On Friday, Sep 12, 2003, at 02:52 Australia/Sydney, Ochs, Duane wrote:

I've seen very bad performance from JFS2 on AIX 5.1 under certain
circumstances - as soon as I understand more on the how+why, I'll be
raising a ticket with IBM.

I guess I can sum it up to not enough system to perform the task.
Stopped
the TSM software and the format completes a little more than 1 GB per
minute.

Duane

 -----Original Message-----
From:         Ochs, Duane
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:22 AM
To:   ADSM-L@VM. MARIST. EDU (E-mail)
Subject:      DSMFMT takes forever ( 15 hours). 100 gb

Does anyone know of or had problems with formatting additional space
for
diskpools ?

TSM server : AIX 5.1 ML3 64-bit enabled. 2GB memory 2 cpu H80

Disk type : 6 member raid set about 700 GB

JFS2

Trying to format 100gb diskpool. Each time I have tried it brings the
TSM
server to almost a stand still. TSM is up on the box but nothing is
running during 8 hours of the format. Should be more than enough time
to
format 100gb of space.

Any ideas ?

Duane Ochs
Enterprise Computing

Quad/Graphics

Sussex, Wisconsin
414-566-2375 phone
414-917-0736 beeper
Duane.Ochs AT qg DOT com
www.QG.com

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