Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

2000-11-06 Thread Sheelagh Treweek
Hi, In my experience a large DB (60GB+) needs a big DB bufferpool in order to perform well. We reckon on 2GB per TSM server. There is little point in having much more than 2GB because the server cannot use it (on AIX at least). I believe that as distributed the TSM server code is built to utili

Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

2000-11-03 Thread Kronstadt, Dan
ubject: Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM >We currently have two 60 GB ADSM databases on IBM H50s with 1GB of >memory each. We have to >add more memory on the systems due to performance issues. Our database will >keep growing >and will probably be at 80GB within the next 3 to 6 mo

Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

2000-11-03 Thread Richard Sims
> Look at "Cache Hit Pct." and "Cache Wait Pct." in the q db f=d >output. You want to see cache hit % in the 98-99 range and Wait% to be >zero. If these numbers are not in these ranges, then your performance >suffers. Increasing BUFPOOLSIZE in dsmserv.opt is the knob to turn, but >if you tu

Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

2000-11-03 Thread Richard Sims
>Agreed, but I'm sure you've had to do some explaining in the >past for purchases and it's not always that simple. It depends upon the nature of the people in charge and organizational culture. Back when I worked for The Phone Company, that was a large bureaucracy with General Purpose Ma

Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

2000-11-03 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
CTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Marco Bartolucci Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM Importance: Low Agreed, but I'm sure you've had to do some exp

Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

2000-11-03 Thread Steven P Roder
> Agreed, but I'm sure you've had to do some explaining in the > past for purchases and it's not always that simple. I have all the > data I need to ask for more memory. What I would like is responses > from others who have large databases and this may or may not help me > to get more th

Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

2000-11-03 Thread Marco Bartolucci
more than 1 GB of additional memory. Marco -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM >We currently have two 60 GB ADSM databases on IBM H50s with 1GB of

Re: Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

2000-11-03 Thread Richard Sims
>We currently have two 60 GB ADSM databases on IBM H50s with 1GB of >memory each. We have to >add more memory on the systems due to performance issues. Our database will >keep growing >and will probably be at 80GB within the next 3 to 6 months. The amount of >memory to purchase >is still up

Memory Sizing for ADSM/TSM

2000-11-03 Thread Marco Bartolucci
Hi, We currently have two 60 GB ADSM databases on IBM H50s with 1GB of memory each. We have to add more memory on the systems due to performance issues. Our database will keep growing and will probably be at 80GB within the next 3 to 6 months. The amount of memory to purchase is still up i