Actually, this was significantly discussed at Share and the basic
requirement is TSM, take action whatever necessary to keep the server up.
Start by cancelling expiration.  Then nail the client that has the log
pinned.  There were also a number of issues discussed.  Apparently, there
are a lot of dirty blocks being recorded in the log that do not have to be.
I am working to get these requirements voted on.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon, INC
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas A. La Porte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 4:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Recovery Log almost 100%


Given that this is one of the more comman FAQ style questions on this
listserv, I wonder if it's not time for someone to submit a TSM requirement
that the server behave better in a recovery log full situation. This happens
in other databases w/o causing a SIGSEGV. Oracle, for example, simply
prevents any database changes, and only allows new administrative
connections to the database until the log full situation is cleared (by
archiving the online redo logs). It seems that TSM could behave similarly.

Certainly the server is not in a great state when the log segments are full,
but it would seem easier to recover, and somewhat less confusing to
administrators, if it could be done online, rather than in the manner in
which it is handled now. We've all probably experienced a situation where we
are close to the limit on the log size, so we only extend the log a little
bit, and then there is a rush to see if our database backup is going to
finish and clear the log full condition before we use up the additional log
space--lest we find ourselves in the same perilous condition, only *closer*
to the seemingly arbitrary maximum log size.

 -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks SKG
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Sung Y Lee wrote:

>When log reaches 100%, just pray that TSM server process will not
>crash.
>
>
>I say the key is prevention.  Whatever you can do to prevent that from
>happening is the best answer.
>
>There are many things you can do to prevent from growing to 100%. One
>that works for me is I have LogMode set to Roll Forward mode with dbb
>trigger at 38% with incremental between at 3(q dbb) Log is also set to
>maximum allowed without going over limit plus room for extension should
>it ever reaches 100% and TSM crashes.  Have it set at 4.5 GB(To be
>safe).  Max allowed recovery log for TSM 4.1 is 5.3 GB?? I can't recall
>exact value.
>
>
>If the TSM server is in Log mode than more than likely it will have dbb
>trigger set at certain point.   For example,
>adsm> q dbb
>
>Full           Incremental       Log Full         Incrementals
>Device         Device          Percentage  Between
>Class          Class                    Fulls
>----------     -----------     ----------     ------------
>IBM3590        IBM3590                 38                 3
>
>When the recovery log reaches 38%, an incremental database backup will kick
>off up to 3 threes before a full database backup performed.   The most of
>time TSM server will prevent other sessions from establishing when the
>recovery log reaches 100% but will allow the trigger database backup to
>complete and it will bring the recovery log down to 0.  Sometimes TSM
>will simply crash.  If it crashes then you will need to do an emergency
>recovery log extend and bring TSM backup.
>
>Sung Y. Lee
>E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>
>                      brian welsh
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>Hello,
>
>AIX 4.3.3 and server 4.1.1.0.
>
>Last night two archive-schedules had a problem. On the clients there
>were files in a kind of loop and TSM tried to archive them. Result,
>recovery log almost 100%. This was the first time our log is that high.
>Problem on the client solved, but now I have the following question.
>
>I was wondering how other people prevent the log from growing to 100%,
>and how to handle after the log have reached 100%.
>
>Any tip is welcome.
>
>Brian.
>
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