Expediting Express Requests - comment by StevenSchmid

Hi Carrie
Thanks for your detailed reply.
Yes, we are on SLES10 TD13.10, will upgrade to SLES11 sometime in the new year, after the 15.0 upgrade.
I have found the Orange book you mentioned, very informative.
I have a question, if tactical workloads are not defined, does that mean that the AWTs assigned to Work08,09,10 will go unused, or with 13.10 do tactical queries go to Work01 ?  Or, if Work08,09,10 are active, are they only assigned AWTs if the "Reserved AWTs" are assigned a number > 0 ?  If Work08,09,10 are assigned AWTs with the "Reserved AWTs=0", will setting up a tactical workload (single/few amp or CPU < 2 secs) make use of the AWTs at no extra AWT overhead, as we currently get flow control.  I will do some analysis, and if the number of queries classifying into the tactical workload is large, then I can assign some reserved AWTs which will be taken from the 62 AWT reserve pool (default 80 AWT).
Another question if you don't mind, is I was also considering increasing the AWTs from 80 to say 90, however we only have 96GB 6650H nodes.  I did see on one of your blogs, that this would increase memory on the nodes, I think from memory it would be "30 amps/node x 10 newAWTs x 2 MB = 600 MB/node", which doesn't seem excessive.  I can also discuss this with Teradata Customer Services, as the Customer really does not want to invest in additional hardware if at all possible
Cheers
Steven