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Re: ADSM-L Digest - 24 Jan 1996 to 25 Jan 1996

1996-01-26 10:07:12
Subject: Re: ADSM-L Digest - 24 Jan 1996 to 25 Jan 1996
From: Chuck Tomlinson 793-0730 <chuckt AT AUSTIN.IBM DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:07:12 -0600
>
> Date:    Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:07:30 +0100
> From:    Helmut Richter <Helmut.Richter AT LRZ-MUENCHEN DOT DE>
> Subject: Re: Audit DB times
>
> On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Simon Travaglia wrote:
>
> > An AUDITDB of this takes DAYS and DAYS to run.  And days.
> >
> > It's running on an RS6000 C10 with 128Mbyte (very little free) and
> > appears to have strange usages in terms of cpu during the audit
> >
> > It started off quickly, got to 3 million entries quite fast.
> > From 3 million to 7 million very slow
> > From  7 million to 12 million now pretty fast.
>
> You are pretty lucky that things are speeding up again. We saw the same
> problem with 40 million entries total: 13 million quite fast (1 day), 1
> more million very slow (5 weeks), then given up. After 5 weeks wall clock
> time and 1.5 million secs CPU time we decided that it would virtually
> never terminate.
>

This is intresting.  How big is your DB and what were you running it on.
I just ran an "audit DB fix=yes" on my system (RISC/6000 560 running AIX 4.1.3)
and to audit 198,000,000 records took a little over 24 hours.  I take it that
your ADSM server was down during the 5 weeks.   Have you gotten any better
performance after you reloaded?  I'm just asking because I have just recently
set up some servers for use here and I expect the data base to get very large.

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