What is the state of the sessions most of the time?
Jeff Bach
Home Office Open Systems Engineering
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Robert Clark [SMTP:res03db2 AT GTE DOT NET]
        Sent:   Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:18 PM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: TSM server performance help

        I/O hotspot on hdisk4? Maybe spread the I/O out?

        What maintenance level is the OS at?

        [RC]


        On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 04:46:30PM -0700, Chuck Lam wrote:
        > Server:  M80 running AIX 4.3.3, 4GB RAM, 768MB ps
        >          DiskStoragePool, Rlog, & Database on all on a
        >           SAN via fibre channel connection.
        > TSM version:    4.1
        >
        > This is a newly configured system.  We are conducting
        > tests on it. When we tried to do a few backups by
        > themselves, they seemed to get done pretty fast.
        > However, when we had 4 migration processes and a
        > couple of backups going at the same time, everything
        > slowed down to a halt.  According to my client, his
        > backup transfer speed was about 100MB per minute. Can
        > anyone give me some suggestions to improve the
        > performance?  I have attached the 'topas' reading of
        > this server.
        >
        > TIA
        >
        >


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