What I believe you are looking at here is not directory fragmentation (which can happen) but rather normal disk fragmentation.

Your files, ARCHIVE for instance have too many (234) extents.  But is 234 extents too many?  Maybe or maybe not.  WE have had files with thousands of extents.  That is when it may require action.

From what I see, you may or may not have a problem.  A few hundred extents are not a big deal.  But when you have to access the data often and performance is a consideration it is better to not have them fragmented across many extents.

The files in CCC are most likely for SpoolMate.  But other files on your system may be more important to performance.  

I am curious about what you mean by qlength delay.  Are you seeing high disk queuing in GLANCE or SOS (MetaView)?

Since you have MPEX, I wonder what the output from the following command would look like:

   LISTF @[log in to unmask]@(ACCDATE>TODAY-2 and NUMEXTENTS > 1000) ,2 

If 1000 shows no files, try 500.


Mark Ranft
Pro 3K


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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stanfield, Randy (Carrollton, TX)
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Subject: [HP3000-L] Directory Fragmentation

Does anyone know if purging and restoring a Directory compacts the directory file?

I have some large directories and trying to see if the fragmentations of the Directory file is what could be causing a qlength delay.

Sorry for all the data. Just thought it was needed to understand the issue..
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