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From: doug@genmri.UUCP (Doug Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xperfmon woes: "Disk init info not in namelist"
Message-ID: <9006051756.AA26911@genmri.sane.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 90 17:56:15 GMT
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We're having trouble running xperfmon on our Sun SPARCstation 1s.  (I
tried contacting the author of xperfmon, Thomas A. Bagli
[tom@meepmeep.pcs.com], to no avail).

When we try to invoke xperfmon, we get the message "vmstat: Disk init
info not in namelist".  After a little tracking, it appears this is
occurring because the symbol _mbdinit is not present in the kernel on
our Sun 4c's (but IS present on our Sun 4/280, where xperfmon runs
without incident). The symbol _fdinit IS present on the SPARCstations
(and not on the 4/280), but I'm not enough of a kernel hacker to know
if the two symbols (_mbdinit and _fdinit) are related.

Can anyone help us?  We're using the MIT R4 vanilla server (patched
through fix-11) on Sun SPARCstation 1s running SunOS 4.0.3c.  We're
all diskful clients (i.e. root and swap only on a local SCSI,
everything else via an NFS server), and we're using the xperfmon that
came on the R4 tape.

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                                --- Douglas H. Becker
                                    Software Engineer, GE NMR Instruments
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                                    doug@nmri.GE.COM