But what I remember is there is limit for no: of aios  any ideas?

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Paul Zarnowski
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 10:45 AM
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Subject: Re: aix and aio?


It is allowed.  It was recommended to us.  We use it here on our AIX
server.  I can't say whether it helps or not, but it doesn't seem to
hurt.

At 09:10 AM 5/28/2004 -0500, Mike Eggleston wrote:
>Is aio suggested/recommended/allowed on AIX? Is anyone
>using it? Does it help? My current tsm server is AIX
>5.2-ML2, 2GB core, lots of ssa disk (though I've requested
>more to increase the local storage pool to the size of the
>nightly incremental backups), and four fiber connections
>directly to tape drives (3590?).
>
>Mike


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