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From: rtaylor@tron.UUCP (Randy Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: DN10000 problems
Message-ID: <687@tron.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 91 18:21:38 GMT
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Reply-To: rtaylor@tron.bwi.wec.com.UMD.EDU (Randy Taylor)
Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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Mike -

I tested for the disk access problem this way :

 1) pst - to check for any CPU-intensive stuff like simulations
          and whatnot. 
          
 2) list a dir on any DN10k tree after verifying that nothing other
    than O.S. processes were running.


Granted, this is not a very technical solution, but when the problems
arise, a simple listing of a directory will show it up. Normally, the DN10k
is *very* fast, but when it slows down, it runs at the speed of a dying
DN300 - no that is *not* an exaggeration !

By the way, I upgraded the DN10k to 10.3.p a couple of weeks ago and I
haven't seen any problems (yet). :-)

Randy Taylor
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