Hi Keith,

Go to the link in sig and do a search on

   idle wait 100

and you should get a hit relevant to the issue you describe.

Best regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 01/12/2010
10:44:46 AM:

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> pct idle wait > 100
>
> Keith Arbogast
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> to:
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> ADSM-L
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> 01/12/2010 10:46 AM
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> Sent by:
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> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
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> What does it mean when Pct. Idle Wait and Pct. Comm Wait are large
> numbers greater than 100 as in the node below?  The TSM server is at
> version 5.5.2.1, running on RHEL.
> Thank you,
> Keith Arbogast
>
> tsm: TSMIN01>q node bl-sdd-internal f=d
> Node Name: BL-SDD-INTERNAL
>                        Platform: WinNT
>                 Client OS Level: 6.00
>                  Client Version: Version 5, release 5, level 2.0
>       .............................................
>                            Compression: Client
>        ..........................................
> Last Communication Method Used: Tcp/Ip
>     Bytes Received Last Session: 55,104.51 M
>         Bytes Sent Last Session: 150.61 M
>        Duration of Last Session: 0.05
>     Pct. Idle Wait Last Session: 8,565,047.92
>    Pct. Comm. Wait Last Session: 67,277,175.00
>    Pct. Media Wait Last Session: 0.00