Thanks for the heads up. We don't do dedup so that should not be an issue for us. Some of our databases are way bigger than yours (>300GB). We will keep an eye out for high DB activity.
------------- Zoltan Forray TSM Software & Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services [email protected] - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html On Oct 30, 2013 2:36 PM, "Colwell, William F." <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Zoltan, > > when I went to 6.3.4.0 from 6.3.somewhere-lower, an index reorg started in > all my servers. > The reorg was of a big table involved in dedup. It caused the active log > to fill up and all the servers crashed more than once. > > I opened a pmr; IBM was aware of the problem, see > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC91190 > > To fix it, I had to max out the active log at 128GB, and stop all the > other big > log generators like expiration, reclaim, migration, id dup. Then the > reorg had > enough log to finish. > > When it was all done, there was a side benefit. These indexes had gotten > really big. > After the reorg there was a lot of freespace in the db. For example - > > tsm: xxxx>q db f=d > > Database Name: TSMDB1 > ... > Total Pages: 49,053,700 > Usable Pages: 49,053,500 > Used Pages: 22,947,116 > Free Pages: 26,106,384 > > Good luck! > > Bill Colwell > Draper Lab > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Zoltan Forray > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: V6.2.5 to V6.3.4.200 Linux Server Upgrade > > Just checking for any issues/gotchas in performing these upgrades. I want > to get all my servers up to the latest. > > From what I found in books online, this should be a simple 1-upload and > install base 6.3.4 (from Passport), 2-install 6.3.4.200 patch, > 3-re-activate licenses. None of the mess of upgrading from 6.1 to 6.3. > Of course, I will backup the DB, devconfig, volhist. > > Am I missing anything? Anyone else do this on Linux? Any war-stories? > > -- > *Zoltan Forray* > TSM Software & Hardware Administrator > Virginia Commonwealth University > UCC/Office of Technology Services > [email protected] - 804-828-4807 > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will > never use email to request that you reply with your password, social > security number or confidential personal information. For more details > visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html >
