I suppose you could answer that question by monitoring CPU utilization (
or paging) during the expire / reclamation cycle.

Try the free demo of something like application manager 6 and monitor
it for several days and see if there is a spike during those times.

>>> Ray.Louvier AT HALLIBURTON DOT COM 09/27/2005 9:07:30 AM >>>
I have a question to the group that I hope I can get some answer or
pointed to some doc's on. I have to justify buying an AIX 550 over a
AIX
520. My argument is, that our Database backups and expire inventories
are running longer than they should on our 1 G two cpu 520 running 5.3
AIX. The expire inventory runs for at least 5 to 6 hours and usually
has
about 700000 items. Our disk for the DB are separate channels raw disk
on an I/o chassis. My belief is that those two processes are CPU
intensive.. Am I correct? Our DB is about 50 GB. We backup about 230
nodes and about 1.3 TB a night. We are running TSM 5.2.4.



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