Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!tiamat!quintro!kts From: kts@quintro.uucp (Kenneth T. Smelcer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: DON'T PUT SR10.3 ON DN2500 !!!! Message-ID: <1991Jan28.172841.9547@quintro.uucp> Date: 28 Jan 91 17:28:41 GMT References: <1991Jan25.160628.10897@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1991Jan26.181425.21685@quintro.uucp> Organization: none Lines: 32 In article hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes: >In article <1991Jan26.181425.21685@quintro.uucp> kts@quintro.uucp (Kenneth T. Smelcer) writes: > > In article <1991Jan25.160628.10897@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) writes: >>>There is a severe bug in SR10.3 on DN2500's (only DN2500's according to the >>>Hotline) - the system clock goes crazy, gaining 1-10 minutes for every >>>minute of real time, with the gains being worse the heavier the load >>>is on the system. >> >> Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I've been running SR10.3 >> on my DN2500 (16MB, 200M disk) for about three weeks with very few >> problems. The system clock is fairly stable (it loses about 8 seconds >> a day), and X windows works fine. > >We have seen problems similar to those described by Mike. The most >reproducible way to provoke this behaviour is as follows: Someone >logged in on a node other than the 2500 starts compiling a big file in >a directory which is on the 2500. [...] I think this is why I haven't had any problems with my DN2500. This node has had some sporatic disk time-out errors, so we haven't loaded anything on it except the OS. It sounds like the problems are obvious only when there's heavy usage of the 2500's local disk. BTW, thanks to Mike for letting us know about this MAJOR problem. I wish HP/Apollo would let people know about problems like these (at least people who are register DN2500 owners.) -- --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- Ken Smelcer Glenayre Corp. quintro!kts@lll-winken Quincy, IL tiamat!quintro!kts@uunet