crash recovery of productive db very slow

We had to shutdown a productive database with db2_kill, because it couldn't be stopped normally and had problem with a full FAILARCHPATH (After TSM server had problems, the archiving to TSM has not been successfully any more, even after TSM Server was up again: We had this problems before....)

The crash recovery takes very long. Sometimes even db2 list utilities <show details> seems to hang.

With db2pd -everything I can see the progress of the crash recovery:

Database Partition 0 -- Database PC1 -- Active -- Up 0 days 01:57:14 -- Date 05/07/2008 11:34:59

Recovery:

Recovery Status 0x00000C01

Current Log S0003363.LOG

Current LSN 061F2B330DBA

Job Type CRASH RECOVERY

Job ID 1

Job Start Time (1210145904) Wed May 7 09:38:24 2008

Job Description Crash Recovery

Invoker Type User

Total Phases 2

Current Phase 1

Progress:

Address PhaseNum Description StartTime CompletedWork TotalWork

0x000000020018E580 1 Forward Wed May 7 09:38:24 2008 786766439 bytes 1998253346 bytes

0x000000020018E670 2 Backward NotStarted 0 bytes 1998253346 bytes

So the db has now finished approx 1/3 of the bytes of the forward phase and then also have the backward phase!

In the db2diag.log there are no more entries after beginning of the crash recovery of 09:38.

We have move one logfile from the FAILARCHPATH directory (which was 100% full) to a different directory to be sure, that the slow crash recovery has nothing to do with the full FAILARCHPATH.

The log_dir directory has 20 logfiles (LOGPRIMARY+ LOGSECOND) in it (more could not be allocated there because the log_dir is sized according to the LOG-Parameters)

Parameter UTIL_HEAP_SZ = 150.000

Does anybody have an idea, why the crash recovery is so slow ?

Kind regards,

Uta