Re: wrkdsksts, disk utilization not balanced out

["Daniel Ang" <igsang@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pete:

I was told that running straspbal *usage will get the disk usage statistic
from trcaspbal and spread the data/usage evenly, and if straspbal is not run
beforehand it will get the last available statistic which would not be
accurate.

Daniel

On 3/13/07, Pete Massiello <pmassiello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I usually just run STRASPBAL *CAPACITY and never run the TRCASPBAL at all.
> It always balances the disks 100% perfectly.  I can't see why you would
> need to run TRCASPBAL for capacity, but I could for *USAGE.
>
> Pete
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: wrkdsksts, disk utilization not balanced out
> From:    "Daniel Ang" <igsang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:    Tue, March 13, 2007 5:25 am
> To:      Midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > Hello Guys,
> >
> > I've a client with i520, whose wrkdsksts shows different disk capacity
> > usage
> > for different disk. i know i can balance it out using TRCASPBAL and
> follow
> > by STRASPBAL *usage.
> >
> > 1) I would like to know what is the normal causes of disk imbalance? the
> > system has not IPL since 3 months. and cannot afford any IPL.
> > 2) how long do i need to tun trcaspbal? is it resource hungry? will it
> > slow
> > down my production services?
> >
> > thanks in advance
> >
> > regards,
> > igsang
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