Monitoring a Physical Destination’s Disk Utilization (Sun Java System Message Queue 3.7 UR1 Administration Guide)

Sun Java System Message Queue 3.7 UR1 Administration Guide

Monitoring a Physical Destination’s Disk Utilization

To monitor a physical destination’s disk utilization, use a command like the following:

imqcmd metrics dst -t q -n myQueue -m dsk -u admin

This command produces output like the following:

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Reserved   Used      Utilization Ratio
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806400     804096    99
1793024    1793024   100
2544640    2518272   98

The columns in the subcommand output have the following meaning:

Table 6–2 Physical Destination Disk Utilization Metrics


Metric	Description
Reserved	Disk space in bytes used by all records, including records that hold active messages and free records waiting to be reused.
Used	Disk space in bytes used by records that hold active messages.
Utilization Ratio	Quotient of used disk space divided by reserved disk space. The higher the ratio, the more the disk space is being used to hold active messages.

Reclaiming Unused Physical Destination Disk Space

The disk utilization pattern depends on the characteristics of the messaging application that uses a particular physical destination. Depending on the relative flow of messages into and out of a physical destination, and the relative size of messages, the reserved disk space might grow over time.

If the message producing rate is greater than the message consuming rate, free records should generally be reused and the utilization ratio should be on the high side. However, if the message producing rate is similar to or smaller than the message consuming rate, you can expect that the utilization ratio will be low.

In general, you want the reserved disk space to stabilize and the utilization to remain high. As a rule, if the system reaches a steady state in which the amount of reserved disk space generally stays constant and utilization rate is high (above 75%), there is no need to reclaim the unused disk space. If the system reaches a steady state and utilization rate is low (below 50%), you can compact the disk to reclaim the disk space occupied by free records.

Use the compact dst subcommand to compact the data store. This is the syntax for the compact dst subcommand:

compact dst [-t destType -n 
destName]

The subcommand compacts the file-based data store for the physical destination of the specified type and name. If no destination type and name are specified, all destinations are compacted. Physical destinations must be paused before they can be compacted.

If the reserved disk space continues to increase over time, reconfigure the destination’s memory management by setting destination memory limit properties and limit behaviors (see Table 15–1).

To Reclaim Unused Physical Destination Disk Space

Pause the destination.

imqcmd pause dst -t q -n myQueue -u admin

Compact the disk.

imqcmd compact dst -t q -n myQueue -u admin

Resume the physical destination.
imqcmd resume dst -t q -n myQueue -u admin
If destination type and name are not specified, these operations are performed for all physical destinations.