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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: vhand is bringing my R4K Indigo to its knees!
- Message-ID: <ul2uirg@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 04:14:28 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.003815.18504@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1993Jan9.003815.18504@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
-
- | Our newly upgraded R4K Indigo is SLOWER than our 4D/50 GT :-P
-
- Perhaps you are trying to run just a few more/larger apps ;)
-
- | Top gives the following:
- |
- | IRIX lucy 4.0.5F 08280217 IP20 Load[12.39,10.88,8.53] 18:23:58 56 procs
- | user pid pgrp %cpu proc pri size rss time command
- | root 2 0 69.5 0 0 0 0 7:46 vhand
- | lisa 24284 22243 4.6 * 105 234 17 0:46 xball
- | root 28500 28500 3.4 * +65 98 70 0:01 top
- | root 255 255 2.8 * 20 1629 849 1:05 Xsgi
- | root 3 0 2.6 * 20 0 0 0:08 bdflush
- | root 132 132 2.0 * 20 91 45 2:11 rpc.lockd
- | root 95 0 1.6 * 26 62 13 0:07 ypserv
- | lisa 22250 22243 1.4 * 29 2185 1850 0:38 ksh
- | root 83 0 1.4 * 20 45 22 0:02 portmap
- | sbernst 19407 19407 1.0 * 29 4353 3072 1:47 ksh
- | root 28513 135 0.8 * 20 76 32 0:00 inetd
- | sbernst 28532 28532 0.8 * 10 52 3 0:00 playaifc
- | sbernst 19835 19835 0.8 * 29 4263 2907 1:37 ksh
- ...
- | Now what did I screw up?
-
- Well, it looks like you are running far more jobs than you have
- memory for, so you are doing a lot of paging.
-
- Something is *seriously* wrong with your ksh processes. How could
- you possibly have ksh's with 3000 pages (12 MB) resident ?!?!?
-
- | Kinda embarassing to have it running so slow. Also I got the following
- | message in the SYSLOG:
- |
- | Jan 7 22:52:32 lucy unix: WARNING: Process [ksh] pid 12308 killed due to insufficient memory/swap.
-
- This tends to confirm that you are way short on memory. You can increase
- swap to avoid this (on another disk, or re-partition the system disk
- after backing it up, and then reinstall it), but that will just keep
- jobs from getting killed, based on the above info, you will still
- spend way to much time paging/swapping.
-
- | and osview shows:
-
- Not too helpful for a single snapshot, although it does indicate that you
- are short of memory for the jobs you are running.
-
- | P.S. The cute "R4000" medalion that comes with the upgrade kit is
- | very niffty...I put it on the lower right front cooling vents
- | like the directions said...kinda' reminds me of the grill medalions
- | on our old (1982) Mercedes TD300 diesel wagon :-)
-
- Yes, it is a bit funky.
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
-