Are you sure it's dsmserv? Stop it and then run 'vmstat'. Maybe it the
problem persists then run 'PerfPMR'

Good luck

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard L. Rhodes [SMTP:rhodesr AT FIRSTENERGYCORP DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 9:10 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Runaway dsmserv
>
> Were having a strange problem.
>
> Over a period of several weeks we saw the cpu utilization of dsmserv rise
> to
> the point it was running our AIX server at 100% utilization.  It was
> running
> at 100% utilization even whan nothing was happening on the server - no
> backups, migration, reclamation, etc.  We called support - they suggested
> we
> reboot our server, which was our idea also.
>
> After the reboot, everything seemed back to normal.  Now, a week after the
> reboot, dsmserv is running a constant 50% of our server, reguardless of
> what's happening.  We're going to cycle dsmserv this afternoon after batch
> processing.  Then, call support, again.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this kind of behavior?
>
> Rick