QC2-PERF

This is the first account of performance monitoring for Qc2

Strategy

The algorithm “StressTester” performs ananlysis on nine months of data, reads from the databse, performs spatial interpolations and writes data to the future, while also pushing interpolation output to a netcdf file. The algorithm is run in isolation and then with kvQabased (Qc1 algorithms). The %MEM and %CPU use is monitored.

The following images just give screenshots of the performance monitoring tools (simple use of top and also vmstat and ps commands piping out to a file (the file is attached below)).

SUMMARY While the system resources are used intensively by both processes, both processes continue to run and perform adequately. Note, the use of Qc2 in this high stress mode is not typical (current thinking at least).

This is not a sophisticated analysis of performance but a first look that can be built on if required.

Observations