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> ANR0306I Recovery log volume mount in progress.
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> I have waited for Half an Hour and there seemd to be no disk activity.
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>IBM's first suggestion is to upgrade the version.
Their first initiative should have been to find out what the problem is.
See what in-depth analysis you can do. Follow the suggestions in Reinhard
Mersch's posting about start-up times vs. database size and processor speed.
>From operating the server historically, you should have data as to how server
start-up time has been growing as the database has grown. (That information
can be gleaned from the Activity Log entries for when the server came back
into service vs. your operating system indications as to when the server
process started.) If this problem is occurring every time you restart the
server, then what you're seeing is not an abnormality but a systemic problem,
perhaps relating to configuration (disk layout over SCSI adapters, number of
volumes constituting the server db for more parallelism through more threads,
etc.) We presume you've checked the AIX Error Log for any disk or interface
problems impeding the server. Have your AIX people monitor the server and I/O
paths as it starts to see what it's doing. Maybe your AIX system's real
memory size is inadequate now for the size of your TSM services such that it's
thrashing on paging? Maybe your processor is inadequate now? (For a server
of that size, I hope you're running a multiprocessor system.) There are many
things to look at, which your AIX people should be able to help with.
If you can't make any headway, have Tivoli Support help. They should have
suggested working with you to activate server tracing to determine what it's
doing, and thus help you make whatever changes are needed to relieve this
situation - particularly as you're a large customer.
Richard Sims, BU
