Re: my system is sluggish and I don't why?

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

Thankyou all for this thread ... it has communicated useful pieces of
information to this lurker.  I know a lot about some topics & pipe up but my
mind is a bit sluggish on comprehending this topic.

Our system tends to intermittently run sluggish, in which I usually do not
nail down the causes.  In other words we run fine most days, but by the time
it dawns on me that we had a blip in performance, the evidence as to causes
has also evaporated.

A few questions to add to the pot ... no urgency on answers.

There has been mention of disk activity as distinct from disk utilization.
I interpret this to mean
Disk Activity = how busy is the access to hard disk
Disk Utilization = how much of the disk space has been used up

Every place I have seen percent disk it has been percent of system ASP which
is around 73-77 % of our 12 Gig ... whether I look in DSPSYSSTS, WRKSYSSTS,
WRKDSKSTS they all say pretty much the same # at the same time, although it
is mildly disturbing to me that this % should fluctuate so much ... we must
have some pretty big work files.
... I had thought the only indicator of disk activity was the I/O counts like
in WRKACTJOB & WRKSYSSTS ... is there some other place that might show disk
activity as a percentage or if it is a healthy or unhealthy number?

When we upgraded to V4R5 we were prompted to start PM/400 which I thought was
a freebie from IBM, but as soon as I tried WRKSYSACT, I got the message about
this deal expiring in 70 days & could not find software key in among the V4R5
papers, so am I wrong that this is a freebie?

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)