At 12:02 PM -0500 2/12/03, Darby, Mark wrote:

 It is totally counter-intuitive to me that reducing the memory
footprint would yield these results, but it has.

Is your system memory-constrained?  Are you experiencing high paging
rates?  It's possible that increasing TSM's memory demand increases
paging to a point where overall system performance goes down the
toilet if you don't have sufficient real memory to back it.
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