Re: TSM causing client disk contention

2005-04-26 Thread Matthew Glanville
Other than lowering the backup process prioritys another way to cause TSM to use less resources is to set 'MEMORYEFFICIENT YES' in the options. This will cause TSM to use less memory, and also slow down it's disk scanning. Also check TSM's 'copy group' serialization parameters, the default of 'sha

Re: TSM causing client disk contention

2005-04-26 Thread Troy Frank
There is a way to do that. Just set the backup process to "BelowNormal" or "Low" priority. Troy Frank Network Services University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation 608.829.5384 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/26/2005 10:15:24 AM >>> Paul - In Unix, at least, a less important process (the backup, in

Re: TSM causing client disk contention

2005-04-26 Thread Richard Sims
Paul - In Unix, at least, a less important process (the backup, in this case) can be "reniced" to reduce its impact, giving the more important processes a higher relative priority in accessing resources. There may be a similar mechanism for Windows. Incremental backups have a considerable impact be

Re: TSM causing client disk contention

2005-04-26 Thread Curtis Stewart
respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: TSM causing client disk contention At 07:33 PM 4/25/2005, Coats, Jack wrote: >Our solutions: >* Start backups when users have supposedly gone home. Thanks for the suggestions so far. I should h

Re: TSM causing client disk contention

2005-04-26 Thread Paul Zarnowski
At 07:33 PM 4/25/2005, Coats, Jack wrote: Our solutions: * Start backups when users have supposedly gone home. Thanks for the suggestions so far. I should have mentioned that this is for an application server who's performance is important 24x7. We do already schedule during off-peak, but even so

Re: TSM causing client disk contention

2005-04-25 Thread Coats, Jack
, April 25, 2005 3:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM causing client disk contention We have a couple of clients here (Sun, Windows) who have noticed dramatic slowdowns on their application servers when TSM incremental backups run. Has anyone developed mechanisms to address this? TIA

Re: TSM causing client disk contention

2005-04-25 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski >We have a couple of clients here (Sun, Windows) who have >noticed dramatic >slowdowns on their application servers when TSM incremental backups >run. Has anyone developed mechanisms to address this? TIA Two pos

TSM causing client disk contention

2005-04-25 Thread Paul Zarnowski
We have a couple of clients here (Sun, Windows) who have noticed dramatic slowdowns on their application servers when TSM incremental backups run. Has anyone developed mechanisms to address this? TIA ..Paul -- Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 719 Rhodes Hall, Cornell Univers