I've got two times during the day when the WP track utilization hits 50% for over an hour on my DMX3. I'm concerned about the 50% threshold because at that point my clones stop copying and I'm told the frame makes a system wide priority change to focus on de staging those tracks a little more. I looked at what devices are using the most tracks at that time and it looks like I've got two culprits.

One is a little 46GB oracle database. The four 16.86GB devices assigned to them were using a total of 290,000 WP at peak time. I tried to fix it by throwing more spindles at them and restriped the database over 8 devices. Now during peak time the devices are using 405,000 WP. I increased the throughput the database was doing by 20% so I'm getting more work done but now that little 46GB database is using 25% of my WP tracks on an array with 200TB of usable disk. Is that normal? Any suggestions on what to do?

The other is some timefinder clone targets I use for backup I've been told I can use symqos to lower the priority on the targets but after looking at the manpage and listing the current copy pace I don't really know what I'm looking at. Anyone familiar with symqos that can give me an idea of what I'm looking at / what I should look at doing?

Thanks,
Christian