Performance issue

Backup on one little 270 has been running for an extremely inordinate
amount of time. This is a test 270, one I could IPL during the middle of
the day and not one person would notice. It's taking longer to backup
than our biggest lpar on our 570. Using the same tape drive and
connection technology. (LTO3 TS3310)

So my initial hypothesis is that some performance issue is bogging it
down.

Performance is not my bailiwick. Performance is normally handled by
throwing a big chunk of money at it until it runs right. My boss (Chris)
is at a meeting from 8 to 3 with our BP, who is probably hoping to help
him handle performance issues on our other equipment. Don't know how the
meeting is going, it is raining ;-)

Some information that may, or may not, be significant:
WRKSBSJOB SBS(QBATCH)
Job User Type -----Status----- Function
BACKDTALIB MASTER BATCH ACTIVE PGM-BACKDTALIB
GDIQBATCHM MASTER AUTO ACTIVE DLY-900
OPIFSGET ROB BATCH ACTIVE CMD-RTVDIRINF
QFFFFFFD4 CHRIS BATCH ACTIVE PGM-QYPSSTRT
QFFFFFFD4 CHRIS BATCH ACTIVE PGM-QYPSSTRT
QFFFFFFD4 CHRIS BATCH ACTIVE PGM-QYPSSTRT
QFFFFFFD4 CHRIS BATCH ACTIVE PGM-QYPSSTRT

What is QFFFFFFD4?

WRKSYSACT
Overall DB CPU util . . . : .0
Overall CPU util . . . . : 5.8


Total Total DB
Job or CPU Sync Async CPU
Task User Number Thread Pty Util I/O I/O Util
QYPSJSVR QYPSJSVR 515260 0006096E 16 .8 140 4 .0
QYPSJSVR QYPSJSVR 515260 0000000B 0 .3 125 0 .0
RMTMSAFETA 0 .3 0 0 .0
QZRCSRVS QUSER 543212 000001B8 20 .3 3 7 .0
QFFFFFFD4 CHRIS 541585 0000041B 0 .2 22 0 .0
QZRCSRVS QUSER 543256 00000018 20 .2 45 39 .0
QFFFFFFD4 CHRIS 542533 00000213 56 .2 100 0 .0
...
With frequent spikes
Total Total DB
Job or CPU Sync Async CPU
Task User Number Thread Pty Util I/O I/O Util
QYPSJSVR QYPSJSVR 515260 0005BC02 16 85.2 3 0 .0
...
WRKDSKSTS
Size % I/O Request Read Write Read Write %
Unit Type (M) Used Rqs Size (K) Rqs Rqs (K) (K) Busy
1 6719 26373 76.1 51.2 47.3 36.6 14.5 63.0 8.0 60
2 6719 26373 75.7 68.3 52.6 50.0 18.3 68.2 9.9 100
3 6719 26373 75.7 57.0 48.0 40.8 16.2 65.2 4.8 80
4 6719 26373 75.7 50.4 45.8 35.0 15.4 61.5 10.2 60
5 6719 35165 76.7 60.0 62.2 39.5 20.4 84.6 18.8 40

WRKSYSSTS
% CPU used . . . . . . . : 6.7 System ASP . . . . . . . : 140.6
G
% DB capability . . . . : .0 % system ASP used . . . :
76.0663
Elapsed time . . . . . . : 00:00:01 Total aux stg . . . . . : 140.6
G
Jobs in system . . . . . : 2683 Current unprotect used . : 11621
M
% perm addresses . . . . : .027 Maximum unprotect . . . : 19288
M
% temp addresses . . . . : .137

Sys Pool Reserved Max ----DB----- --Non-DB--- Act- Wait-
Act-
Pool Size M Size M Act Fault Pages Fault Pages Wait Inel
Inel
1 179.09 94.70 +++++ .0 .0 21.3 21.3 75.4 .0
.0
2 1276.29 3.33 303 .0 .0 69.7 331.8 1169 .0
.0
3 15.16 1.30 19 5.0 43.9 101.8 781.2 2564 .0
.0
4 30.32 .00 8 .0 .0 5.6 5.6 37.7 .0
.0
5 15.16 .00 5 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0
.0


Searched ptf cover letters for V5R4 for QYPSJSVR and we have all three
listed.

WRKPTFGRP
PTF Group Level
SF99540 7107
SF99539 49
SF99504 11
SF99348 2
SF99347 9
SF99323 11
SF99321 1
SF99318 7
SF99317 7
SF99316 3
SF99315 6
SF99312 15
SF99311 8
SF99309 8
SF99308 8
SF99306 3
SF99304 3
SF99296 5
SF99291 8
SF99186 13
SF99143 1
SF99114 9

Rob Berendt