NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/sys/sun/admin/5724

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From: [e-mail] (Steve Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: 690MP "pausing"
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:23:26 GMT
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Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Bob Snyder) writes:
>Is anyone else having problems with a 690MP running 4.1.2 seeming to just
>"pause"?  What will happen is the machine will seem to simply freeze up for
>about 3 or 4 seconds,  During these these few seconds, the machine appears
>to respond to nothing, not even echoing keystrokes back when typing on the
>command line of in an editor like vi.
>
>I've applied a number of patches to the system (I've put a list at the end of
>this) trying to get this to stop.
>
>There doesn't seem to be any adverse effects to the clients, but there is only
>a couple of clients attached, and we're a bit hesitant to add any more until
>we are able to resolve this.

I have noticed that on our 690MP (4.1.2) the load seems to climb
intermittantly up to 8 or 10 -- sometimes causing pauses like Bob mentioned
and other times, I don't sense any delay in what I am doing.  What is
going on here?  I do a "ps axu" and there seem to be no cpu-hog type
processes... really nothing to explain it.  The system serves as an NIS
server and NFS server but the files it serves via NFS are rarely used...

Anyone have an idea as to what it is???
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