Re: Leaky ASP

[neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx]

This has also happened on previous releases.  V3R1 (I believe) was famous
for this.  The problem then was traced to a situation where temporary
space used during backups was not freed.  Every night we ran a backup
another 40MB or so "disappeared".

...Neil





"Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
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2001/11/04 07:19
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RE: % system ASP used . . . : 99.6266
----- Original Message -----
From: Westdorp, Tom
To: 'Leif Svalgaard '
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 8:37 PM
Subject: RE: % system ASP used . . . : 99.6266


Leif,

If you are on r510 I believe it is not as funny as you think.

Four times on two different boxes (an 820 and a 720) we had the storage
used run away into the 95+% range.  An IPL dropped it back to 60% or so.
There were ptf's issued for this, twice, (sorry I'm just a pgmr not the
admin guy, so no numbers) that got this to slow to ALMOST a standstill.  I
still see a symptom, just like you're seeing, on the 720 (the dev system,
only one which ever slows down).  I think IBM's stemmed the leak from a
torrent to a trickle, but I believe it is still leaking.  Percentage will
vary with total storage volume, but it still creeps up and gets reset on
IPL.

-----Original Message-----
From: Leif Svalgaard
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Sent: 11/3/01 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: % system ASP used . . . : 99.6266

From: <barsa@barsaconsulting.com>
> GO CLEANUP
> See my COMMON session. ABC's of AS/400 System Management

did cleanup, hardly made a dent.
Windoze may have "memory leaks", but it seems that the AS/400
develops "ASP-leaks"   :-)