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- From: helen@pulua.hcc.hawaii.edu (Helen Rapozo)
- Subject: Re: system tuning help request
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.190702.12124@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Organization: Honolulu Community College
- References: <1992Nov5.005140.21238@npal.rn.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:07:02 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In article <1992Nov5.005140.21238@npal.rn.com> sbrant@npal.rn.com writes:
- >anyway, I was wondering if anyone could offer some expert guidenance.
- >
- >Running VMS 5.4-3 and using vi for editor. Problem:
- >
- >with no other jobs running, can be typing along and all of a sudden,
- >everything come to a halt. No chars on screen. Wait 5 secs and all
- >starts up again and chars on screen are printed catching up with those
- >typed while on hold. This is very strange and getting quite annoying.
- >
- >It is like the system is going off to do some job that takes everything
- >I have for about 5 secs, then comes back to me.
- >
- >Nothing I have found sets this off. It will occur when typing a line
- >and I can type several line, or sometimes several words and wham.
- >
- >Watching the system on a second port with MON CLU while in vi on first
- >port show only about 10% CPU, 15% mem, 1% disk, and 0 Locks. And not
- >much changes even when the problem hits on the other port.
- >
- >The 'hold time' seems to be constant, always about 5 secs, then it comes
- >back.
- >
- >I have autogened the system several times and have also tweeked several
- >items in modparams based on input from several other sys mans to 'improve'
- >system performance. System performance does not seem to improve much
- >no matter what I have done.
- >
- >Again, running VMS5.4-3 on 16 meg ram, MVII.
- ************
- By any chance is this system connected to an Ethernet network and
- the terminals that freeze are connected to terminal servers?
-
- If so the problem might be network related and the freeze might
- be due to network collisions caused by something in the network.
-
- >
- >any suggestions or ideas are most welcomed. If there is interest in
- >system tuning, I will be most happy to summ up all e-mail and post as
- >a FAQ. or can add it here as an addition to the listserver for mail access.
-
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