Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!linus!linus!news!mbunix!blk From: blk@mitre.org (Brian L. Kahn) Subject: Diskless HP400 is slooooooow Message-ID: Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Nntp-Posting-Host: vanity.mitre.org Organization: The MITRE Corp. Bedford, MA Distribution: usa Date: 30 May 91 13:31:25 We have a pair of HP/Apollo 9000/400's with 8MB memory and color screens running under OS version 7.0. One of the machines is diskless, and unbelievably slow. I'm talking 90 seconds for hp-vue to come up after login. I expect that the configuration is nutty, but we haven't found anything wrong yet. We are using the configuration as delivered from HP for both hardware and software. The sales-critter insisted that 8MB is plenty for a diskless node, I questioned that first. Unfortunately, I can't figure any way to ask an HP how much swapping or paging it is doing. Is there a way to find out, or better yet a graphical Xdisplay of same? We are all used to SunOS, and flounder about in the mixed SysV*Berkeley*POSIX environment that Sys7 seems to be. Is there a common config problem that can cause this trouble? Is there a good test or two to find out? -- B< Brian Kahn blk@security.mitre.org "may the farce be with you"