Re: DASD Usage - DISKTASKS

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 09:37 PM 9/4/99 -0400, you wrote:

Debbie,

Although I don't know you, from what you've written, I know that you know
the system well.  

However, with all due respect, something is wrong here.  It should have not
taken this long.  Was it running dedicated?

Al


>Martin:
>
>I have found the same thing. I ran DISKTASKS on a system  with 200 gigabytes
>of
>and 100,000 objects, and it took 26 hours to run (and it was the weekend,
>when
>no one was in).
>
>DSPOBJD is much faster for gathering disk info. Nearly two years ago, I
>wrote an
>article for the Toronto Users Group magazine, outlining some things to
>consider
>when deciding whether to use DSPOBJD or DISKTASKS. 
>
>It is kind of dated now (e.g. considers shared folders, but not IFS).
>However,
>if you're interested, I'll be glad to email you a copy.
>
>Debbie Gallagher
>Dgallagher@deloitte.ca
>********************
>Original Message
>********************
>Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 17:09:58 +0100 
>From: "McCallion, Martin" <MccalliM@Midas-Kapiti.com>
>Subject: RE: DASD USAGE UTILITY
>
>>snip>
>> QAEZDISK and RTVDSKINF . . .
>>snip>
>
>Mind you, I submitted one to run last night, having learnt about it from
>the list yesterday, and it's been running for 17 hours...
>
>Martin.
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