I have seen a deadlock situation when trying to delete objects on the same FS.  
Are any of your sessions trying to backup the same fs names/files?
Have you tried killing off the sessions?  Is 100 client sessions at one time 
common?
Are there any helpful messages in the individual client's dsmsched log?
Have you have any network interruptions lately?
Sometimes the big hammer approach is quickest (killing the server) but doesn't 
always point to the cause.

Good luck, 
Mary Vraspir

-----Original Message-----
From: Salak Juraj [mailto:j.salak AT ASAMER DOT AT]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 1:22 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: AW: HELP!!! EMERGENCY!!!

quick ideas:

Maybe your primary storage pool is full and the sessions are in MediaWait
state?

look at Q ACTL on server and

dsmsched.log and
dsmerror.log on clients


Juraj


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Joni Moyer [mailto:joni.moyer AT HIGHMARK DOT COM]
Gesendet: Freitag, 04. April 2003 21:13
An: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Betreff: HELP!!! EMERGENCY!!!


I am running TSM 4.1.5 on OS/390 2.10

I am getting calls from clients about slow backups, restores,etc. on TSM.

I went out and looked and there are 100 sessions going for different
clients, but they aren't ending.  Some are in the IDLEW status, but a
majority of them are in the run status.   What should I look into?

Thanks!

Joni Moyer
Systems Programmer
joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com
(717)975-8338