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From: weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Unattached gettys causing uncontrolled disk writing and buildup
Message-ID: <1337@novavax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 89 21:59:47 GMT
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Just so no one else has to scratch his/her head over this one.  Apollo
says don't leave gettys turned on (look at /etc/ttys) on lines which
have no device attached under SR10.1.

I wanted to make it simple for people to attach terminals whenever they
wanted but generally not be able to modify the /etc/ttys file.  So I
started running a getty on each node's tty01 line.

Today, I found my disk being written to continually, immensely slowing
the performance of my DN4500.  No processes or users claimed to be
writing to the disk like that.  Apollo support said they had seen this
before.  I disabled the getty and rebooted.  The writing stopped and
about 30 megabytes of disk space immediately reappeared.
-- 
Bob Weiner, Motorola, Inc.,   USENET:  ...!gatech!uflorida!novavax!weiner
(407) 738-2087