Have you tried running expiration with skipdirs=yes?  This may run quicker
and expire most of the data.

When we had long runing expirations we did this (also running regular
expiration).

-----Original Message-----
From: Joni Moyer [mailto:joni.moyer AT HIGHMARK DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 10:10 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: UNLOAD/RELOAD DB


Another of my problems is that expiration hasn't been able to run from
beginning to end, I set a duration of approximately 7 hours.  Could this
also be causing performance/DB growth?  Thanks!

Available Space (MB): 60,456
        Assigned Capacity (MB): 60,456
        Maximum Extension (MB): 0
        Maximum Reduction (MB): 8,044
             Page Size (bytes): 4,096
            Total Usable Pages: 15,476,736
                    Used Pages: 12,913,875
                      Pct Util: 83.4
                 Max. Pct Util: 83.5
              Physical Volumes: 26
             Buffer Pool Pages: 24,576
         Total Buffer Requests: 4,229,185
                Cache Hit Pct.: 98.30
               Cache Wait Pct.: 0.00
           Backup in Progress?: No
    Type of Backup In Progress:
  Incrementals Since Last Full: 9
Changed Since Last Backup (MB): 149.34
            Percentage Changed: 0.30
Last Complete Backup Date/Time: 04/09/2003 09:32:43


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