ADSM-L

Re: [ADSM-L] Is there a v5.4 64 bit AIX client still?

2007-09-19 05:08:24
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Is there a v5.4 64 bit AIX client still?
From: Henrik Ahlgren <pablo AT ELMA DOT NET>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:04:38 +0300
On Sep 18, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Richard Sims wrote:

One would think that the 64-bit client would operate with no "tricks"
needed to make it do what you expect, but no...  See Technote 1259376.

With your /etc/security/limits values set unlimited (-1), in Cshell
you might try the following:

  dsmc q systeminfo -con osinfo    (see values before)
  unlimit
  dsmc q systeminfo -con osinfo    (no change in data segment size?)
  setenv LDR_CNTRL MAXDATA=0
  dsmc q systeminfo -con osinfo    (data segment size now infinite)

Ok, it seems that this a bit more hairy than that.

With LDR_CNTRL set to MAXDATA=0 the systeminfo command says that data segment size is infinite. Great. But when I try to run the incremental backup, it fails after 15,000 files! Also, the way it fails, is somewhat random.

First try:
Fatal error: got signal 11
IOT/Abort trap

Second try:
ANS1030E The operating system refused a TSM request for memory allocation.

Third try:
Fatal error: got signal  4
IOT/Abort trap

I believe the MAXDATA setting is the number of 256 MB segments and 0 is the default (256 MB).

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/ITAME/SC32-1351-00/en_US/HTML/ am51_perftune113.htm

Well, the naive idea is to set MAXDATA to 0xF00000. But it seems that 8 is the maximum, and the backup fails after using ~ 2 GB, like before. Maybe I need to use LDR_CNTRL=LARGE_PAGE_DATA=Y or something?

Terveisin

Henrik Ahlgren
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