The answer to your question is yes. I forgot my machine has 4 processors in it.
Your CPU utilization profile does not match mine so, I do not know if I can help. We have a P660-6H1 identically configured, except I use Shark Disk and Magstar tape using FC and the Ethernet is Gigabit. The only time I see high CPU utlization is during backups coming down the ethernet. At about 70MB/sec it pegs the system. A copy of a diskpool to tape or tape to tape takes about 3% of the system. We currently have 12 FC drives on the systems and have never seen it over 35% utlization during no backups coming in, but CPU usage is linear on the arrival of IP packets. Our disk pool is about 512GB we copy about 7TB a day, because we create an onsite and offsite copy. We backup about 850GB a day from around 150 clients (AIX, NT, W2K, SGI, Solaris Clients). We have a lot of data that will be moved to SAN tape soon that will relieve the Gigabit. We are adding 2 more FC cards (will be 6 then for tape coping). Do not know what to say. I am getting about twice the amount through the system with the same configuration except. GIGABIT and FC disk and tape. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Pilgram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 6:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Performance Hi all, a question about increasing the performance of my TSM-Server: TSM-Server : IBM H80 ( 2-way RS64III-450MHz-processor, 2GB memory ), AIX 4.3.3 , TSM 4.1.4 I see with the monitor-tool that my server has over a longer period a cpu-utilization of more than 80%. This server only handles TSM, no other task. But there is a lot of data-transfer from backup-pools to copy-pools and from disk-pool to tape-pool (150 GB disk-pool, data-transfer to copy-pool about 800 GB per day). I have some money left for increasing the performance : Does TSM support and use a second processor ? Thanks for help Chris
