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Re: CPU usage and sizinging

2005-09-27 13:58:19
Subject: Re: CPU usage and sizinging
From: Sung Y Lee <sunglee AT US.IBM DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:56:39 -0400
The one I use here to monitor CPU usage in AIX is command called Topas
http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixbman/prftungd/2365c53.htm


Sung Y. Lee

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 09/27/2005
09:21:54 AM:

> 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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