Considerations

Make your application available to as many CPUs as it can efficiently use. As an example, you get the best performance from one instance from 2 CPUs. You can expect that creating 14 2CPU processor sets would yield the best performance.

An increasing csw value shows an increase with network use. A common cause for a high csw value is the result of having created too many socket connections--either by not pooling connections or by handling new connections inefficiently. If this is the case you would also see a high TCP connection count when executing netstat -a | wc–l. For more information, refer to netstat.

Do you observe increasing icsw? A common cause of this is preemption, most likely because of an end of time slice on the CPU.