Hello,

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 09:00:10AM -0400, Dury, John C. wrote:
> This is a weird one and I have opened a pmr with IBM but I thought I would
> check with you all and see if anyone had any ideas what is going on.  I have
> a TSM 6.3.4.300 server running on RHEL5 with all the latest maintenance
> installed, and when I try to connect to it via an admin session, either
> locally from within the server via loopback (127.0.0.1) or remotely using an
> admin client, it seems to take several minutes before I connect and get any
> response back. SSHing into the server is almost immediate so it's not the OS.
> The server is not extremely busy and this happens when it is doing almost
> nothing and is very consistent. I have an almost identical TSM server that
> does not have this problem at all. I can immediately connect via an admin
> client and I immediately get a response. I have compared both the dsmserv.opt
> files on both servers as well as the /etc/sysctl.conf files and nothing seems
> to be out of place. I don't see anything odd in the db2diag.*.log file
> either. I'm just not sure where else to look or what could be causing this
> but it is definitely affecting backup performance since the backup clients
> can take several minutes just to connect to the server.
> Ideas?

just a wild guess, but take a look at this:
    
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21667740&myns=swgtiv&mynp=OCSSGSG7&mync=E

HTH & best regards,

    Frank