Expire inventory "features"
1999-10-06 23:00:35
Hi... has anyone noticed these (err) features with the inventory
expiry under 3.1.2.40?
Feature #0:
Expire inventory works through the nodes in the order they were
registered; first registered is expired first.
If you cancel an EXPIRE INVENTORY process and restart it some time
later it will pick up where it left off. This is a good thing. But
leads to feature #1:
ADSM starts at the beginning of the file space it was last
examining.
Therefore, if you have a regime in which expiry is run every day, is
cancelled after 4 hours and have a file system that takes (say) 5
hours to examine, then ADSM will stay stuck on that one file system.
But wait, if you order now you can get feature #2 for no extra cost!
If you use 'expire inventory duration=nnn' and expiration is cancelled
because it has exceeded the duration, you get feature #2:
The next expiration starts from the beginning of the node list.
So if you try to use duration=nnn to control expirations, you will
just expire the same set of file systems over and over again.
And feature #3 (at least on my system)
The server leaks memory if expire inventory and client
sessions run concurrently.
... our ADSM server [process] has crashed three Saturdays in a row.
Each time the server process has grown from a sedate 128MB-140MB
footprint to 570MB+ and paging madly.
If expire inv is not running, no Satuday crash. (I don't have the
courage to run expire inv during a weekday backup window ;)
Before I try to raise this with IBM service, does anyone else see
these sorts of effects?
You probably need a large client base --- we have ~600 clients and a
30GB database, so small sites and test systems won't show it up.
Russell
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