Re: "Expire Inventory" taking way too long to complete

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Sims
>I thought Expire Inventory was a 'constant' keyed off of how many files >you have and not how many are deleted. This is interesting. Joe - It is "interesting"... The task is indeed proportional to the number of files that have expired, rather than the number of files in the server. We h

Re: "Expire Inventory" taking way too long to complete

2001-02-20 Thread Joe Faracchio
I thought Expire Inventory was a 'constant' keyed off of how many files you have and not how many are deleted. This is interesting. I've heard of shops that only run it on weekends because it takes so long which I don't understand. It's "cancelable" and its "restartable" and so why not run it d

Re: "Expire Inventory" taking way too long to complete

2001-02-20 Thread Ken Sedlacek
Richard, you were right one. After the "expire inventory" was completed, I did the "q occ" (query occupancy) and we had about 6GB of AIX files expire on one of the AIX servers. That explains it!! I just never observed this and was concerned as we all are when "unknown" occurrences are observed.

Re: "Expire Inventory" taking way too long to complete

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Sims
>We issue an expire inventory command on a daily admin schedule. ... >Today, it is taking well over 1 hour to complete. That might be the result of a retention threshold being reached, or a large number of files having gone Inactive some time ago. When the Expire Inventory completes, you will lik

"Expire Inventory" taking way too long to complete

2001-02-20 Thread Ken Sedlacek
We issue an expire inventory command on a daily admin schedule. We have ~1.6M objects in the TSM db. It normally takes ~10-12 minutes to complete. Today, it is taking well over 1 hour to complete. We have no unusual activities occurring that I can see. Does TSM so some "extra" checking on a