ADSM-L

Re: [ADSM-L] instrumentation for the server?

2009-10-12 08:30:35
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] instrumentation for the server?
From: Lindsay Morris <lindsay AT TSMWORKS DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:29:59 -0400
I once saw this when we had set BUFPOOLSIZE way too high.Giving the TSM
server lots of memory starved the OS for memory; things slowed down horribly
until we set BUFPOOLSIZE back to the Performance-tuning-guide
recommendations ( I forget - 1/4 of available memory?)


On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:58 AM, km <km AT grogg DOT org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am currently analyzing a TSM server which uses 100% CPU on 4 cores
> when doing client backups. Almost all of it is privileged times, but
> there are very few IO's and low disk queues for both stgpools, db and log.
>
> Are there any trace flags similar to the client testflag instrument:detail
> but for the server that will allow me to see what the server is spending
> time on?
>
> I've been looking in the problem determination guide but cant find any
> flag similar to instrument_detail except for 'instr' which isnt documented
> and only gives me DB LATCHes.
>
> -km
>



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