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:09 am
by ray.wurlod
Certainly. One workaround is to run on more powerful hardware. Simply adding more processing nodes (on other machines) may suffice.

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:48 am
by qt_ky
It can depend on if the bottleneck is memory, CPU, disk, network. Tune the job design first. Also check any OS settings that can impose limits.

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:44 am
by chetan.c
Thanks Ray, I have very little knowledge on that. Reading up on that and searching through the forum for that.

qt_ky wrote:It can depend on if the bottleneck is memory, CPU, disk, network. Tune the job design first. Also check any OS settings that can impose limits.
Thanks eric.
Can you give me some pointers on how I can check CPU and disk.

Thanks,
Chetan.C

Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:44 pm
by qt_ky
The topic link below highlights many options. If you go the unix command route, then I suggest you work locally with your unix admin for help on those...

viewtopic.php?t=144892

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 2:49 am
by chetan.c
Thanks Eric.

Will work on it and post if i make any improvements.

Thanks,
Chetan.C