From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Subject: vhand is bringing my R4K Indigo to its knees!
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:38:15 GMT

Our newly upgraded R4K Indigo is SLOWER than our 4D/50 GT  :-P

Top gives the following:

IRIX lucy 4.0.5F 08280217 IP20 Load[12.39,10.88,8.53] 18:23:58   56 procs
    user   pid  pgrp  %cpu proc  pri  size   rss    time  command
    root     2     0  69.5    0    0     0     0    7:46  vhand
    lisa 24284 22243   4.6    *  105   234    17    0:46  xball
    root 28500 28500   3.4    *  +65    98    70    0:01  top
    root   255   255   2.8    *   20  1629   849    1:05  Xsgi
    root     3     0   2.6    *   20     0     0    0:08  bdflush
    root   132   132   2.0    *   20    91    45    2:11  rpc.lockd
    root    95     0   1.6    *   26    62    13    0:07  ypserv
    lisa 22250 22243   1.4    *   29  2185  1850    0:38  ksh
    root    83     0   1.4    *   20    45    22    0:02  portmap
 sbernst 19407 19407   1.0    *   29  4353  3072    1:47  ksh
    root 28513   135   0.8    *   20    76    32    0:00  inetd
 sbernst 28532 28532   0.8    *   10    52     3    0:00  playaifc
 sbernst 19835 19835   0.8    *   29  4263  2907    1:37  ksh
    lisa 22311 22243   0.6    *   26   634   129    0:06  4Dwm
 sbernst 28528 28528   0.4    *   20    52     6    0:00  playaifc
    lisa 28534 22243   0.4    *   25    52     6    0:00  playaifc
 sbernst 28533 28533   0.2    *   10    52     3    0:00  playaifc
    root 22197   135   0.2    *   26    94    22    0:01  telnetd   

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Now what did I screw up? 
Kinda embarassing to have it running so slow. Also I got the following
message in the SYSLOG:

Jan  7 22:52:32 lucy unix: WARNING: Process [ksh] pid 12308 killed due to insufficient memory/swap.
Jan  7 22:52:32 lucy unix:
Jan  7 22:52:43 lucy unix: WARNING: Process [ksh] pid 12311 killed due to insufficient memory/swap. [filter /usr/adm/klogpp failed:]
Jan  7 22:52:43 lucy unix:
Jan  7 22:52:58 lucy unix: WARNING: Process [ksh] pid 492 killed due to insufficient memory/swap.
Jan  7 22:52:58 lucy unix:
Jan  7 23:28:26 lucy unix: WARNING: Process [ksh] pid 23134 killed due to insufficient memory/swap.
Jan  7 23:28:26 lucy unix:
Jan  7 23:28:38 lucy unix: WARNING: Process [ksh] pid 23138 killed due to insufficient memory/swap. [filter /usr/adm/klogpp failed:]

and osview shows:

  Osview 2.0 : One Second Average   lucy     01/08/93 15:35:20 #583   int=5s
 Load Average          cw           150  Graphics              Opackets      33
   1 Min      4.737    steal        158    griioctl       0    Ierrors        0
   5 Min      4.669    onswap         0    gintr         60    Oerrors        0
   15 Min     4.602    oncache       60    swapbuf        0    collisions     2
 CPU Usage             onfile         0    switch         0  NetIF[lo0]
   %user          3    freed          0    fifowait      14    Ipackets      17
   %sys          92    unmodswap      0    fifonwait      0    Opackets      17
   %intr          1    unmodfile      0  System Activity     Wait Ratio
   %gfxc          0  Block Devices         syscall      476    %IO          2.6
   %gfxf          0    lread     502.0K    read           6    %Swap        0.0
   %idle          3    bread       3.8K    write          0    %Physio      0.0
 Real Memory           %rcache     99.2    fork          11  Scheduler
   Phys       64.0M    lwrite    129.4K    exec          23    runq           5
   Locked      4.4M    bwrite         0    readch       229    swapq          0
   Sysdata    24.0K    %wcache    100.0    writech      119    switch       158
   Free        2.6M    phread         0    iget         141  Interrupts
   Delwri         0    phwrite        0  TCP                   all          327
   Userdata   57.0M  TLB Actions           sndtotal       0    vme            0
   Freeswap    5.5M    newpid        63    rcvtotal       0  Swap
 Virtual Memory        tfault       132    sndbyte       59    swapin         0
   vfault        95    rfault        12    rcvbyte        0    swapout        0
   pfault       276    flush          0  NetIF[ec0]            bswapin        0
   demand        34    sync           0    Ipackets      40    bswapout       0


Thanks!


P.S. The cute "R4000" medalion that comes with the upgrade kit is
     very niffty...I put it on the lower right front cooling vents
     like the directions said...kinda' reminds me of the grill medalions
     on our old (1982) Mercedes TD300 diesel wagon :-)
-- 
David M. Senseman, Ph.D.     | A man who has never gone to school may steal 
(senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu) | from a freight car; but if he has a university
Division of Life Sciences    | education, he may steal the whole railroad.
UT San Antonio               |             Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
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