ADSM-L

Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 7.1 and dedup "chunking" issues

2014-07-02 08:14:24
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 7.1 and dedup "chunking" issues
From: Stefan Folkerts <stefan.folkerts AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 14:12:30 +0200
Also :

>>32 cores, 256 GB RAM, DB and activelog on SSD.

Wow, that's pretty serieus.

Also, if I might ask, what is your daily backup/archive ingest, how much
data do you manage and what type of disk (system/config) do you use for
your filepool storage?



On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Bent Christensen <BVC AT cowi DOT dk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I remember noticing that there were some dedup housekeeping (removal of
> dereferenced chunks) issues with TSM Server 6.3.4.200 and that a fix was
> released. We used 6.3.4.200 for a while as stepping stone on our road from
> 5.5 to 7.1 but without the fix.
>
> Now, on 7.1, I am seeing some stuff that makes me worry a bit - initiated
> by a gut feeling that there are more data in my dedup pool than there
> should be.
>
> SHOW DEDUPDELETEINFO shows that I have +30M chunks waiting in queue and
> the number is increasing. It also shows that I right now have 8 active
> worker threads with a total of 5.8M  queued, but only approx. 4000
> chunks/hour get deleted.
>
> Any knowing if these numbers make sense?
>
> We use a full-blown TSM server on Windows, 32 cores, 256 GB RAM, DB and
> activelog on SSD.
>
>  - Bent
>