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  3. February 2004

Re: Disk Space Question

make sure the cleanup jobs are running and not disabled.
See GO  CLEANUP (this is normally secured, not every profile
can see the maint option). It has options to purge
QHST* files system journals, msg queues, etc
jim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne McAlpine" <wmcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: Disk Space Question


> With almost 65,000 jobs in the system as displayed on the WRKSYSSTS
> screen, I suspect your space problem is the result of not clearing your
> job logs or QHST files.  Do a WRKOUTQ command and see if you have an out
> put queue with thousands of joblogs on it.  Also try a WRKF QHST* nd see
> how many history logs are on the system.
>
>
> Chuck Lewis wrote:
> > Jeff,
> >
> > Not sure what 3rd party apps you are running or if it is in-house stuff,
but
> > check files for deleted records. I battled a similar situation to yours
for
> > a good chunk of last year until we replaced a 620 46GB disk with an 810
with
> > 400GB :-)
> >
> > We had several 3rd party folks files taking up an INCREDIBLE about of
disk
> > because of deleted records. One package has a routine to run to check
this
> > and here is what I get for the top offenders:
> >
> > Total      Deleted
> > Records    Records
> >
> > 3142663    3142285
> > 1553379    1527938
> > 1681028    1522245
> >  955358     954849
> > 2198730     598058
> >  533600     461321
> >  334776     324875
> >  258668     253397
> >  245023     244598
> >  253536     233711
> >  724588     233367
> >  183033     179660
> >  671371     148970
> >  148236     142078
> >
> > and this adds up to 1.3GB of deleted records - on the 620 that was a BIG
> > chunk !
> >
> > Another package was a fax app and they had a reorg that you could run
> > against that that gave back a lot of space.
> >
> > Also check that all PTF's are applied perm, etc.
> >
> > Good luck. Any upgrades in the future ?
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > jeff.glenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:08 PM
> > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Disk Space Question
> >
> > What cleanup can I run, if anything, that will mimic what's happening
> > during IPL? We're IPLing to reclaim disk space. The IPL a couple of
weeks
> > ago dropped usage from 88% to 80%. The IPL before that produced similar
> > results. From what I've read in the archives the IPL shouldn't really be
> > doing any extra cleanup, but the results say otherwise. It is running
V4R4.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any information.
> > Jeff
> >
> > WRKSYSSTS
> > % CPU used . . . . . . :        .1  System ASP . . . . . . :   580.5 G
> > Elapsed time . . . . . :  00:00:01  % system ASP used  . . :   87.7792
> > Jobs in system . . . . :     64877  Total aux stg  . . . . :   580.5 G
> > % perm addresses . . . :      .114  Current unprotect used :   32965 M
> > % temp addresses . . . :     1.374  Maximum unprotect  . . :   33424 M
> >
> > Cleanup is running every night with these options:
> > Number of days to keep:
> >   User messages  . . . . . . . .   7
> >   System and workstation msgs  .   3
> >   Job logs and system output . .   7
> >   System journals and logs . . .   7
> >   Office calendar items  . . . .   1
> >
> >>From PRTDSKINF for *SYS:
> >                                            % of       Size in
> > Description                                Disk   1,000,000 bytes
> > User libraries                            75.54        438525.59
> > User directories                            .18          1038.11
> > Folders and documents                       .04           206.37
> > QSYS                                        .54          3163.29
> > Other IBM libraries                        3.70         21462.04
> > Licensed Internal Code                     1.05          6076.57
> > Temporary space                            5.22         30276.42
> > Unused space                              12.91         74961.51
> > Internal objects                            .71          4117.47
> > Objects not in a library                    .07           424.33
> > TOTAL                                     99.96        580251.70
> >
> > System Information
> > History files                                .05           297.0
> > Journal receivers                            .01            40.8
> > User profiles                                .04           223.0
> > Configuration information                    .00            27.5
> > System help (QHLPSYS)                        .01            34.2
> > Calendars                                    .00              .9
> > System directories                           .00             3.5
> > Document files                               .00             3.5
> > OfficeVision/400 items reported:      Enrollment
> > .00              .0
> > Mail files                                   .00              .0
> > Text search                                  .00              .0
> > Personal directories                         .00              .0
> > Licensed Internal Code:
> > LIC and tables                               .21          1226.6
> > Dump space                                   .78          4550.4
> > Error logs                                   .00            10.0
> > Trace tables                                 .02           131.0
> > VLIC logs                                    .01            54.5
> > VLIC control blocks                          .02           103.8
> >
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