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Excessive and abnormal slowness to generate excel report output

Troubleshooting


Problem

ALL EXPORT TO EXCEL OUTPUT IS HIGHLY SLOW
 

Symptom

SLOWNESS

Cause


On this particular AIX system the following environment variable is set :


 MALLOCTYPE=watson


This memory allocation setting is causing the issue.

Environment

AIX

Diagnosing The Problem

Comparing the user environment

Resolving The Problem


Remove this environment variable and restart Cognos

Note : 

By removing this they will revert back to the default allocation policy.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-memoryallocation/index.html
 

Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
11 February 2020

UID

ibm11846485