Tried it as 4-25 GB. With the TSM software down, it takes about the same
amount of time 1 gb per minute.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Hicks [mailto:Adrian.Hicks AT BTFINANCIALGROUP DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:59 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: DSMFMT takes forever ( 15 hours). 100 gb


We have never had a prob. on JFS2, it whizzes along well. Are you
formatting a single 100Gig SP ?? Personally I'd break it up into at
least 4 volumes ??

Adrian

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ripke [mailto:stix AT STIX.HOMEUNIX DOT NET]
Sent: Friday, 12 September 2003 8:19 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: DSMFMT takes forever ( 15 hours). 100 gb


On Friday, Sep 12, 2003, at 02:52 Australia/Sydney, Ochs, Duane wrote:

I've seen very bad performance from JFS2 on AIX 5.1 under certain
circumstances - as soon as I understand more on the how+why, I'll be
raising a ticket with IBM.

> 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
>> 414-566-2375 phone
>> 414-917-0736 beeper
>> Duane.Ochs AT qg DOT com
>> www.QG.com
>>
>>
>
>
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