Re: How to locate immediate spikes in Disk Usage

On Thursday 17 June 2004 12:38, Mike Berman wrote:
> A few times now, I have noticed that the system disk usage will jump
> from 5% ini a matter of a an hour or 2. I check fairly often during the
> day. Is there a way to immediatly pinpoint what has happened? Once it
> turned out to be a restore of a large file that someone cancelled in
> the middle. The space is already allocated however. It was returned
> either during a disk report that I ran or by the IPL. It has happened
> again, but in this case, I did restore a library, but it was not 5 %
> for sure, and I did not cancel, yet this is a similar activity. Any
> ideas and help would be greatly appreciated. Mike

Hi Mike

I wrote a small background monitor routine to check on overall disk 
utilisation, based on regular snapshots, and also checks on any job using 
over a specified amount of temporary storage. Details & download from 
http://www.dbg400.net/extras.html#dasdmon It won't pinpoint a specific 
job (unless it's temp storage that trigger it) but at least you'll get an 
early warning.

Regards, Martin
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