I guess I can sum it up to not enough system to perform the task. Stopped
the TSM software and the format completes a little more than 1 GB per
minute.

Duane

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Ochs, Duane
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:22 AM
> To:   ADSM-L@VM. MARIST. EDU (E-mail)
> Subject:      DSMFMT takes forever ( 15 hours). 100 gb
>
> Does anyone know of or had problems with formatting additional space for
> diskpools ?
>
> TSM server : AIX 5.1 ML3 64-bit enabled. 2GB memory 2 cpu H80
>
> Disk type : 6 member raid set about 700 GB
>
> JFS2
>
> Trying to format 100gb diskpool. Each time I have tried it brings the TSM
> server to almost a stand still. TSM is up on the box but nothing is
> running during 8 hours of the format. Should be more than enough time to
> format 100gb of space.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Duane Ochs
> Enterprise Computing
>
> Quad/Graphics
>
> Sussex, Wisconsin
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