Re: Problem with drive
I went in and toggled the drive and path "Online" then off-line and it came back. It took toggling the "Path" to get it to come back. Thanks for the help, Eric -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Huebner Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Problem with drive If the drive and the path are on-line, then TSM should try to use the drive. When TSM tries to use the drive the Status will change accordingly. We see this situation frequently. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jones, Eric J Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:32 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:[ADSM-L] Problem with drive We are running TSM 5.2.2 server on AIX with clients 5.2.2(windows/UNIX). We had the picker hang up today and is in the process of being repaired. We are running a IBM 3484 library. The problem is with RMT1 which is now showing "Drive State: UNKNOWN" but the other drives look fine. How can I change it back to "EMPTY" since the drive is empty? I tried to toggle it "OFFLINE" then back "ONLINE" but it stayed in the same state. === Library Name: 3584LIB3 Drive Name: RMT1 Device Type: LTO On-Line: Yes Read Formats: ULTRIUM2C,ULTRIUM2,ULTRIUMC,ULTRI UM Write Formats: ULTRIUM2C,ULTRIUM2,ULTRIUMC,ULTRI UM Element: 269 Drive State: UNKNOWN Allocated to: WWN: 500507630007A911 Serial Number: 1110111802 Last Update by (administrator): JONES Last Update Date/Time: 07/18/05 12:54:55 Cleaning Frequency (Gigabytes/ASNEEDED/NONE): ASNEEDED = Eric Jones PLATFORM AND SERVER SOLUTIONS Owego, NY Phone: 607-751-4133 This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
Re: TSM Support for Fedora Linux?
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Stef Coene wrote: On Friday 22 July 2005 19:34, Laura Buckley wrote: Hi - I have a potential customer who is requesting a client for Fedora Linux. I can't seem to find a reference on any of the IBM websites that indicates support in TSM for this client. Does anyone out there know if it there is a client for it? Just use the regular linux client and you will be fine. I have not tried it on Fedora, but I know it runs on different versions of Debian and SLES. We run it fine on FC1, 2 and 3. Haven't tried 4 yet, but I've got high hopes. Also works on FC 64 bit kernels too. Alex
Re: ANR0670E
Richard, What I found this week was that the error message was correct, but the circumstances murky. When I moved all the files for the client to disk before exporting, the message I got was "insufficient space in storagepool..." in a stgpool not even known to the exporting server, a place holder for when I have to start exporting from server2 next week. What did catch my eye was that it had the highest RETO in the DOMAIN, which lead me to the DIRMC stgpool, which surprisingly, had no volumes assigned to it. Once the hardware guys put some storage on, the export went fine, but only if it goes directly from disk. But that's another story. At 08:13 AM 7/15/2005 -0400, you wrote: ... 07/14/2005 14:06:27 ANR0687E IMPORT (from Server TSM): Transaction failure - could not commit database transaction. (SESSION: 228, PROCESS: 8) ... Fred - Well, I think what you have there is a system with a fear of commitment. Whereas you are exporting to a higher level TSM system, that should be fine. (Export-Import is documented as happy to operate where the importing TSM server is at least the same level as the exporting one; and it should even work across architectural platforms.) One thing I would assure is that neither the sending nor receiving TSM server is doing any significant database work at the time of the export, per the manual advisory: "Because of unpredictable results, do not run expiration, migration, backup, or archive when issuing the EXPORT NODE command." Whenever documentation talks about "unpredictable results", take all cautions. To try to narrow the problem down, what I would do is: Try the export with MERGEfilespaces=No, unless you really need that. If you do need it, I would try exporting the filespaces individually, rather than en mass, and see if there's one in particular which incites the problem. My intuition says that merging is at the heart of this problem, where there may be some kind of policy conflict or name confusion. Merging is highly complex, and lots could go wrong. If the problem persists, you should contact TSM Support. Do not take any database actions on your own: they will advise and guide. In conjunction with this, it would be prudent to scan your historic Activity Log records on the problem system and see if there is any evidence of irregularities, particularly in the database: such info will help the support person in getting a handle on the situation. Let us know the final resolution, for our communal edification. Richard Sims Fred Johanson ITSM Administrator University of Chicago 773-702-8464
Re: TSM Support for Fedora Linux?
On Friday 22 July 2005 19:34, Laura Buckley wrote: > Hi - > > > > I have a potential customer who is requesting a client for Fedora Linux. > I can't seem to find a reference on any of the IBM websites that > indicates support in TSM for this client. Does anyone out there know if > it there is a client for it? Just use the regular linux client and you will be fine. I have not tried it on Fedora, but I know it runs on different versions of Debian and SLES. Stef
Admin schedule shows failure when nothing to migrate
TSM Server: ver 5.3.1.2 Host: RS6000 Running the schedule command 'MIGRATE STGPOOL LOGDISKPOOL LO=0' at the console only gives the ANR4924E message. Running it as an Administrative Schedule gives the following indications as a failure. Ideas? 07/21/05 06:06:08 ANR4924E MIGRATE STGPOOL: Migration is not needed for the storage pool LOGDISKPOOL. (SESSION: 6408) 07/21/05 06:06:08 ANR2753I (MIG_LOGDISKPOOL):ANR4924E MIGRATE STGPOOL: Migration is (SESSION: 6408) 07/21/05 06:06:08 ANR2752E Scheduled command MIG_LOGDISKPOOL failed. (SESSION: 6408)
Re: ANR9999D pkthread.c(1037): ThreadId<31> Unable to cr eate new Thread....
Jane, I know of no such limit. I'm running a 1 GB buffer pool on my 4 GB TSM AIX server with no issues. The only thing to watch is that the buffer pool is considered "process" memory by AIX. So the default MaxPerm% of 80% means that AIX allows process to have priority on 1 GB with the other 3 GB given preference for files. Because in my case, process memory is 25% + whatever AIX and TSM themselves use, quite a lot of memory would be paged out to disk. So you have to adjust MaxPerm% down to allow AIX and TSM to have enough process memory to avoid that paging activity. If you understand what's going on that should be a one-time operation. Good luck. Tab Trepagnier TSM Administrator Laitram, L.L.C. "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/21/2005 05:13:54 AM: > Hi - > > In the Performance Tuning Guide this states that the 'buffer pool size may > not exceed 10% of physical memory on AIX' > > Also, Recommended values are included in a table dependent on your amount of > physical memory, but max in MB is 256 assuming you have 2048MB of memory. > > They may have something that has been updated that goes up for higher > memory?? > > Jane. > > > -Original Message- > From: Henrik Wahlstedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 July 2005 11:11 > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANRD pkthread.c(1037): ThreadId<31> Unable to > create new Thread > > Hi, > > I´m not sure if there are some upper limit on Bufpoolsize, but 1024000 seems > rather high to me... One of our p650, aix, with 16GB of ram just use a > bufpoolsize of 786432. > > What happens if you reset bufpool to it´s original value, and re-run the > backups? > > > //Henrik > > > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Nielsen, Bo > Sent: den 21 juli 2005 10:54 > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: ANRD pkthread.c(1037): ThreadId<31> Unable to create new > Thread > > Hi > > last night I have a couple of nodes, who failed with >Server Detected Error. > In TSM server activity log I found these message: > > 07/21/2005 03:28:03 ANRD pkthread.c(1037): ThreadId<31> Unable to create > new Thread. CreateThread error.Callchain: 104EAD79 outTextf()+1529 <- > 10007040 pkLogicAbort()+A30 <- 15E3D688 Unknown <- 10A7CC08 > outTextf()+5933B8 <- > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (31) Context report 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (31) Thread > SessionThread (23) is a child thread related to: 31 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) > Generating TM Context Report: (struct=tmTxnDesc) (slots=256) 07/21/2005 > 03:28:04 (23) *** no transactions found > *** > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Generating Database Transaction Table Context: > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) *** no transactions found > *** > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Generating SM Context Report: 07/21/2005 03:28:04 > (23) Session 195354: Type=Node, Id=CDKALB030 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) > Platform=WinNT, NodeId=254, Owner= 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) SessType=5, > Index=37, TermReason=0 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) RecvWaitTime=0.000 > (samples=0) 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Backup Objects ( bytes ) Inserted: 0 ( > 0.0 ) 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Backup Objects ( bytes ) Restored: 0 ( 0.0 ) > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Archive Objects ( bytes ) Inserted: 0 ( 0.0 ) > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Archive Objects ( bytes ) Retrieved: 0 ( 0.0 ) > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Last Verb ( Ping ), Last Verb State ( Sent ) > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Generating AS Vol Context Report: > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) No mounted (or mount in progress) volumes. > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Generating ssSession Context Report: > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Storage Service Sessions: > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Session 134454 --> BufConfig=None, TransBufSize=0, > SplitBuf=False, WrCount=0, WrBufIsEmpty=False, > WrBufIsFull=False, SourceRc=0, SinkRc=0, AuxCreated=Fals- e, AuxBegin=False, > AuxIsSink=False, AuxIdle=False, > AuxTerminate=False > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Leased Volumes: > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) (none) > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Excluded VolIds: > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) (none) > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Generating ssOpenSeg Context Report: > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) No storage service segments found. > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) Generating BF Copy Control Context Report: > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 (23) No global copy control blocks. > 07/21/2005 03:28:04 07/21/2005 03:28:05 (31) Thread SessionThread (24) is a > child thread related to: 31 > 07/21/2005 03:28:05 (24) Generating TM Context Report: (struct=tmTxnDesc) > (slots=256) > 07/21/2005 03:28:05 (24) *** no transactions found *** > 07/21/2005 03:28:05 (24) Failed attempt #1 to get DBV->mutex > 07/21/2005 03:28:05 (24) Failed attempt #2 to get DBV->mutex > 07/21/2005 03:28:05 (24) Generating Database Transaction Table Context: > 07/21/2005 03:28:05 (24) *** no transactions found *** > 07/21/2005 03:28:05 (24) Generating SM Context R
TSM Support for Fedora Linux?
Hi - I have a potential customer who is requesting a client for Fedora Linux. I can't seem to find a reference on any of the IBM websites that indicates support in TSM for this client. Does anyone out there know if it there is a client for it? Thanks Laura
Re: tape usage
Hello TSMer's I have a 3494 tape library that is maxed out. We have taken out the last 60 day usage tapes. We are not decreasing our big backups (Oracle DB's) from 15 versions to 7 versions. The question I ask y'all is the one they ask me. How can I tell that I have received extra tapes back from cutting the version in half? Thank You again in advance for the answer, Bill Rosette WWJD
Re: TDP's and Encryption and 5.3, Oh My....
Hi Allen, We have done this at the router level with IPSec tunnels between sites where we want to secure the data (not just backup data if you so desire). Makes it completely transparent to the user/application which is very nice. Our users have no idea its in place. The down side? CPU load on the routers, of course. So, obviously it depends on the amount data you are trying to shovel down the wire versus the capacity of the routers. Just my 2 cents! Chris -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 11:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TDP's and Encryption and 5.3, Oh My I've got lots of encryption questions headed my way too. I haven't yet found anything indicating that you can encrypt server-to-server communications, and that's something I'd be interested in. Anyone else try it? We also get pretty frequent requests about encrypting the traffic on the wire, only. So a customer who trusts our machine room, but needs to cross untrusted network, can protect their backup stream without the additional overhead and risk of key management. So far all we can offer is a VPN solution... (eugh) - Allen S. Rout
Re: TDP's and Encryption and 5.3, Oh My....
I've got lots of encryption questions headed my way too. I haven't yet found anything indicating that you can encrypt server-to-server communications, and that's something I'd be interested in. Anyone else try it? We also get pretty frequent requests about encrypting the traffic on the wire, only. So a customer who trusts our machine room, but needs to cross untrusted network, can protect their backup stream without the additional overhead and risk of key management. So far all we can offer is a VPN solution... (eugh) - Allen S. Rout
Re: Multiple Schedules for Multiple Partitions on Solaris/Domino/TDP
Thanks for the reply. Looks like I am going to need 13-schedules, 1-OS, 6-incremental, 6-weeklys (incremental and weeklys have different nodenames, dsm.opts, etc). Do you (or someone else) have an example of how to code the /etc/init.d/dsmcad scripts for multiple schedules (I am very new to Solaris) ? I did find a webpage that says I need to code an EXPORT statement to set the DSM_CONFIG variable to point to the proper DSM.OPT files (which are already defined). Do I just create 13-files (domsched1-12 + dsmcad) in /etc/init.d and each has the export statement ? Eduardo Esteban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 07/21/2005 05:56 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Multiple Schedules for Multiple Partitions on Solaris/Domino/TDP Here are two options: 1) start six schedulers each one associated with the TSM NODE for each partition. Just point them to the appropriate dsm.opt file. Then, the schedules for all partitions will kick-off. 2) use one scheduler associated with anyone of the TSM nodes. Inside the schedule invoke domdsmc for each partition using the appropiate dsm.opt file (-adsmoptfile=/partition.opt) and the appropriate notes user. Note that for each scheduler only one schedule can run a time. So if you want to run multiple domdsmc instances in parallel from a schedule, you need to run each invocation of domdsmc in the background. Eduardo "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/21/2005 11:46:14 AM: > I have a question about setting up multiple TDP backup schedules for > multiple partitions on Solaris systems. > > Here is the scenario: > > Solaris 5.9 - TSM 5.3.1.12 > 6-partitions - each running their own instance of Domino/Notes. > Each partition has 6-Domino usermail filesystems. > > Through testing, we determined that Domino is t slow to attempt to > backup each partition, in toto (takes multiple hours just to interrogate > the Domino server to determine what to backup). > > So, each partition has a script that initiates the "domdsmc_partitionname" > command, 6-times, once for each usermail directory (yes, that is 25-backup > runs per server per day, not counting weekly full backups). > > The DSM.SYS for each partition has 13-stanzas (6-daily, 6-weekly, 1-OS). > > So, I created 7-backup schedules, 1-COMMAND for each Domino partition and > 1-INCREMENTAL for the OS. I associated all of these with the base-system > TSM node. > > When I bounce the scheduler (dsmcad), the dsmsched.log only shows the > backup schedule for the first partition. I am assuming this is because it > is the next/soonest schedule. > > Once this backup schedule kicks-off, what happens with the next schedule > for the next partition ? > > Is TSM going to not run/look for the next schedule until the first backup > cycle completes or will it get the next schedule as soon as the first one > kicks off ? > > Or is there a way to run multiple schedulers and then associate the > individual schedules with each partition/node ?
Re> Support Assistant search failed
Are you connected to a network when trying the search? Looks like a "not connected to a network" error to me. ADSM-L automatic digest system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are 31 messages totalling 2887 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. log backup (3) 2. gtUpdateGroupAttr() on backup failure (2) 3. Problem with drive (7) 4. 3582 lib with TSM 5.3 and Linux (2) 5. windows sched question 6. Old tapes (4) 7. Deleting filespace (3) 8. Support Assistant search failed 9. formatted output (3) 10. Windows XP restore error(s) (2) 11. LTO3 support (2) 12. Windows XP restore error(s) !resolved! -- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:09:40 +0700 From: nghiatd Subject: log backup Hi all, When schedule backup process implement, it writes log to txt file : 06/020/2005 06:08:07 Normal File--> 1,316,507 = \\center2-bk\g$\db_tinhcuoc\BILL1_2005.tar [Sent]=20 06/20/2005 06:08:08 Normal File--> 23,936,145 = \\center2-bk\g$\db_tinhcuoc\BILL2_2005.tar [Sent] .. Is the any method to view log of manual backup process as logs above ? I only see summary log=20 Total number of objects inspected: 11=20 Total number of objects backed up:=20 Total number of bytes transferred: 1.28 MB=20 Data transfer time: 0.36 sec=20 Network data transfer rate: 3,659.22 KB/sec=20 Aggregate data transfer rate: 282.86 KB/sec Thanks a lot, Nghiatd, -- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:22:53 +0100 From: Matthew Large Subject: gtUpdateGroupAttr() on backup failure Hi, SQL TDP 5.2.1.0 on W2K3 TSM server 5.2.1 on W2K3 For the last few days an SQL box has been failing it's scheduled event - an action=incr on the C drive. At the moment the scheduled event is 'In Progress' but there is no session open, and the client doesn't seem to be doing anything like a backup. So I asked the dsmerror.log and this is what it said: 15-07-2005 18:36:49 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'INFR_DAILY_INCR' failed. Return code = 12. 16-07-2005 18:38:15 gtUpdateGroupAttr() server error 4 on update SYSTEM STATE\SYSFILES 16-07-2005 18:38:15 ANS1005E TCP/IP read error on socket = 728, errno = 10054, reason : 'An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.'. 16-07-2005 18:38:15 cuGetFSQryResp: Received rc: -50 from sessRecvVerb 16-07-2005 18:38:16 fsCheckAdd: received error from server query response 16-07-2005 18:38:16 ANS1017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure 16-07-2005 18:38:19 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'INFR_DAILY_INCR' failed. Return code = 12. 17-07-2005 18:52:13 gtUpdateGroupAttr() server error 4 on update SYSTEM STATE\SYSFILES 17-07-2005 18:52:15 ANS1304W Active object not found 18-07-2005 18:48:39 gtUpdateGroupAttr() server error 4 on update SYSTEM STATE\SYSFILES This message seems to be the cause of the problem, but there is nothing documenting this error message that I can find. So before I raise a PMR I thought I'd ask you knowledgable chaps and chapesses. Do you know what's going on? Thanks, Matthew Aviva plc Registered Office: St. Helen's, 1 Undershaft, London EC3P 3DQ Registered in England Number 02468686 www.aviva.com This message and any attachments are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or e-mail the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system. Also, if you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person. -- Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:50:57 -0400 From: "Jones, Eric J" Subject: Re: Problem with drive I did an audit on the library to see if it would recognize it again but it still comes up "UNKNOWN". I toggled the drive off-line and back on-line to see if it would come back and it still stays in an "UNKNOWN" state. The problem started Friday night when the picker had the problem. Here is the message from the activity log. --- 07/16/05 04:15:07 ANR8848W Drive RMT1 of library 3584LIB3 is inaccessible; server has begun polling drive. (PROCESS: 1429) 07/16/05 04:25:52 ANR8471E Server no longer polling drive RMT1 in library 3584LIB3 - path /dev/rmt1 will be marked off-line. (PROCE SS: 1429) 07/16/05 04:25:52 ANR8873E The path from source TSM3 to destination RMT1 (/dev/rmt1) is taken offline. (PROCESS: 1429) -- Thanks Eric -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gilbert, Guillaume Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 5:19 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Problem with drive I don't think an audit will be necessary here. The drive is "unknown" state because TSM hasm't talked to it yet. Once TSM gets a tape in there, the state will change to "loaded", and after that "empty" Guillaume Gilbert Storage Architect 514.866.8876 Office 514.866.0901 Fax 514.290.6526 BlackBerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] StorageTek Canada Inc.
Re: Error-Code: ANR1092
Halo Richard, thank you for answer. I was on the same way and had increase the value of the Maxsize by the Reclamation-Space from the value 10 to 15. Christiane Richard Sims schrieb: Christiane - See IBM site Technote 1083722. Richard Sims On Jul 21, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Christiane Kühn wrote: Hallo together We have an TSM-Server for Windows (5_3_1.3) I got the error Code: *** 2005-07-21 18:05DANRDafrclm.c(3130): ThreadId<26> Reclamation terminated for volume AZ1869L1 - unexpected result code (3). (PROCESS: 65) 2005-07-21 18:05DANRDThreadId<26> issued message from: (PROCESS: 65) 2005-07-21 18:05:(PROCESS:65) 2005-07-21 18:05:(PROCESS:65) 2005-07-21 18:05:(PROCESS:65) 2005-07-21 18:05:(PROCESS:65) 2005-07-21 18:05:(PROCESS:65) 2005-07-21 18:05:(PROCESS:65) 2005-07-21 18:05:(PROCESS:65) 2005-07-21 18:05:(PROCESS:65) 2005-07-21 18:05EANR1092ESpace reclamation is ended for volume AZ1869L1. An internal server error was detected. (PROCESS: 65) 2005-07-21 18:05DANRDThreadId<26> issued message 1092 from: (PROCESS: 65) ** Know somebody something about this error Thank you for your help. -- Institut für Informatik Christiane Kühn Tel.: 0228/73-4200 Römerstraße 164 Fax.: 0228/7360304 53117 Bonn Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SV: ANR9999D pkthread.c(1037): ThreadId<31> Unable to create new Thread....
Thanks for the help/advise. I decrease the BUFPOOLSIZE, and it helps. Regards Bo Nielsen * +45 4386 4671 Coop Norden IT * (Internt postcenter): 6244 Data & Storage Center* mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, But it takes a live one to svim upstream. - W.C. Fields. -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Neil Schofield Sendt: 21. juli 2005 15:11 Til: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Emne: Re: ANRD pkthread.c(1037): ThreadId<31> Unable to create new Thread Bo I suggest you use Perfmon to monitor your non-paged pool availability (Memory -> Pool Nonpaged Bytes). We run our servers on Windows with a BUFPOOLSIZE of 524288 (ie 131,072 pages). This allows us to run two TSM instances per Windows box. (It's an MSCS cluster, so we have to cater for the failover scenario where both instances are on the one cluster node.) We've successfully run a single instance with BUFPOOLSIZE set to 1048576. The factor that prevented us increasing BUFPOOLSIZE any further was nothing to do with physical memory, but the non-paged pool exhaustion. This occurs because every extra page of buffer pool requires a certain number of handles. If you monitor the handle count for the DSMSVC.EXE process, you'll see it reaches astronomical proportions with large BUFPOOLSIZEs. This has a knock-on effect on the non-paged pool. The relevant article is here: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg21112140 Last time I spoke to IBM support about this, they suggested that 64-bit Windows would give a larger nonpaged pool and therefore allow a larger BUFPOOLSIZE. Regards Neil Schofield Yorkshire Water Services Ltd. Visit www.yorkshirewater.com to find out about our new photography competition. YORKSHIRE WATER - WINNER OF THE UTILITY OF THE YEAR AWARD The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged. The contents are intended for recipient only and are subject to the legal notice available at http://www.keldagroup.com/email.htm Yorkshire Water Services Limited Registered Office Western House Halifax Road Bradford BD6 2SZ Registered in England and Wales No 2366682
