Hello Geoff,

Richard Sims wrote:
> 
> Geoff - Greetings from Up Over.  ;-)
> 
> >2. Influence of client type.
> >
> >   I have clients of the following types: Novell Netware, Unix, NT, and
> >also NT with the Lotus Notes agent.  Since I have collocation on my
> >onsite tape pool, I was able to determine that the tapes causing trouble
> >all belonged to Notes clients.  Looking at a list of my tape pool today
> >(about 200 volumes), I can say that for the non-Notes clients, the
> >number of clusters is always less than 10.  The Notes client volumes have
> >HUNDREDS (highest today is 967).
> >   I don't know if this is something to do with the Notes agent itself,
> >or just a result of the fact that Notes seems to generate vast numbers of
> >very small documents.
> 
> Though we may have collocation activated in the server, I believe it to be
> the general case that API-based clients either cannot or do not collocate.
> (This is the case with HSM, at least.)  API-based clients which back up
> numerous small client files thus pose a special burden on the server.
> 
setting up several STGs on our Server ( adsm3.1.2.40) I only have one STG with 
(Client) Collocation - this is the only one which shows up 'clusters'
between 2 and just 4 ... This Pool just consists of 2 Clients ( Solaris - 
multipurpose FileServer, client-compression turned on ) and at the moment 
has 19 3590e Volumes / 3 Mio Files  
the reclamation threshold is at 50 % and it runs without problem -  
I just believe it has to do with the number of Clients, kind of Collocation 
in the STG and at last with the total-number of tapes in that pool ...  


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Rainer Wolf


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