Re: iSeries Capacity

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx>]

Hell, I've had clients with DASD over 90% for a long time that were too 
damn cheap to upgrade.

It all depends on your applications/systems and transient DASD needs.

From a performance standpoint, you start seeing degradation from about 72% 
on...

Don in DC



At 02:56 PM 11/16/2006 -0500, you wrote:
> Quick question.
>
> We have always been told that when an AS400's DASD exceeds over 90% used,
> it is critical and can crash.  I can understand this on a small system
> where 10% free of a 500 GB system is only 50 GB.
>
> Is this still the case when you have a 5 TB system or is critical really
> toward 98-99% used?  What is the deciding factor?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
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