how is memoryefficient diskcachemethod supposed to work

2013-10-14 Thread Hans Christian Riksheim
We have a memory starved Windows 2003 server and incremental fails with ANS1030E The operating system refused a TSM request for memory allocation. So we try memoryefficient diskcachemethod. What we see is that dsmc reports diskcachemethod is in use for all filesystems. We also see that the

Re: how is memoryefficient diskcachemethod supposed to work

2013-10-14 Thread Zoltan Forray
Disk space issues where the diskcache is being stored? Also, did you try just the memoryefficient without diskcache? I seem to recall a similar situation where diskcache caused similar problems while non-diskcache worked. The book says: [image: Windows operating systems] Use

Re: how is memoryefficient diskcachemethod supposed to work

2013-10-14 Thread Paul Zarnowski
If I'm not mistaken (and I very well may be!), the diskcachemethod works on a directory by directory basis. If you have a lot of objects in one flat directory (without subdirectories), it may not help that much. Alternatively, if your volume is spread well (deeply) across lots of directories,

Re: how is memoryefficient diskcachemethod supposed to work

2013-10-14 Thread Prather, Wanda
-incrbydate on the weekend? W ---Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 11:17 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] how is memoryefficient diskcachemethod supposed to work If I'm

Re: how is memoryefficient diskcachemethod supposed to work

2013-10-14 Thread Huebner, Andy
Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 12:33 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] how is memoryefficient diskcachemethod supposed to work If someone has put RESOURCEUTILIZATION in the dsm.opt, remove it or specify 2, so that the client isn't trying to do multiple filesystems

Re: how is memoryefficient diskcachemethod supposed to work

2013-10-14 Thread Richard Rhodes
We were able to get to a 64bit OS during an upgrade that made all of the memory problems go away. This has been our experience also. Not completely, but mostly, and especially if it has lots of memory. It's difficult to convince many people that the biggest and hardest hitting application on