[comp.sys.hp] Problem with HP9000/330.

mtsu@blake.acs.washington.edu (Montana State) (02/20/89)

Has anybody seen this before??  The system is an HP9000/330 with 4 meg,
the DOS coprocessor, and the 80 meg disc.  The user did the following things.

1) logged in.
2) entered DOS.
3) stopped DOS, and did a rlogin to another machine.  When he finished and
   tried to re-enter DOS, things went all to pieces.  The load started
   to climb (reached 9.0 max), idle time was still 90% idle, Free mem
    dropped to 16kbytes free, and swap utilization climed to 75% which is
   appx. 9 meg.

It's running HP-UX 6.0.  There were no other active processes, and just
the usual daemons were running.  Below is a snapshot of monitor...


Sun Feb 19 17:44:47 1989  9000/330 HP-UX monitor - GLOBAL SYS STATUS   1 of  1

HOSTNAME: picasso                      SYSTEM BOOTED:  Sat Feb  4 17:59:09 1989
                                       /hp-ux from CS80: 0x0e0000
RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN KILOBYTES
  Physical memory:              4096   Maximum user memory:         2564
  Free memory:                    16   User memory utilization:       99%

  Swap space configured:       12321   Enabled via swapon(1m):     12321
  Currently free swap space:    3281   Swap space utilization:        73%

User CPU:  1%   LAN packets in:   17   Context switches:   11    LOAD AVERAGES
Sys CPU:   7%   LAN packets out:   0   Trap calls:          5     1 min:  5.62
Idle CPU: 91%                          System calls:       74     5 min:  4.22
Nice CPU:  0%                          Device interrupts: 113    15 min:  2.72

SWAP DEVICE   KILOBYTES                XFERS  UTIL DISC
   0x0e0000       12321                5       14% / (12MB swap)


I would've tried to get more data, but updates were taking ~1 min. and 
the user wanted his machine back, so exec reboot saved the day.  I tried
to kill the process, but ps hadn't kicked anything back after about 5 min.

While I read this group, I'm sure nobody else cares, so please send replies
to icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu or utah-gr!mts-cs!icsu6000

randy@oetl.UUCP (Randy O'Meara) (02/22/89)

In article <918@blake.acs.washington.edu> mtsu@blake.UUCP writes:
>
>Has anybody seen this before??  The system is an HP9000/330 with 4 meg,
>the DOS coprocessor, and the 80 meg disc.  The user did the following things.

[stuff deleted]

>Sun Feb 19 17:44:47 1989  9000/330 HP-UX monitor - GLOBAL SYS STATUS   1 of  1
>
>HOSTNAME: picasso                      SYSTEM BOOTED:  Sat Feb  4 17:59:09 1989

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	* Sorry for posting this, but email bounced twice.
	  What utility did you use to generate the report that
	  appeared in your posting?  I've never seen anything
	  like it on my 9000/320.

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