We have never had a prob. on JFS2, it whizzes along well. Are you formatting a single 100Gig SP ?? Personally I'd break it up into at least 4 volumes ??
Adrian -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ripke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 12 September 2003 8:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DSMFMT takes forever ( 15 hours). 100 gb On Friday, Sep 12, 2003, at 02:52 Australia/Sydney, Ochs, Duane wrote: I've seen very bad performance from JFS2 on AIX 5.1 under certain circumstances - as soon as I understand more on the how+why, I'll be raising a ticket with IBM. > I guess I can sum it up to not enough system to perform the task. > Stopped > the TSM software and the format completes a little more than 1 GB per > minute. > > Duane > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ochs, Duane >> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:22 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MARIST. EDU (E-mail) >> Subject: DSMFMT takes forever ( 15 hours). 100 gb >> >> Does anyone know of or had problems with formatting additional space >> for >> diskpools ? >> >> TSM server : AIX 5.1 ML3 64-bit enabled. 2GB memory 2 cpu H80 >> >> Disk type : 6 member raid set about 700 GB >> >> JFS2 >> >> Trying to format 100gb diskpool. Each time I have tried it brings the >> TSM >> server to almost a stand still. TSM is up on the box but nothing is >> running during 8 hours of the format. Should be more than enough time >> to >> format 100gb of space. >> >> Any ideas ? >> >> Duane Ochs >> Enterprise Computing >> >> Quad/Graphics >> >> Sussex, Wisconsin >> 414-566-2375 phone >> 414-917-0736 beeper >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> www.QG.com >> >> > > -- Paul Ripke Unix/OpenVMS/TSM/DBA I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -- Douglas Adams This message and any attachment is confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system; you should not copy the message or disclose its contents to anyone. ==============================================================================
