Performance Tuning - Parent and Child

[T4FF]

I have a question on performance tuning, something I am unable to test at this moment as a result of not having a distributed installation in our dev environment.

On a distributed installation you have the scenario whereby there are multiple dispatchers, each with their own tuning settings.  But in addition to this, there is an overall set of tuning settings which sit at the top right under properties (the parent settings).

In addition, you can create folders to group similar servers and therefore you could essentially have 3 sets of settings. 

My question is, are they relative?  As in, do they have an impact on each other?Take this scenario for example....

I have 2 servers, each with dual processors that sit within a folder called "Application Tier servers".  I want to give each of these servers number of processes = 2.  If I set each server individually to 2, does their parent settings (i.e. the Application Tier servers folder) need to have it's number of processes setting set to 4?  Following on from that if I then have an additional server (my Content Manager server) sat outside of this folder with number of processes = 2, does the overall setting (top right) need a number of processes = 6?


I have read all sorts of documentation on changing settings, but nothing specifically relating to relationship between the parent and child settings.

Thanks in advance.

[RobsWalker68]

Hi,

The settings are independent and not cumulative in so far as if you change a setting at a lower level in the tree then that will take precedence over the value you may have applied at the parent level.

Regards

Rob

[T4FF]

Thanks Rob, good to know....