Slow TSM DB Performance?

2007-06-24 Thread Gerald
Ultimately i'm trying to run an import on 23 LTO tapes which is going too slow and i'm trying to determine why. When it first started for the first 16 tapes or so, I was seeing 30MB/sec+ import speed. On Friday I noticed a lot of I/O activity on hdisk0 which is where the TSM DB is located and

Re: Slow TSM DB Performance?

2007-06-24 Thread Bob Booth
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 11:31:50AM -0700, Gerald wrote: Ultimately i'm trying to run an import on 23 LTO tapes which is going too slow and i'm trying to determine why. When it first started for the first 16 tapes or so, I was seeing 30MB/sec+ import speed. On Friday I noticed a lot of I/O

Re: Slow TSM DB Performance?

2007-06-24 Thread Gerald
I don't think it's thrashing.. no pi's or po's really..2GB of ram in the system. dual power4 processors. Internal storage is 150GB SCSI drives. I believe 10k RPM. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ vmstat 5 System Configuration: lcpu=2 mem=2048MB kthr memory page faultscpu

Re: Slow TSM DB Performance?

2007-06-24 Thread Richard Sims
Gerald - You've conveyed how bad performance is in that operation, but we have no solid information on what you are doing or the configuration there, as in exactly what kind of Import, disk and I/O channel configurations, tape connection type, etc. An Import is like an intense client Backup,