thorsen@issun3.stc.nl (Einar C. Thorsen) (01/18/91)
I have a SPARCstation 1GX with 16MB RAM and one 669MB External Storage Module running SunOS 4.1 and Openwindows 2.0 with mwm. Why on earth does it take (sometimes more than) 10 seconds to get input-focus to another window? The disk is almost overheating trying to cope. It seems like the system needs to get the window manager (mwm) from disk before something can happen, but something must be wrong, mustn't it? Can I change something to speed things up, like forcing mwm to stay "alert"? All hints are welcome... Einar C. Thorsen Phone : + 31 70 314 21 65 Shape Technical Centre Internet: thorsen@issun3.stc.nl The Hague, The Netherlands UUCP : ...!hp4nl!shapetc!thorsen P.S. Here is an example of a "ps -axv": PID TT STAT TIME SL RE PAGEIN SIZE RSS LIM %CPU %MEM COMMAND 11743 co S 3:19 1 99 3057 2080 732 xx 0.0 4.9 xnews 12540 pa S 0:00 1 29 38 92 420 xx 0.0 2.8 csh 11754 co S 0:05 1 99 216 124 368 xx 0.0 2.5 clock 12559 pa R 0:00 0 0 0 144 360 xx 0.0 2.4 ps 12539 ? S 0:00 1 30 20 36 272 xx 0.0 1.8 in.rlogind 62 ? S 0:18 11 11 2219 36 52 xx 0.0 0.3 in.routed 1 ? I 0:05 20 20 1913 52 36 xx 0.0 0.2 init 130 ? S 74:57 0 99 453 16 28 xx 0.0 0.2 screenblank 105 ? IW 0:00 99 99 0 92 0 xx 0.0 0.0 rpc.lockd 12295 p9 IW 0:02 99 99 26 88 0 xx 0.0 0.0 csh 53 ? IW 0:17 24 0 1847 68 116 xx 0.0 0.0 portmap 56 ? IW 0:00 99 99 0 40 0 xx 0.0 0.0 keyserv 11708 co IW 0:04 99 99 59 80 0 xx 0.0 0.0 csh 78 ? IW 0:01 99 99 113 64 0 xx 0.0 0.0 syslogd 86 ? IW 0:09 99 99 1563 104 0 xx 0.0 0.0 sendmail 11778 co IW 0:05 99 99 979 320 0 xx 0.0 0.0 mwm 11756 p0 IW 0:01 99 99 109 88 0 xx 0.0 0.0 csh 93 ? IW 0:01 99 99 497 56 0 xx 0.0 0.0 rpc.mountd 11748 co IW 0:19 99 99 607 256 0 xx 0.0 0.0 xterm 11751 co IW 0:06 99 99 362 256 0 xx 0.0 0.0 xterm 11736 co IW 0:00 99 99 5 32 0 xx 0.0 0.0 sh 11753 co IW 0:00 99 99 38 236 0 xx 0.0 0.0 xterm 117 ? IW 0:01 99 99 143 56 0 xx 0.0 0.0 cron 12294 ? IW 0:01 99 99 6 36 0 xx 0.0 0.0 in.rlogind 12143 p7 IW 0:00 99 99 19 76 0 xx 0.0 0.0 csh 12279 p8 IW 0:03 99 99 234 88 0 xx 0.0 0.0 csh 103 ? IW 0:00 99 99 3 52 0 xx 0.0 0.0 rpc.statd 11762 p6 IW 0:00 99 99 22 76 0 xx 0.0 0.0 csh 123 ? IW 0:01 29 0 228 56 48 xx 0.0 0.0 inetd 126 ? IW 0:00 99 99 17 52 0 xx 0.0 0.0 lpd 11750 co IW 0:00 99 99 43 236 0 xx 0.0 0.0 xterm 12317 p6 IW 0:07 99 99 1275 3036 0 xx 0.0 0.0 sarcs 11757 p3 IW 0:00 99 99 2 76 0 xx 0.0 0.0 csh 11749 co IW 0:05 99 99 308 244 0 xx 0.0 0.0 xterm 12142 co IW 0:00 99 99 132 236 0 xx 0.0 0.0 xterm 12510 p2 IW 0:03 99 99 99 172 0 xx 0.0 0.0 vi 12278 ? IW 0:04 99 99 30 36 0 xx 0.0 0.0 in.rlogind 11752 co IW 0:10 99 99 667 256 0 xx 0.0 0.0 xterm 11745 co IW 0:00 99 99 4 28 0 xx 0.0 0.0 sh 343 ? IW 0:02 99 99 834 48 0 xx 0.0 0.0 rpc.rquotad 12406 p7 IW 0:00 99 99 13 40 0 xx 0.0 0.0 go 12457 p9 IW 0:01 99 99 37 172 0 xx 0.0 0.0 view 12395 co IW 0:02 99 99 170 244 0 xx 0.0 0.0 filemgr 11761 p2 IW 0:01 99 99 60 100 0 xx 0.0 0.0 csh 11758 p1 IW 0:00 99 99 0 76 0 xx 0.0 0.0 csh 11747 co IW 0:00 99 99 132 192 0 xx 0.0 0.0 xterm 11759 p4 IW 0:00 99 99 14 76 0 xx 0.0 0.0 csh 11742 co IW 0:00 99 99 24 40 0 xx 0.0 0.0 xinit 11760 p5 IW 0:02 99 99 111 88 0 xx 0.0 0.0 csh 114 ? S 44:37 18 18 398 12 8 xx 0.0 0.1 update 2 ? D 1:59 11 99 0 0 0 xx 0.0 0.0 pagedaemon 66 ? I 1:22 99 99 0 16 0 xx 0.0 0.0 biod 95 ? I 0:52 27 99 1959 28 0 xx 0.0 0.0 nfsd 68 ? I 1:24 99 99 0 16 0 xx 0.0 0.0 biod 65 ? I 1:22 99 99 0 16 0 xx 0.0 0.0 biod 100 ? I 0:49 27 99 1973 28 0 xx 0.0 0.0 nfsd 94 ? I 0:50 27 99 2007 28 0 xx 0.0 0.0 nfsd 102 ? I 0:51 27 99 1961 28 0 xx 0.0 0.0 nfsd 101 ? I 0:51 27 99 2024 28 0 xx 0.0 0.0 nfsd 98 ? I 0:51 27 99 1975 28 0 xx 0.0 0.0 nfsd 67 ? I 1:22 99 99 0 16 0 xx 0.0 0.0 biod 97 ? I 0:50 27 99 1923 28 0 xx 0.0 0.0 nfsd 92 ? I 0:51 27 99 1960 28 0 xx 0.0 0.0 nfsd 0 ? D 1:30 0 99 12202 0 0 xx 0.0 0.0 swapper