Setting the PROCESS_TARGET parameter

The PROCESS_TARGET parameter provides a time profile of minimum numbers of Teamcenter servers to have running on the machine. PROCESS_TARGET is a series of comma-delimited local time and pool minimum pairs. For example: 0700 20, 0730 50, 1100 20, 1300 50, 1900 10 This specifies that at 0700 local time, the pool manager should ensure that a minimum of 20 Teamcenter servers are in the pool, and at 0730 at least 50, and so on, until 1900 when the pool minimum drops to 10. A second example is the single pair 0000 5. This specifies that the pool manager maintain a minimum of 5 at all times. It is desirable that this time profile be a reasonably good estimate of the number of servers needed by user demand. This can be estimated by occasionally monitoring the number of servers assigned to users throughout a representative workday. If this profile is well configured, the value of tuning the next parameter, PROCESS_WARM, becomes low. When choosing the time to set a new minimum, realize that it takes time (based upon PROCESS_CREATION_DELAY) to ramp up from one level to another much higher level. For example, if it is determined that there should be a minimum of 200 at time 1300, and the previous minimum was 100, and PROCESS_CREATION_DELAY has been tuned to 5000 milliseconds, then it could take about (200 – 100) * 5000 = 500,000 milliseconds = 500 seconds = 8.3 minutes to ramp up the additional 100 processes. Thus the limit should be configured to 200 at around time 1250 to ensure 200 are all warm or in use at time 1300.