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AIX : implement specific file advisories in the posix_fadvise

The requirement is to implement at least POSIX_FADV_RANDOM. This may also include AIX-specific variants to distinctly specify random read and random write separately.
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

enhance FWAD so that it does not run out of memory for storing CDT structures

IBM Power Systems customer Bloomberg created a system dump in which was displayed the message : "There was not enough memory to copy the CDTs, Contact IBM for further support". Analysis of this dump indicated there was not enough memory pre-alloca...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Second stage of UDP receive rate improvements

Seek to attain a goal of 1 million packets per second on receive, for a single-stream of UDP multicast. The mechanism at this rate should be lossless and sustainable. Assumptions:- Full system LPAR running AIX 7.2 TL1.- POWER8: models S824 (24-way...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

AIX ProbeVue : provide expansion of _curthread and _curprocess acccesors

Request to add thread state as an accesor in the __curthread and __curproc ProbeVue objects. Additional granularity required to limit results of interval probe to data only from threads in running state.
almost 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

AIX ProbeVue : provide Vue function to convert probev_timestamp_t type to nanoseconds

ProbeVue set_date_format doesn't document a facility to timestamp with milliseconds or microseconds. The log output from certain tools must produce sub-second granularity. Providing a Vue function to convert probev_timestamp_t type to nanoseconds ...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 1 Delivered

Filesystem support in AIX 7.2 live kernel update

1430-047 The file system /mnt of type automount is not supported. We check your vfs type and as you can see from your filesystem output from your snap, those are automounts and are not set to nfs. node mounted mounted over vfs date options -------...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

Filesystem fragmentation cause slow performance

Bosch copied several files from directory A to B or C or D. In the target filesystem the data is heavily fragmented which has a negativ impact on the performance (especially TSM). Bosch opened a PMR and the recommendation from the lab was to delet...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

File size has zero byte after a crash and reboot

The client BOSCH has the problem, that after a crash and the following reboot some files have a size of only 0 bytes. It happens if the root cause for the crash is within a filesystem, but can also happen with other filesystems. Sometimes the cras...
almost 9 years ago in AIX 4 Delivered

AIX file defragmentation

AIX file fragmentation reduces the performance and the only way to recover is to backup and restore the data.Defrags command does not defragment files and is not helpful in this situation.
almost 9 years ago in AIX 3 Delivered

empty blocks copied with mklvcopy and migratepv

Empty blocks copied when using mklvcopy, migratepv, mirrorvg
almost 9 years ago in AIX 2 Delivered

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