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TSM Storage agent performance

Guys,

I have TSM Lanfree on a 5220, Being an AIX Admin I'm looking for help on Solaris.

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The problem is that although the 'root' owned 'dsmsta quiet' process is apparently using 27 software threads they never add up to more than 1/64th of the available CPU capability (apparently 1 hardware thread). Clearly limited like that the Sytorage agent is not going to be an effective datamover process. I cannot find anything in TSM to influence this. So is there something I need to get set or changed in the OS settings to free me of this limitation.

THanks guys.

You can reach me at the_sunburned_guy@a_nice_beach_in_Hawaii.surfin {I wish}

SteveC.

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pmdasamba

PMDASAMBA(1)						       Performance Co-Pilot						      PMDASAMBA(1)

NAME

       pmdasamba - Samba performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)

DESCRIPTION

       pmdasamba is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports metric values from Samba, a Windows SMB/CIFS server for UNIX.

       In order for values to be made available by this PMDA, Samba must have been built with profiling support (WITH_PROFILE in "smbd -b"
       output).  This PMDA dynamically enumerates much of its metric hierarchy, based on the contents of "smbstatus --profile".

       When the agent is installed (see below), the Install script will attempt to enable Samba statistics gathering, using "smbcontrol
       --profile".

INSTALLATION

       If you want access to the names and values for the samba performance metrics, do the following as root:

	       # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/samba
	       # ./Install

       If you want to undo the installation, do the following as root:

	       # cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/samba
	       # ./Remove

       pmdasamba is launched by pmcd(1) and should never be executed directly.	The Install and Remove scripts notify pmcd(1) when the agent is
       installed or removed.

FILES

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/samba/Install
	   installation script for the pmdasamba agent

       $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/samba/Remove
	   undo installation script for the pmdasamba agent

       $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/samba.log
	   default log file for error messages from pmdasamba

SEE ALSO

       pmcd(1), smbd(1) and samba(7).

3.8.10							       Performance Co-Pilot						      PMDASAMBA(1)

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