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Conference msgaxp::optical

Title:Optical Products
Moderator:TAPE::SENEKER
Created:Wed May 04 1988
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:841
Total number of notes:3218

794.0. "Every 20 minutes, 'inventory' ???" by EVTAI1::9dhcp167.evt.DEC.COM::Bachelet () Wed Feb 26 1997 15:50

		Hello,

	I've a customer with a (144 slots - 4 drives) jukebox, under
	OSMS V3.3 OpenVMS VAX V6.1 (this is an installation of OSMS).

	He uses only 176 volumes (88 slots).
	He mounts about 107 volumes.
	JBUTIL show parameter gives:	min swap interval 5
					I/O rate seed	  0.

	Every 20 minutes, about, with no system activity on the JBAx: 	
	drives, the jukebox makes an "inventory" of the slots.
	(There're no messages "mount verification in progress" or
	anything else...)

	I'd like to know if it's a normal behavior or not???

	Thanks. Patrick.

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794.1look for something touching all disksTAPE::SENEKERHead banging causes brain mushWed Feb 26 1997 20:4011
    Can you give us any more information?  Is this a standalone node
    or a cluster member?  Are the disks mounted locally or /cluster?
    
    Is some other "disk" product or VMS feature running every twenty
    minutes that needs to "get some information" from each disk.
    
    No known bugs, but I remember something in the past like this were
    a performance monitoring tool was touching each disk causing the
    jukebox to act as you describe.
    
    Rob
794.2Good idea.PADKOA::BACHELETFri Feb 28 1997 13:479
	We've checked to-day, with the customer, and we think that a
process "control master" of diskkeeper can be the reason: we have some
JBA traces in its log files.

	The customer'll speak monday morning with the support of this
product, and we'll have the feedback after that.

	Thanks.