Initiators

[Nolan Pillay]

Hi,

I require more information on how initiators work and how they are allocated by the agent?
Are they only allocated when executing or for any state of the job including WAITING,etc ?
Example, we have an environment where the initiators are set to 5000 on the agent but there are 50000 jobs that are in various states on that agent.
How would initiators be allocated for this example ?

I can't find any information on the ESP DSeries product page.

Regards
Nolan

[Nitin Pande]

Hi,
Each job requires an initiator thread to run.  When job goes from to EXEC state, the agent uses a thread for the job.  Thread is released back to agent when job is COMPLETE or FAILED.
You can increase the default initiator, which is set at 1000 to higher number.  Increase it only if you see all the threads have used up, this can be checked in

initiatormanager.log.

HTH,
Nitin Pande