mes@cci632.UUCP (Ted Shawe) (03/12/91)
I have a good friend with a 386 system running xenix v2.3.2 with 4 meg RAM, a 128 meg drive, swap is 6 meg. The system is used to run a CAD program called ARIS. He is currently having an intermittent problem with the system hanging in the middle of a drawing with no panics or messages of any kind. He is unable to switch to another virtual screen or do anything but reboot. SCO and ARIS hem and haw and generally point the finger at each other. My first guess is memory or i/o contention. He has no problem spending some money to fix the problem but he is a one-person shop and can't afford to throw money at the problem randomly. I would like to help him out but I don't normally use xenix. I was looking for a tool to check virtual memory, i/o statistics, etc. Can anyone help? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Shawe uucp: rochester!cci632!sunsrvr2!mes c/o Computer Consoles, Inc. or mes@sunsrvr2.cci.com 97 Humboldt Street AT&T: 716 482-5000 x3115 Rochester, NY 14609 ....all the news that causes fits.... -------------------------------------------------------------------
mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires) (03/12/91)
In article <55019@cci632.UUCP> mes@sun80.UUCP (Ted Shawe) writes: >I have a good friend with a 386 system running xenix v2.3.2 with 4 meg RAM, a 128 meg drive, swap is 6 meg. The system is used to run a CAD program called ARIS. > There is a system monitor modified for XENIX 386 that was posted here some time ago; it checks everything but memory (hooks are there but that part of the code was not finished). I've used it under 2.2 and 2.3 (must be recompiled) and it was useful; it allowed me to kill some zombie processes I couldn't kill otherwise. I also use the AMI diagnostics for hardware testing. If the system were mine I would swap motherboards and DRAM and try again; having an entire multi-tasking system hang suggests that hardware might be a problem. I have sources and binaries for "monitor" if needed; call 812 333 0450, login of "bbs", go to xenix386 download area and look for monitor.tar.Z and monitor2.2.Z (2.2 binary). (Mail to poster failed, no map entry for "sun80" at this site.) -- Mike Squires (mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) 812 855 3974 (w) 812 333 6564 (h) mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu 546 N Park Ridge Rd., Bloomington, IN 47408 Under construction: mikes@sir-alan.cica.indiana.edu