Set the MAXNUMMP to the number of drives you are willing to have this node monopolize. If you don't care that this node could grab all of the drives in your library and leave everything else out in the cold, knock yourself out. If you want to force reasonability on your DBA's, set it to a lower number and make sure they know what their limits are. Of course, this assumes that there is a real good reason for sending all your data straight to tape rather than using a diskpool. Steve Schaub Systems Engineer, WNI BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee 423-535-6574 (desk) 423-785-7347 (cell)
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anker Lerret Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 4:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] MAXNUMMP > Is it possible that there are two or more sessions running for the TDP client simultaneously? Yes, absolutely. The Oracle DBAs have observed that this happens most frequently when there's media wait, in which case multiple log backups could be running simultaneously. How do others handle this? Does it make sense to set MAXNUMMP to the number of drives...or even higher? I remember being very unhappy when I set the value of MAXNUMMP to the number of drives, but I can't remember what happened. Maybe I was running into some other problem. Thanks again for all the ideas, anker Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm
