RE: Disk space and performance

I guess I can't give you an exact number where disk
usage begins to affect performance, but I can tell you
that the more unused disk that is available, the
better your performance will be.  An occasional IPL is
also performance booster.
 
--- "Holliday, Gary" <Gary.Holliday@smedleys.co.uk>
wrote:
> > I was wondering if this still holds true today. My
> boss says that when you
> 
> > let the as400 use up more than 80% of you disk
> performance will degrade.
> 
> When we were planning our recent OS/400 upgrade the
> AS/400 technical guy
> said that performance degrades above 80%
> utilisation. We got ours down to
> 75% before the upgrade to reduce the time our box
> was down.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gary Holliday
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