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Lock promotion threshold

Asked by: jnefer

Hi,
cud someone let me know what the ideal lock promotion HWM threshold is in Sybase. Im looking at running a stored procedure concurrently with different input pararmeters and so DONT WANT one instance lock the tables. thot increasing the row lock promotion threshold would solve this problem but am not sure what is the ideal value for HWM. will there be any performance degradation in increasing this threshold?

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2009-10-14 at 01:53:28ID24810462
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by: sysdbaPosted on 2009-10-14 at 04:42:26ID: 25569345

page lock promotion HWM (high-water mark), together with the page lock promotion LWM (low-water mark) and page lock promotion PCT (percentage), specifies the number of page locks permitted during a single scan session of a page-locked table or index before Adaptive Server attempts to escalate from page locks to a table lock.

page lock promotion HWM sets a maximum number of page locks allowed on a table before Adaptive Server attempts to escalate to a table lock. When the number of page locks acquired during a scan session exceeds page lock promotion HWM, Adaptive Server attempts to acquire a table lock. The page lock promotion HWM value cannot be higher than number of locks value.

The default value for page lock promotion HWM 200 is appropriate for most applications. You might want to raise the value to avoid table locking. For example, if you know that there are regular updates to 500 pages of an allpages-locked or datapages-locked table containing thousands of pages, you can increase concurrency for the tables by setting page lock promotion HWM to 500 so that lock promotion does not occur at the default setting of 200.

But effecting lock granularity will effect performance, not necessarily degrade it but will effect. when database engine esquires lock it is spending some resources the lower lock granularity is more locks it should esquire thus spend more resources. in your case instead of 1 table lock you will use 500 page locks. monitor CPU consumption it will need more CPU

Use sp_sysmon to see how changing page lock promotion HWM affects the number of lock promotions. sp_sysmon reports the ratio of exclusive page to exclusive table lock promotions and the ratio of shared page to shared table lock promotions.

 

by: jneferPosted on 2009-10-14 at 05:08:12ID: 25569519

hi, tx for the solution. I have each query inside a transaction and commit them after evry 10000 records are processed. So will a HWM of 15000 help to resolve table lock promotions and run processes concurrently?

 

by: sysdbaPosted on 2009-10-14 at 06:09:04ID: 25569994

depends on page size and row size of records that are effected by transaction. 

use sp_sysmon to determine how lock promotion is effected .

sp_sysmon begin_sample

go

execute proc1

go

sp_sysmon end_sample, dcache

http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.help.ase_15.0.sprocs/html/sprocs/sprocs207.htm

 

by: jneferPosted on 2009-10-14 at 08:29:57ID: 25571690

do you want me to retain the default HWM which will be 200 and then use sp_sysmon?
yes, i shall do that and watch if there are any table lock promotions. If there were any table lock promotions then we can look at increasing the HWM right?  I shall keep you posted in a day. Thanks for the solution!

 

by: sysdbaPosted on 2009-10-14 at 09:23:14ID: 25572276

yes first try default value, then optimize it based on your needs and monitor resource consumption, it can have effect, ensure that it is acceptable  

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