Re: system is loosing disk space at extraordinary rate

Hello Neil,
No, never.

Regards, Philipp


Neil Palmer schrieb:

> By any chance had you been running regular backups using save-while-active
> ?
>
> ...Neil
>
> Philipp Rusch <Philipp.Rusch@rusch-edv.de>
> Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> 2002/03/29 14:04
> Please respond to midrange-l
>
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>         Subject:        system is loosing disk space at extraordinary rate
>
> Hello all,
> this is a strange one:
> I did a release upgrade on a V4R4 machine (a 720) to V4R5 in november last
> year.
> We were at about 50% used disk space at that time. PTF package C0198450
> was
> installed at that date as well, everything went fine.
> Since we did not do any further IPLs since then, we someday noticed that
> something
> is eating up disk space, until we reached 92 % last week.
> Searching for the culprit was at no avail, we ended every user jobs, ended
> every non-system
> job on the system, it eats space on and on. A short calculation led us to
> round about
> 300 MB (!) temporary space which is used up every day since november.
> WRKSYSSTS showed 29 GB of temp used space out of 77 GB total, this is 38 %
> of the
> whole system !
> When we scheduled an IPL to get rid of the temporary used space, I did
> endsbs *all *immed
> at first hand and suddenly all our used disk space was free again ! You
> could watch it coming
> back available when pressing F5 in wrkssysts display. I never saw this
> behaviour on an AS/400
> before. IBM support was nearly as helpless as we, we ordered some PTFs
> that might help ...
>
> Any hints anybody ?
>
> Have a nice easter weekend,
> regards from germany, Philipp Rusch
>
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