I suspect your problem is more of a disk porblem. Whether actual disks you are using or the arrangement.
Expire inventory is faster the faster you get your disks and also check "q db f=d" and see if cache Hit Pct is around 99%. If it is lower, then increase the size of Buffer Pool to get cache hit pct up and speed up Expire. David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax: 321.434.5509 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/27/05 9:07 AM >>> I have a question to the group that I hope I can get some answer or pointed to some doc's on. I have to justify buying an AIX 550 over a AIX 520. My argument is, that our Database backups and expire inventories are running longer than they should on our 1 G two cpu 520 running 5.3 AIX. The expire inventory runs for at least 5 to 6 hours and usually has about 700000 items. Our disk for the DB are separate channels raw disk on an I/o chassis. My belief is that those two processes are CPU intensive.. Am I correct? Our DB is about 50 GB. We backup about 230 nodes and about 1.3 TB a night. We are running TSM 5.2.4. Office: 281-871-5502 | Mobile: 713-471-1844 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ############################################################## This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ##############################################################
