>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:44:45 -0700, "Gill, Geoffrey L." <GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT 
>> SAIC DOT COM> said:


> Although I have an open issue with TSM and AIX support on poor
> performance I was wondering if anyone might want to chime in on this
> subject. This are taking way too long on a 4 processor system that
> took 1/3 the time on my 2 processor box. Db backups are 5+ hours on
> a 120gb db that is 35% used.  Expiration is taking forever, backups
> are still running in the AM when I get in.



> Any thoughts from anyone?

> TSM 5.3.3.0 on AIX 5.3

...

What's the hardware, what's the underlying DB disk tech, how much
memory, etc?

What's your assessment of the database cache size?

There's really not enough information in your question to start
evaluating, except at the "Tune Your Machine" level...



- Allen S. Rout