Determine if CPU or Memory is Abnormal

To help you determine what constitutes "abnormal" memory usage, new functionality has been added to the server command-line program porttest. This new functionality will simulate a memory leak until the process can no longer allocate memory. The output of the program will be the number of bytes that the porttest program was able to allocate before failure. This number can be used by the administrator to estimate when an EnterpriseOne process may fail due to excessive memory consumption.

The porttest program can be run in two modes: single-threaded (simulates runbatch and subsystem UBE's) and multi-threaded (simulates CallObject kernels). Since the memory model on the IBM i platform is single-level store, a maximum-limit cannot be determined in this way.

Note: If you are running EnterpriseOne Services on the IBM i platform, please work with your IBM representative to determine the maximum temporary storage that a job can use before failure.