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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: interminttent pauses
- Message-ID: <v8c6rao@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 19:23:33 GMT
- References: <9201@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
- Sender: news@zola.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <9201@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> jsin@smogland.janet.ucla.edu (John Sin) writes:
- | We have a SGI Indigo with 48MB. Every once in a while, the machine seems
- | to pause/halt briefly. For example, while you're typing away in a vi
- | session, it would stop responding for anywhere from 1 sec upto several minutes
- | before continuing. There are no CPU intensive processes running, nor is there
- | any out-of-control processes. This machine is used by single person, and
- | he usally has a few windows open to do latex, read mail, preview
- | postscript, etc. Is there any known problem with the OS or hardware that
- | will exhibit this kind of behavior? If not, what tools/methods can I
- | employ to track down the cause? I'm mostly SunOS person and have little
- | experience with tools available for SGI machines.
- |
- | uname -a gives:
- | IRIX pegasus 4.0.5 06151813 IP12
-
- I'm not aware of any such problems. It would be interesting to
- run either osview or gr_osview and see what is happening at the
- time. Also, is it possible that files or commands are being
- accessed over NFS and you are having network problems (possibly
- including triggering some bugs in the ethernet driver)?
- --
- 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
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