HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: No more processes ?  It's a lie !
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:48:55 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <dtlnb9m.enertec@netcom.com> enertec@netcom.com (Rick Whiffen) writes:
> I am posting this here in the hope that someone can provide
> me with a clue for the solution to this problem.
> 
> We are running ISC 3.0 Unix, SyBase, some client applications
> and X-windows(r4) on a 486 platform and are experincing a
> strange problem.
> 
> While running, the system will output (on the F8 console) messages from
> sybase "no more processes" and the X server Xvga "Select waitforsomething
> errno=11".  Both software packages seem to believe that the process table
> is full.  I have verified that this is not the case ( NPROC=200 and ps -ef
> yields 78 entries).  The system seems to function fine (applications perform
> thier expectted tasks properly), but we are concerned that we exhausting some
> system resource that will bite us in the future.  Scanning the man pages indicates
> that errno 11 can be returned by system calls that have nothing to do with
> process manipulation (most notably message and STREAMS calls).  Use of "crash"
> and the strstat command, however indicates that no stream parameters have been
> exceeded.
> 
> If anyone can provide some insight related to this problem, the help would
> be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanx in advance
> 
> John Feras
> 
> enertec@netcom.com
> 

Check the per-user process limit (MAXUPROC?).  There are two number-of-process
limit: the size of the process table, which applies to the entire system,
and the per-user process limit, which keeps single user from sucking up the
whole process limit.  So it is very possible, especially when using lots
of windows, for a user to run out of processes while the system has plenty
of space left.


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From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Consensys and serial ports
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:36:22 GMT

jjones@ssdc.UUCP (Jeff Jones) writes:

>Where is this SAS driver??  Is it part of the release or is it a driver some
>one else put out?????  Thanks in advance.   

Look for the latest SAS to be posted here (or in alt.sources) this weekend

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From: raymond@es.ele.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: News in Europe (was FAS 2.10 async driver...)
Date: 28 Aug 92 09:13:26 GMT
	<56.7979@okys.infoserv.com>
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
In-reply-to: madsere@okys.infoserv.com's message of 27 Aug 92 15:24:56 GMT

In article <56.7979@okys.infoserv.com> madsere@okys.infoserv.com (Rene Madsen) writes:

>   In article <2504@aegis.or.jp>, davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
>> madsere@okys.infoserv.com (Rene Madsen) writes:

>> When I first read about how somebody in Europe was dialing the U.S. to
>> get a feed, it seemed odd, to say the least.

>   Yup, that is apparently just like Europa. It _is_ possible to get a
>   news feed from one of the universities, but the prices I have got 
>   so far are _far_ above the price for the US connection (phone lines
>   included) I'm still looking though.

Why not have a look The Netherlands. Here, there are several sites offering
USENET news ("NEABBS" in Amsterdam comes to mind). I don't know their rates,
but they're most likely considerably cheaper than fetching news via an 
intercontinental phone line.
In addition, there are some (at least two that I know of) organizations
through which non-profit users can get a feed.
Finally, you can get read-only feeds from several BBSes, allowing you to
reduce costs to posting only through a possibly more expensive alternative
channel.

-Raymond
PS: since this discussion doesn't belong in this newsgroup, I suggest moving
it to a more appropriate newsgroup.
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From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell hardware
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:37:58 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Aug25.182537.14079@gtech.com>, ayr@gtech.com (Aleksey Y. Romanov) writes:
| 
| I saw Dell catalog, about 3 weeks ago. There are lmost no
| cache machines. Is it true that cache technology is unavalable
| from Dell or I had missed something

  They do make cached machines, although I can't pick the models off the
tip of my tongue.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: memanuel@cbnews.cb.att.com (mark.emanuele)
Subject: Adding third and fourth hard drives to ISC 4.0 3.0
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:25:45 GMT

I am trying to add  third and fourth SCSI hard drives to my Interactive 
System V Rel 4.0 Ver 3.0 System. When I do a "diskadd c0t4d0" to add the 
drive on target 4 I get the following message:

Cannot access /dev/rdsk/c0t4d0s0

Then I get an fdisk error message.


I looked at the /dev/rdsk directory, and saw no entry for c0t4d0s0.

Am I doing something wrong?  TFM seems to say I am doing it right. 

What gives ?


Mark A. Emanuele
Sr. Network Engineer
AT&T Easy Link Services


memanuele@attmail.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Unix/Xwindows on a 486...Where/How much?
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:01:22 GMT

jrh@mustang.dell.com (Randy Howard) writes:

>>This is for limited users, eh?  The last I looked, DELL V.4 was $1295.
>True.  However, substantial discounts are available for factory installed
>system orders.  $495 limited, $795 unlimited.  The customer kit pricing
>is 995/1295.

Sorry, I'm not going to dump my existing machines and go buy DELL
in order to get a good price on DELL UNIX.  

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From: danson@lgc.com (Doug Anson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Looking for u386mon v3.41 or above
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:25:30 GMT
Organization: LandMark Graphics Corporation LGC

In article <Bu0J75.6t8@csi.compuserve.com>, sam@csi.compuserve.com (Sam Neely) writes:
|> Could someone point me to the sources to u386mon version 3.41 or above?
|> The only version I've been able to find via archie is from comp.sources.misc
|> and is version 2.40.
|> 
|> Thanks.
|> -- 
|> Sam Neely, CompuServe Incorporated                  +1 614 442 2089 (voice)
...

What is u386mon ?  I would be interested in the sources as well..

Thanks for any pointers.
Doug

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From: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com (Andy Finkenstadt)
Subject: Re: Getty problem with Interactivee 3.0?
Keywords: getty init interactive
Reply-To: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com
Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:27:55 GMT

gpitcher@crash.cts.com (Glenn Pitcher) writes:
>>What seems to have happened is init wouldn't spawn *any* gettys.  Not even on

Sounds like one of your files in /etc/rc[23].d/S* doesn't exit correctly.
I had exactly(!) this problem once when a process in /etc/rc2.d/S39lp
hung in the foreground instead of the background.

Specifically - when I attempt to do an Equinox +lp on a port where the
printer is turned off - it hangs waiting to open the port and the system
appears locked up.  I would double-check each and every Snn* job and
make sure you didn't change anything there.

>This is a second plea for assistance... my system is down again!!  Does any
>one know anything about this?

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From: Jonathan P. Crone <cronejp@bnr.ca>
Subject: Follow up to my questions about Dos Memory in ODT 2.0
Organization: Bell Northern Research
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1b3
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 12:02:24 GMT

Last week, I posted a question asking for help dealing with my 
lack of conventional memory in Dos sessions in ODT.

Turns out that there is a config mess up in the ODT 2.0 install
procedure.... After you've finished getting ODT2.0 installed and
configured, the dos images that get made, don't have the high
memory drivers installed....

remove the config.mki file from /usr/merge/image
do a mkimg 

and then the dos images that allow loading high are
enabled. (I end up with 610K of available memory.) 

Thanks to the people that emailed and posted with assistance in this
regard. 

(Now if I could only get my DigiBoard to work with Dos Merge... sigh) 

JpC

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Good alternatives to vi on ESIX 4.0.4
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:25:14 GMT

esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:

>> how about emacs with a WordStar key-mappings?

>While this is the first thing I thought of, too, I'm...not sure it
>qualifies as...fast... :-) :-)

I have emacs on-line here for use only because it comes with on
the Dell distribution tape along with *lots* of other utlities
and tools (including TeX) -- I've been told that there is a wordstar
key-mapping file to make emaces feel and operate like WS 3.3 -- 
if so, I would like to get my hands on this file - just to see since
I'm a WS user now for just about 10 years back from the CPM days

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Subject: Re: consensys SYSVR4
Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 02:08:16 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.144050.12154@rei.com>
	rick@rei.com (Richard J. Barton) writes:

>>Does anyone have any suggestions or experience with consensys Sys V?

>I have Consensys SVR4 purchased in January.  It seems to be very standard
>and works quite well.

Dellevangelists notwithstanding, this is common to most R4s.

>Consensys
>has had a bad reputation for support but I think they are trying to
>improve this.

I would tend to agree. I visited their head office (nice new digs just
north of Toronto, much bigger than their old location) and they seem to
be getting their act together. The recent expansion also suggests that
they're doing something right...

Technical support staff is being beefed up, they say, and they're
painfully aware of their Usenet reputation. More people have been hired
for this task.

Future plans for Consensys include a transition from R4.0.4 to Desting
(R4.2), and the introduction of a software-based RAID facility that will
work with existing hard disk and SCSI drivers (ie, no special hardware
besides the conventional adaptors and raw drives). They plan to announce a
number of new products at UNIXExpo in New York.

>I have been hearing a lot of good things about DELL recently and you may
>want to look into this.  I don't know what the price is thought.  It
>certainly sounds well worth investigating.

Without the super deal they had before, Consensys has to compete with
the others now on features, not price. Thay may have a rough road, but I
wouldn't count them out.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Subject: Re: X386 1.2E (X11R5) binaries for AT&T SVR3.2.3?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:58:29 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.155633.10735@hp1.holl.com> dave@hp1.holl.com (David Vrona) writes:
> In article <17dv69INNr8g@agate.berkeley.edu> ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes:
> >
> >I understand that the reason the binaries for SVR3.2 systems are not
> >available is the lack of support for R3.2 shared libs (the binaries
> >will be huge).  Are there any plans of changing this in
> >future releases of X386 1.2E?  How hard is it to create shared libs
> >under SVR3.2?  We, poor 3.2 holdouts, are the ones that need X386 1.2E
> >the most.   ...stuff deleted...
> 
> Bravo!  I'm sure there are many people like myself that are in the same
> situation.
> 
> Has anyone been able to tackle this problem?
> 
> dave
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We have asked, several times, for volunteers to work on shared libraries for
SVR3.  Jim Tsillas <jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu> has volunteered to
help and to coordinate the effort.  Unfortunately, he is just now getting
his system back up after a disk crash (seems Jim doesn't believe in
backups :->).  Please contact him if you are interested in helping.  We
have recently gotten a couple of offers for FTP sites.  We are currently
working on a significant update to X386 1.2E; this will be available on
at least one SVR3 archive.  We haven't decided on a release schedule yet;
if it will be a while, we will put the current X386 1.2E up on the archive
and post an announcement.

The bottom line is that unless people volunteer, the work doesn't get done.
We're not a commercial venture; we don't have extra machines lying around
that we can run 10 different operating systems on.  So find some time,
contact Jim, and, if we're lucky and hardworking, maybe the next release
will support SVR3 shared libraries.

And, as I said before, there's always the commercial options from SGCS
and MetroLink.

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From: raymond@es.ele.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: When to install FAS
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:07:43 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
In-reply-to: fred@cv.ruu.nl's message of 31 Aug 92 19:20:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.192005.8610@cv.ruu.nl> fred@cv.ruu.nl (Fred Appelman) writes:

>   I just installed a new V32bis/V42bis modem under DELL unix. Everything
>   seems to work with the standard tty drivers. Can someone tell me when 
>   and under what conditions I should install the FAS drives.

If you don't have any problems, don't consider changing anything.

The [S|F]AS driver is very good if you need *real* modem control,
*real* high speed, or if you have a non-standard tty configuration, eg. a
mix of different serial adapters.

In addition, it reduces the system load because it's much more efficient than
all stock asy drivers I've seen so far.

-Raymond
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: geoff@netcom.com (Geoffrey Leach)
Subject: Gifs "sparkle": XX11R5/X386/ET4000
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 16:12:20 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

I'm running stock X11R5 (fix-16) on and Orchid ProDesigner IIs (ET4000) and an
Nanao Flexscan 9080i.

When I load a gif (using xv) the resolution is good, but the image sparkles,
resulting from the random occurence of white pixels in the image.  Afterwards,
the borders of the windows (twm) have the same behavior.

As I had to interpolate values for the display values of the config file,
I suspect that the problem comes from that activity.  Any ideas?

Heare's my config.

Xqueue
AutoRepeat 500 5
Xleds      1 2 3
ServerNumLock
FasTimeout    30

vga256
Virtual       1024 1024
ViewPort      0 0
Modes         "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

ModeDB
"640x480"     25      640  664  760  800    480  491  493  525
"800x600"     36      800  824  896 1024    600  601  603  625
	      40      800  840  968 1056    600  601  605  628
"1024x768"    80     1024 1048 1152 1328    768  788  793  833

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From: rreitzig@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Rolf Reitzig)
Subject: SCO ODT performance
Organization: U S WEST Information Technologies
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:45:29 GMT


I am posting a description of a problem I am experiencing with SCO ODT V1.1.
Any replies are greatly appreciated.

I am running SCO ODT V1.1 on a DEC 433MP computer with 24 MB memory and 1 
processor.  This is DEC's modified version of ODT, but the same problem has 
occurred on true SCO ODT.

Recently, I upgraded a site from a 486 computer with IDE drives running SCO 
Xenix to the aforementioned DEC/ODT system.  ALL applications are the same,
so the only changes have been the computer, and OS.

After the switchover had been performed, the users (approximately 15 on dumb
terminals) noticed that their response time has decreased severely.  The users
are running the same applications as before, and NO X-Terminals are involved
as of now.

Using sar and vmstat, the CPU usage shows > 80% idle, and no swapping or
paging is occurring.  Basically, the computer says it is running fine.

After speaking to DEC technical support, I decided to try some benchmarks on
disk access time.  I found the following:  copying a 25 MB file from fileA to
fileB took 13 minutes on the Xenix computer, and 2.5 minutes on the DEC 
computer.  Not bad.  However, vmstat reported that the CPU was 93% idle, with
7% system useage on the Xenix computer, while the DEC computer was 0% idle, with
100% system useage.  While the copying was taking place, a user could login to
the Xenix computer with no delay, while a login on the DEC computer was
insufferable slow.  These tests were performed with 2 root users logged in, no
users on the system at all.

Basically, I have concluded that disk access operates at very high priority in
ODT, and this is the cause of the performance problems.  

Am I on the right track?  Any suggestions?

Post, or mail replies to rreitzig@uswest.com

Thank you in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: ESIX 4.0.4 ttymon problems...HELP!
Keywords: ttymon, esix
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:43:09 GMT

peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm) writes:
>And yes, ttymon (properly configured) *is* better than getty!

Why?

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Subject: Re: DOS5.0 meets the creature from large SCSI disks and ISC 2.0.2
Reply-To: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Organization: Snake Island Research Inc, Toronto
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:09:41 GMT

In article <BtyA6A.6q6@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky) writes:
>
>>I am contemplating an attempt to move my DOS5.0 (with damn windows
>>so I can run Corel Draw) onto my Unix Box.
>
>Have you thought of getting Corel Draw for UNIX and running it under
>UNIX on your box?

$$$$ problems. 


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Snake Island Research Inc  (416) 368-6944   FAX: (416) 360-4694 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Does anyone know a FAX package
Keywords: FAX
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:23:47 GMT

fred@cv.ruu.nl (Fred Appelman) writes:

>Does anyone know if there is some software package (PD) that runs under UNIX
>(Dell) and supports FAX modems? I would like to have the possibility to 

netfax comes to mind -- try ftp.uu.net



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