WF-BATCH takes all dialog processes

[Soady, Phil]

Parallel server group allows full control over 1 or more servers.

eg  5 WPs on server 1 
and 4 WPs on APP server 2
no wps on App server 3
The load being split over all servers with 1 or more WP allocations.



Phil Soady
Senior Consultant
Business Technologies
SAP Australia 
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-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Mike Pokraka
Sent: Tuesday,26 July 2005 5:55 PM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: WF-BATCH takes all dialog processes

On one server? :-)

Soady, Phil wrote:
> Consider using rfc parallel server groups to maximise Event processing
> whilst leaving an acceptable amount of system resource available.
>
> See SWEQADM event delivery tab. See the parallel option.
> Parallel RFC server groups are defined in RZ12.
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil Soady
> Senior Consultant
> Business Technologies
> SAP Australia
> M  +61 (0) 412 213 079
> E  phil.soady at sap.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On
Behalf
> Of Mike Pokraka
> Sent: Monday,25 July 2005 11:27 PM
> To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
> Subject: RE: WF-BATCH takes all dialog processes
>
> Yep, the number of events is the amount that will be processed every
> minute. Event = dialog process to start a workflow.
> Cheers
> Mike
>
> robert.van.den.berg at accenture.com wrote:
>> But I have about 2000 events which have to be processed within a
> couple of
>> hours....
>>
>> So if I set the eventqueue to 10 events, only 10 dialog processes are
>> used?
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> Van: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu namens Mike Pokraka
>> Verzonden: ma 7/25/2005 14:15
>> Aan: SAP Workflow Users' Group
>> Onderwerp: Re: WF-BATCH takes all dialog processes
>>
>>
>>
>> No, just limit the number of events per run. I don't think  you can
>> limit the number of dialog processes, since each process runs in it's
>> own logon rather than a 'new session' equivalent.
>>
>> robert.van.den.berg at accenture.com wrote:
>>
>>>Should the event queue job then be scheduled under WF-BATCH and limit
> the
>>> number of dialog processes for WF-BATCH?
>>>
>>>________________________________
>>>
>>>Van: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu namens Michael Pokraka
>>>Verzonden: do 7/7/2005 16:16
>>>Aan: SAP Workflow Users' Group
>>>Onderwerp: RE: WF-BATCH takes all dialog processes
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Robert,
>>>The number of events per run applies to the user under which the
>>> RSWEQwhatever
>>>job is scheduled. The WF-Batch sessions are as a result of events
> created
>>> by
>>>this user, so reducing this number will obviously reduce the WF-BATCH
>>> load as
>>>well. This is exactly what the EVQ is meant to do.
>>>
>>>Mike and Dave's suggestions are both excellent if you have to further
>>> tune it
>>>and/or get the best possible rate of WFs with minimal disruption to
>>> users.
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>Mike
>>>
>>>--- robert.van.den.berg at accenture.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>We have 1 server, how can I set the limit for WF-BATCH? As it looks
> to
>>>> me,
>>>>the setting in SWEQADM is general, so no option to specify a setting
>>>> just for
>>>>WF-BATCH.
>>>>
>>>>________________________________
>>>>
>>>>Van: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu namens Michael Pokraka
>>>>Verzonden: do 7/7/2005 11:11
>>>>Aan: SAP Workflow Users' Group
>>>>Onderwerp: RE: WF-BATCH takes all dialog processes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Good point. Of course there's always the simple option of just
> reducing
>>>> the
>>>>number of events per run :-)
>>>>
>>>>--- Dave Weston <Dave.Weston at clockwork.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>It might be worth checking out RFC server groups in SWEQADM for
your
>>>>> config
>>>>>under 'Event Delivery' called 'server group definition'. With this
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>mechanism
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>you can limit the number of dialogs used.
>>>>>
>>>>>Cheers
>>>>>Dave
>>>>>
>>>>>________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>>From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu on behalf of
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>robert.van.den.berg at accenture.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Sent: Wed 7/6/2005 3:00 PM
>>>>>To: SAP-WUG at mit.edu
>>>>>Subject: WF-BATCH takes all dialog processes
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>>we are running workflows but we have the following problem:
>>>>>if the eventmanager get's a free batch-proces to process the
events,
>>>>> the
>>>>>eventmanager processes the number of events which is given in
> SWEQADM.
>>>>>Then the workflowmanager takes over and the workflows start /
> continue.
>>>>>WF-BATCH then takes all the dialog processes to execute the
> workflows.
>>>>>
>>>>>Why does WF-BATCH take all the dialog processes? And how can we
make
> it
>>>>>possible that for instance he takes only 2 dialog processes?
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>Robert
>>>>>
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