Re: Too Much DASD

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:40 PM 5/17/97, Boothm wrote (in part):
>We ran a Reclaim spool storage command and set the  default days to two
>from the original eight.  We were astounded at the dasd we got back.  The
>machine went from 86% to 78.8%   -  a huge change.  Now though I am
>concerned that maybe we went one bridge too far.  We haven't noticed any
>bad things happening but this turned into such a major change that  I am
>suspicious.  Any comments or experiences to share?


No, no problem in shrinking the number of days...  This just controls how
long a printed and no-longer-on-an-outq spool file member hangs around.  The
only 'downside' is that the machine may have to re-create a spool file
member if there are no unused ones hanging around.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com

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