HP-UX Workload Manager A.03.00 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2

HP-UX Workload Manager Release Notes

Compatibility information and installation requirements

Step 3. Determine what patches are needed

a. Check the following data to determine what patches are suggested for WLM.

If you plan to use the WLM configuration wizard, the wlmgui command, or

wlminfo’s interactive mode GUI (-i), all of which depend on Java, see the

following website for patch information:

http://www.hp.com/go/java

On HP-UX 11i v1, apply patch PHCO_29109 to address a pthread library issue.

For the latest information on WLM patches, visit the “Patches / support” page

available from http://www.hp.com/go/wlm.

For HP-UX 11i v1, the following patches are available.

For HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23), install the following patches.

Table 1-3 HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) patches for WLM

HP-UX 11i v1

patch

Description

PHKL_32619 Memory Resource Groups (MRG) patch

PHKL_30034,

PHKL_30035,

PHKL_31993,

PHKL_31995,

PHKL_32061

NOTE: Install all these patches at the same time.

These patches:

• Preserve allocations in cases where a workload group with a

large allocation and just enough jobs to get that allocation could

be outperformed by a smaller allocation group with more jobs

• Improve performance of I/O-based applications when the

Fair-Share Scheduler (FSS) is enabled

Table 1-4 HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) patch for WLM

HP-UX 11i v2

patch

Description

BUNDLE11i

patch bundle

Bundle of patches (Installing this bundle updates your system to

HP-UX 11i v2 Update 2.)

PHKL_33052 Prevents performance degradation when using workload groups

that are based on FSS groups in a single-processor virtual partition,

nPartition, or system