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rmbowma
PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:26 pm    Post subject: How do you calculate Q Mgr data and log disk space? Reply with quote

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I'm installing MQ V7 on an iSeries and AIX machine. I need to calculate how much disk space to allocate to hold my queues and logs. Where can I find this information or can someone tell me how to do this?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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You use traffic estimates, traffic types, top it off by a growth amount, double the growth amount and use common sense like average message size, max message size, max qdepth etc... This should give a feel for the log size you are shooting for. Remember concurrency of messages will play as well...

On the other hand, you can shoot for the max disc space you can get/afford for them... and remember disc is cheap....


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Take a look at WMQ System Admin manual (midrange). It has narrative on sizing logs. WMQ Plannaing manual (z/OS), too.
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Logs (circular at least) only holds certain data related to active syncpoints.

You need to understand how (or even if) your applications commit their units of work.

Here are my rough guidelines

maybe have 5 primary and 5 secondary
definitely set LogFilePages to 16384
Use circular logging (in most cases)

Make sure the disk space will allow the use of the above log files.

Make sure the queue space has enough space for a weeks worth of messages at least

Round up to nearest GB.

Make sure the Dead Letter Queue is defined and has a very large max depth (eg 500000)

Make sure transmit queues have a large max depth (eg 50000)
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You need to understand how (or even if) your applications commit their units of work.

And your application developers must understand that their applications cannot create very large units of work (either individually or in combination with other concurrent applications) that may/could/might span all circular log segments.
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