David E Ehresman wrote: >I am moving from an MVS server to an Aix server. When a do a "DEFINE >VOL stgpool filename FORMAT=nnn" the Aix box stops responding until >after the format is done. A monitor shows 100% i/o busy on the disk. >Is this normal Aix behavior? > >
You could (At the expense of peak IO performance) turn on IO pacing... >TSM server = 5.1.1 >Aix = 5.1 >Disk = SSA Raid 5 > >David > > -- I don't suffer from Insanity... | Linux User #16396 I enjoy every minute of it... | | http://www.travellingkiwi.com/ |