HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: joe@grc.genroco.com (Joe Nordman)
Subject: Re: Recommendations for high disk throughput
Organization: GENROCO, Inc.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:55:07 GMT

In article <C1BFFz.EEr@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
>alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow) writes:
>}thomson@zarda.macc.wisc.edu (Don Thomson) writes:
>}>We are looking at upgrading our campus Usenet News server from a hopelessly
>}>overburdened DECstation 3100 to a DECstation 5000/240.  The biggest bottleneck
>}>for handling news has been disk access time, so we're looking at options that
>}>will allow us the highest disk throughput possible to a disk with a capacity
>}>of at least a gigabyte.  I'm looking for advice on an optimal configuration
>}>for these needs, including:
> ...
>}Most of the I/O was 8 KB, but the next biggest chunk was 1 KB.
>
>}An IPI subsystem will probably help, but it seems a bit overkill...
>
>Perhaps not.  A fairly recent Usenix Paper, "Why SCSI is better than IPI
>for NFS" (or something like that), held that IPI was really only a win
>for large sequential I/Os, for the NFS I/O mix (generally 8KB and all
>over the disk [sound familiar?]) SCSI was a win.
>
>John

Actually on Ultrix systems this is not true.  IPI will still win.  The
paper uses a couple of arguments which are either outdated, or don't
apply to these systems:

1) SCSI should do better for random I/O since it has a buffer and IPI
   doesn't.

   The newest IPI drives now have buffers just like SCSI drives (Seagate's
   Elite-3 IPI drive has a .5 MB buffer).  Even when using non-buffered
   drives on DECsystems, this argument still fails since the IPI
   **controllers** extensively buffer and cache the data.  The paper
   compared a situation where the IPI drive was connected to the system
   with a much less sophisticated IPI **adapter**.

2) SCSI optimizes multiple drives by placing a lot of intelligence on the
   drive.

   Again newer IPI drives also have this increased intelligence built in.
   Also, the IPI controllers for DECsystems provides a much higher level
   of optimization than the SCSI adapters.  The IPI controllers can do
   overlapped seeks, command queueing, command ordering, rotational latency
   optimization, and command consolidation - all controlled by an on-board
   microprocessor which is running at 10 Million instructions per second.

Now as Alan Rollow points out, this may well be overkill for the original
requirement.  But even for random I/O or NFS; on DECsystems, IPI is much
faster than SCSI.  BTW, all the above remains true for TURBOchannel based
Alpha systems (DEC 3000/500 and DEC 3000/400) running OSF/1.


--
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GENROCO, Inc.           

Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: GEustace@massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace)
Subject: Re: DEC FAXserver?  Anybody used this?
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 19:34:10 GMT

We tried it with a generic class 2 fax modem with no success.  We
bought an everex and it then worked fine.  Our experience so far has
only been with outgoing faxes.  I see the product being quite useful
in the future.

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From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: strange path hardwired in awk
Date: 29 Jan 1993 03:40:53 GMT
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.tis.com
Keywords: awk

>While looking through a more than usually verbose audit log,
>I noticed that awk attempts to open /crp/pjw/awkhist/awkhist.
>`strings /bin/awk' shows that this path is hardwired into
>the binary. Does anyone know why or what this is?

	Well, pwj is Peter Weinberger, the 'w' in "awk". I'd
be very surprised if this wasn't some kind of joke, though, since
a load of people have picked over the awk code since its inception.
I vaguely recall someone telling me that the version of nawk that
ships with ULTRIX is from Mortise Kern Systems, not the original
AT&T version, though I never bothered to check.

mjr.
From: beck@irs132.inf.tu-dresden.de (Andre Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: LinkWorks & reclock
Date: 26 Jan 1993 18:28:23 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: Andre_Beck@IRS.Inf.TU-Dresden.DE
NNTP-Posting-Host: irs132.inf.tu-dresden.de
Keywords: linkworks reclock


Hi,

after running lwksetup on a DEC 5000/xxx client I get lots of the following
lines in my xconsole:

remote_block reclock 1000B080
remote_block reclock 1000B100
remote_block reclock 1000B080
remote_block reclock 1000B180
remote_block reclock 1000B100
remote_block reclock 1000B200
remote_block reclock 1000B180
remote_block reclock 1000B080
..
..

This messages occure on every menu-handling with the links menu in lwk-able
clients. I also had situations were they never ended and lwksetup never
came back, or on the other hand I got a "Linkbase locking error" with
lwksetup.
It seems to be somewhat related to wether NFS locking is enabled or not.

Can anybody explain me the sense of this messages, and how I may get rid
of them ???

Thanx...
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| o |                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                           | o |
| o | Andre' Beck (ABPSoft) mehl: Andre_Beck@IRS.Inf.TU-Dresden.DE | o |
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: tusia@decum.muh.dec.com (Dick Tusia)
Subject: Re: Load average way too high
Reply-To: tusia@decum.muh.dec.com (Dick Tusia)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:34:13 GMT

We have had a couple customers here in Germany report a similar problem.
In most cases the problem went away when the kern_fork.o 
patch was applied. This patch is for V4.2, V4.2a and V4.3. 
Contact your local CSC for a copy of this patch.

This patch offically fixes a problem where the system generates duplicate PIDs
if the PID table wraps around with PID_MAX=30000.

Good Luck,

Dick Tusia
Munich, Germany
From: mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: I installed Motif, can I delete DECwindows?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:46:03 GMT
Organization: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Company
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost

In article <106628@netnews.upenn.edu> lau@desci.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan
K. Lau) writes:

:Motif still sometimes gets stuck, usually with a pulldown Session Manager
:menu.  I've tried the various suggestions on the net and the frequency of
:this happening seems to be diminishing.

There's an X server patch you can obtain from DEC that takes care of
this problem.  Talk to your DEC representative.

						...Mike

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mark@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Mark Van Overbeke)
Subject: Hardware password for DECstation 2100/3100
Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:27:15 GMT

Ultrix world!

  We have a couple of DECstation 2100s that we will be placing into a
fairly uncontrolled and hostile user environment.  We would like to be
able to have a hardware password to get at some of the more fun console
commands.  We want to prevent these machines from getting into single
user mode unless the person knows the hardware password or some other
such method to get to single user mode.  All it takes is some
enterprising user to unplug the machine turn it on, and boot to single
user mode to muck up that machine.  It doesn't take much more to figure
out some commands and get some nfs partitions mounted and then go about
wiping them out.  I realize a hardware password will probably only slow
down someone who is really good, but I don't think we have anyone on
campus like that at this time.  Any pointers anyone can give about a
firmware upgrade that will do this for us, without going to a 5000/xxx,
I would like to hear about it.  Aside from that, if there are other ways
to do something like this, I would like to hear those also.  Thanks.


-- 
Mark Van Overbeke                   Systems Software Programmer
Computing Services                  BITNET:    Mark@UMNMOR.BITNET   (VMS)
University of Minnesota, Morris     INTERNET:  Mark@caa.mrs.umn.edu (VMS) 
Morris, MN   56267           (612) 589-6378    mark@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Ultrix)
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: ccksb@trentu.ca (Ken Brown)
Subject: Errorlog Buffer Full - what to do?
Organization: Trent University, Ontario
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:37:36 GMT


Howdy all...

The console of our DECstystem 5000 (running ultrix 4.2) is reporting 
messages like:

Errorlog Buffer Full: 44 Missed Errors

Uhmmm...what is this, what is the cause and what can I do to correct
this?

Thanks in advance...
-- 
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Trent University Computing & Telecommunications  tel: (705)748-1540
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, K9J 7B8           fax: (705)748-1246 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: rye@scmbrd.dco.dec.com (Bill Rye)
Subject: Re: ULTRIX .or. OSF?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Digital Services, COL
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:38:08 GMT

In article <1k78j4INN3kh@slab.mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
>the future.  If I can't rely on DEC to support the investment I've made
>in them, I'm going to turn to Sun and/or HP which have a better track-
>record -- and guess what -- are profitable as companies because of it.

Oh?  Didn't Sun ditch the Sun 3 and 386i's?

Didn't HP leave the apollo users high and dry?

No company is perfect.  I agree though, dropping the DECstations and ignoring
the problem is NOT an acceptable solution.

I see 2 possible ones:
	1) Port OSF/1 to DECstations when possible
	2) Offer really good upgrades from old DECstations/VAXstations
	   to new alphas just as Sun offered cheap upgrades from Sun 3's.
Bill Rye	 | DISCLAIMER - Digital may own my thoughts and ideas,
DEC Columbia, MD | but all opinions are my own, no matter how stupid they might
rye@dco.dec.com  | seem.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: stan@sabaac.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Andrew Staniszewski)
Subject: the dbx blues
Reply-To: staniszewski@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 14:10:18 GMT

Hi,
I am having some trouble with dbx.

I am running ultrix 4.2a on a DECstation 5000/200


the dbx debugger has several problems, the easy to isolate ones are


	dbx does not see upper case variables if a lower case variable of
	the same name exists.

	dbx does not print doubles correctly. I have to use printf's in my program
	to display the value of the double correctly.
	NOTE: ladbx has this same problem...


are these problems fixed in 4.3??, and if they are is there a way to get the
executables without installing 4.3?? (My system manager will not install 4.3
because we have cad developers running who can not take the time hit to adapt to
the changes in the os, and because we have diskless clients, and diskless clients
STILL have to be install from scratch with 4.3)

Is there any other way I could get a patched version of dbx ???


another problem I am having is that I have mixed c++ and fortran programs...
and ladbx does not support debuggin fortran, will this EVER be changed???


thanks for any help


Andrew Staniszewski
staniszewski@mayo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mark@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Mark Van Overbeke)
Subject: Re: POP Server for ULTRIX?
Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:16:03 GMT

In article <1k4j5s$c9e@spool.mu.edu> mort@spool.mu.edu.uucp (Martin Wiedmeyer) writes:
>Hi,
>
>We are using WNQVTnet at our site and would like to use the POP client.
>
>But.... ULTRIX has no POP server :-(
>
>Would someone be so kind as to point me in the right direction?
>
>Email please!!!
>
>Thanks.
>--
>Marty Wiedmeyer				mort@studsys.mscs.mu.edu

There are several popmail servers for Unix on boombox.micro.umn.edu for
anonymous ftp in /pub/POPmail/unix.  I am using popd.c on a DECstation
5000/240 with no problems so far.
-- 
Mark Van Overbeke                   Systems Software Programmer
Computing Services                  BITNET:    Mark@UMNMOR.BITNET   (VMS)
University of Minnesota, Morris     INTERNET:  Mark@caa.mrs.umn.edu (VMS) 
Morris, MN   56267           (612) 589-6378    mark@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Ultrix)
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hurmejw@micro2.pb.com (John W. Hurme)
Subject: DEC TKZ09 5GB 8mm Tape Drive under Ultrix
Organization: Pitney Bowes
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:55:21 GMT

Is anyone using the TKZ09 5GB 8mm Tape Drive and know of the
proper dip switch settingsfor running under Ultrix?

Also, there is a rumor that you can write out a tape in 2GB
format with the rmt0l device and 5GB w/ the rmt0h device.
Is this true?

Thanks.
From: cannell@ed8250.ped.pto.ford.com (Larry Cannell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: when does NFS-exports recognize new netgroup
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:10:17 GMT
Organization: Ford Motor Co., Powertrain Electronics
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Whenever I make changes to /etc/exports I kill and restart mountd.

I would assume that by changing netgroups you can do the same to authorize
new groups.

--
Larry Cannell (cannell@ed8200.ped.pto.ford.com)
Powertrain Electronics
Ford Motor Company
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
Subject: Unaligned access in the X server.
Summary: What to do about these fixups.
Keywords: uerf xserver ultrix43
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:36:28 GMT

Hello,

Ever since upgrading to Ultrix V4.3 it has bothered me a bit that
while running a graphics program named 'platon' on our systems,
messages are displayed on the console that mention an overflowing
errlog buffer. ('40 errors were missed', rapidly running in the
1000's).

Last week on this newsgroup I read something about /usr/adm/syserr/xxx
overflowing the disk, and I went and looked: It is 6MB. What I don't
like is the message in it, which looks like a BUS-error in the
X-server is prevented (message appended). This message is generally
repeated 10's of times within the same second.

Should I just ignore this?

Thanks for your time.
						  uerf version 4.2-011 (18)


********************************* ENTRY     3. *********************************
EVENT CLASS                             OPERATIONAL EVENT 
OS EVENT TYPE                  250.     ASCII MSG 
SEQUENCE NUMBER                  2.
OPERATING SYSTEM                        ULTRIX 32 
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON                      Mon Nov 30 14:17:07 1992 MET
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM                      xray2.chem.r 
SYSTEM ID                 x82030230     HW REV: x30
                                        FW REV: x2
                                        CPU TYPE: R2000A/R3000 
PROCESSOR TYPE                          KN02-BA 
MESSAGE                                 Fixed up unaligned data access for pid 
                                         _131 (Xws) at pc 0x4d96c8 



-- 
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Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, University of Utrecht
The Netherlands ===== hooft@chem.ruu.nl (hooft@hutruu54.bitnet)
====Use a Real Operating System on your 386: Linux is FREE!====
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: don@grc.genroco.com (Don Woelz)
Subject: Re: Recommendations for high disk throughput
Organization: GENROCO, Inc.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:51:03 GMT

In article <C1JA9I.50x@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
>
>
>   Not that I doubt any of what was said, but it only seems fair
>   that people know that GENROCO makes IPI controllers for DECs...
>
>John

It should also be pointed out for those who do not know it that the
paper in question was writen by Bruce Nelson and Yu-Ping Cheng of
Auspex systems, manufacturers of SCSI based NFS servers.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: rogers@errno.alf.dec.com (Joe Rogers)
Subject: Re: Phys. memory info
Reply-To: rogers@errno.alf.dec.com (Joe Rogers)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Alpharetta, GA.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:32:31 GMT



	Well, our news server ate 1/2 of my reply, so here goes...

	The two lines that you are interested in are:

	real mem - the total of all memory in the system box,

	avail mem - whats left of real after the kernel takes it's share

	The "using NNN buffers" information provide information about
	the kernel buffer cache, normally it's 10% of real. If someone
	has added "bufcache NN%" to the config file, the number of bytes
	used by the kernel will increase, the memory available to your
	programs will decrease.



    Joe Rogers,  rogers@alf.dec.com  |          % /etc/ping elvis
    Digital Equipment Corporation    |          elvis is alive

            Digital has official spokespeople, I'm not one of them.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: lum@dds4.uucp (Michael Lum)
Subject: ST11200N disktab entry
Organization: Digital Dispatch Systems, Richmond BC
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 03:36:11 GMT

Could someone mail me the disktab entry for a Seagate ST11200N?
I tried to get ultrix-disktabs from gatekeeper.dec.com but couldn't
find it.

Thanks in advance.
-- 
| Michael Lum                                           lum@dds4.wimsey.bc.ca |
| Digital Dispatch Systems, Richmond BC                   Fax: (604) 270 9160 |
| ...they say Confucius does his crossword with a pen...            Tori Amos |
From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Recommendations for high disk throughput
Date: 28 Jan 93 09:50:16 GMT
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208

In article <1993Jan27.205507.13234@grc.genroco.com>, joe@grc.genroco.com (Joe Nordman) writes:
   [ re IPI drives ]
> 
> Now as Alan Rollow points out, this may well be overkill for the original
> requirement.  But even for random I/O or NFS; on DECsystems, IPI is much
> faster than SCSI. ....
> 
  I have no arguments with (but do thank the author for) the info re IPI 
  drives.  But I would opt for slower/cheaper SCSI and throw a lot more memory
  into the machine instead.  At least, OUR DEC 5000's seem to be happier that
  way...


   greg pavlov
   pavlov@fstrf.org
From: gel@sys.uea.ac.uk (Gareth Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Commands
Date: 25 Jan 93 13:12:28 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

aduhon@lub001.lamar.edu writes:

>Is there a command which gives you both pid & idle time?

I don't think so?  'w -s' gives userid and idle time (for each tty).
'id' gives uid/pid for the specified userid.

Gareth Lee.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: epeisach@athena.mit.edu (Ezra Peisach)
Subject: Re: gp relocation error???
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:39:47 GMT

Something which I have seen cause relocation erros during ld is if you
have a global (or what the compiler believes is a global) variable which
is also a procedure name.... (like you don't want to use the variable
named fork....

	Ezra

Xref: sparky comp.unix.ultrix:9577 comp.mail.sendmail:3299
From: coonstot@quads.uchicago.edu (charles orville onstott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc
Subject: Multi I/O and Tape Drive for sale
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:33:22 GMT
Reply-To: coonstot@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Associates in Accouting has the following used equipment for sale.  All 
equipment is in perfect functioning order, we have simply expanded our 
horizons.  All equipment is between 2 and 4 years old.  All drivers
are up to date.

Multi I/O Boards with Xenix Driver:

	Computone Intelliport 8 Port w/RS232 pod		$400
        Computone Intelliport 16 Port w/RS232 pod               $750

Tape backup Unit:

	Archive 40meg 1/4" tape unit (5945C) 
	uses 600ft cartridges.					$250


Please make an offer.

BCnya,

Charles O. Onstot, III
System Administrator

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Subject: Re: Recompile?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 23:14:00 GMT
Organization: Unix in NYC

In article <79690003@teecs.UUCP> to@teecs.UUCP (Norman To) writes:
>If I upgrade my Xenix to Unix 3.2.4, do I have to recompile all
>my programs?

No, you don't; they'll run.

But if they are quite large, you might want to recompile to use the Unix shared
library.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi)
Subject: Re: uucp to smart host
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:16:13 GMT

terry@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu (Terry Klarich) writes:

:)>I also gather that installing smail is an option, though it seems
:)>that with all traffic through a 'smart host' there may be a simpler
:)>solution may be had.

:)I have the same hardware and uucp situation as stated above.  For my
:)mailer, I have installed mmdf.  It works fine for me.  For my user
:)interface, I have mh going.

We are running a similar configuration as you are.  We were running
smail2.5 for a long time without any trouble.  If all you want to do is
forward all your mail to the smart_host it is a piece of cake to set up.
smail3.1.x is a little trickier and heavier (although still not a big
chore.)  2.5 will probably do what you want with a minimal effort.
-- 
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chuck@edsi.plexus.COM    |   that there are so many to choose from.
MiSTie #2356             |   
------<Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton Wisconsin>------
From: ipb@bnr.co.uk (Ian Beeby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: VGA Driver --> thanks!
Date: 21 Jan 93 08:54:19 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Limited, England
NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.100.64.56

Regarding my request for information regarding VGA device drivers for
SCO Xenix 2.3.4 many thanks to 'teddybur@netcom.com' and 'liuwu@acson.com'
for their information.

To summarise; SCO Xenix 2.3.4 (which we have on order here but have not yet
received) DOES contain a basic VGA device driver covering text & graphics
modes as part of the console driver.  It reportedly works just fine with
Tseng4000 video cards.

I await the arrival of the new version with the next post!

Thanks again netters.

Ian Beeby
BNR Europe Limited
Maidenhead
England

tel: +44 628 794624
fax: +44 628 794034
e-mail:  ipb@bnr.ca
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco