HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Disk striping performance
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 19:49:37 GMT

In <3980@mutt.mdavcr.mda.ca> young@mdavcr.mda.ca (Shawn Young) writes:
| I was wondering if anyone had any I/O benchmark results for striped disk sets on
| SGI boxes, either for just the striped disks, or relative to single disk
| partitions. I'm looking for something that'll give me an idea of maximum and 
| expected real-world throughput, and a relative measure of increase/decrease in
| performance with respect to individual disks.

Yes, we have them, but there are way too many variables to give you
an answer with the info you have provided.  The numbers depend a
great deal on machine type, and raw vs filesystem, controllers used,
usage patterns, etc. etc.

| Also, I know that the maximum partition size is 8GB, but what happens if I want 
| two partitions: one consisting of 5 1.6GB striped disks, and the other consisting 
| of 4 of the same. Is there any problem with this? What performance penalties, if 
| any, are there?

No problems, no performance penalties per se.  You are likely to be
above the bandwidth of the controllers, so you may get more SCSI
bus contention, or even system bus on some machines.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
Subject: Re: Indigo squared
Reply-To: ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
Organization: MRL - UIUC
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:33:03 GMT
Keywords: purple plastic shortage

In article <C1JD78.Ex9@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, wyllie@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Andrew
Wyllie) writes:
|>How come the new INDIGO is GREEN?????
|>
|>I guess I'll call it the green machine.

Somebody from Deutschland (sorry: I forgot your name!) already
called it GREENIE about one month ago.  I suggest that we refuse
the uncreative official "Indigo2" and call it, briefly, "the Greenie".
 
--
furio ercolessi    <furio@uiuc.edu>*    <furio@sissa.it>+
* materials research lab, uni illinois at urbana-champaign
+ intl school for advanced studies, trieste, italy   

"Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency"
                                      [ Brian Eno, "Oblique Strategies" ]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: kevinb@oblivion.csd.sgi.com (Kevin Brokaw)
Subject: Re: uucp w/SupraFax modem
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:20:31 GMT

In article <vcnnv9k@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>, vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
|> 
|> Whatever is happening is more complicated that that.
|>

You are correct... the response was a "nutshell" one. It is a basic 
design issue on the Rockwell chipset that the Supra (as well as nearly all
of the other V32bis fax/data modems costing under 275 dollars) uses.. some
shortcuts are taken in the modem design, and it isn't as flexable as 
Hayes/TB/USR/etc modems. I am trying to nail down the specifics, but
suffice at this point to say that I have verified that NDELAY is being
used when the port is opened, but nothing is sent to the modem anyway.
I've tested Uutry/uucico with another non-typical modem (IBM 7855), and 
it works flawlessly with DCD low. It seems that the only way to get 
a Supra to init w/uucico is to set DCD high on it... perhaps it has something
to do with the way the Supra handles DSR or RLSD, but that's a wild
guess. If I use cu it doesn't seem to matter whether or not I set DCD high. 

 
I apologize if my answer was too misleading as to the cause. I realize 
in hindsight that it seemed to point to uucico being the culpret, but
that was not my intent.

-- 
Kevin Brokaw   (kevinb@csd.sgi.com)     | 
Product support engineer                | Sorry, this closet is for anxieties.
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems       | Pipe dreams are under the bed. 
(Forgive them,they know not what I post)|
From: bob@caw2.4950tw.wpafb.af.mil (Bob Plested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: Mailbox program (fwd)
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:10:35 GMT

Chris Carlson writes...
> 
> In <utre5vo@zola.esd.sgi.com> schuman@kaweah.esd.sgi.com (Aaron Schuman) writes:
> 
> >Bob P>  whenever I exit mail, causing the mailbox to zip back to its
> >Bob P>  closed picture, I get: "mailbox: Error 0" in my console window.
> 
> >Yeah, it bothered me too.  Now I launch mailbox with standard error
> >redirected to /dev/null.  I'm a happy man again.
> 
> 
> That's strange.  I've been using mailbox on all the releases and never get
> a mailbox error.  Is there something you're doing differently?
> 
> I run mailbox from .login with the following command:
> 
> 	    /usr/sbin/mailbox -b -L34 -M120 -S $USER -m "Mail -n"
> 	

I also get the "mailbox: Error 0" message, I only started getting it after I
upgraded to Irix 4.0.5. It's not a function of the specific mail program
either; I get that same message whether I use mail, Mail or elm. Note that 
the error message only appears in the window that launched Mailbox. If that
window is deleted I'll never see it. 

bob
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4950th Test Wing/FFXD              134.136.241.11 
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH           (513) 257-6809 DSN 787-6809

When the going gets wierd, the wierd turn pro.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: rweisbe@starfleet.nswc.navy.mil (Bob Weisbeck)
Subject: Re: netlsd
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:04:42 GMT

In article <35083@adm.brl.mil>, beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (Ralf Beyer DLR) writes:
|> 
|> Hi,
|> 
|> from time to time the following message appears in the console
|> window
|> 
|>      netlsd: Unable to register with locating broker
|> 	     communications failure (network computing
|> 	     system/RPC runtime)
|> 
|> The message is not entered into SYSLOG.
|> 
|> I studied the Network License System Administration Guide and
|> the Network Computing System Administration Guide to no avail.
|> 
|> What means this message ? How can I get rid of it ? Should I
|> care about ?
|> 
|> I am using an Indigo/XS24 running 4.0.5A.
|> 
|> Thanks for any help and best regards.
|> 

I also got this message. I'd be interested in any info concerning
it.



|>
From: ib@ivan.asd.sgi.com (Ivan Bach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: Want: Postscript Viewer for 4.0.4
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:22:15 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA

In article <63584@mimsy.umd.edu> dong@umiacs.umd.edu (Dong Chen) writes:
> Hate to say that, but xpsview is even worse than "dxpsview" on DEC.
> For eamaple, the window will not redraw when after scrolling or after moving
> other blocking window away.
We have been forwarding all legitimate complaints and bug reports about
xpsview to Adobe Systems.  I am not able to reproduce what you describe.
I am using the Version 1.2.1 of xpsview on a PI that runs IRIX 4.0.5A. 
Which versions of xpsview and IRIX do you have?  xpsview displays its
version number in the title of its main window.

You may have specified some resources for the X Window System that cause
xpsview to behave that way, or you have a complex PS file that requires 
a lot of memory.  Could you please logout, login as guest, and try to
reproduce the problem with xpsview.  In other words, try to use an account
that has not been customized (that uses default resource values).

xpsview may have problems redrawing an image when it displays a message that
it does not have enough memory to process a PS file.  In that case, you 
should use the option -maxp on an xpsview command line to increase the 
maximum number of bytes that can be allocated for a pixmap.  That option is
described in the man page for xpsview.

Are you having problems with all PS files you display, or only with a
particular PS file?  If you are having problems with a particular PS file
and that file does not contain any confidential or proprietary information,
please send it to me by e-mail.  If I can reproduce the problem you reported,
I'll forward your PS file to Adobe.

Ivan Bach, ib@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: andyr@wizzy.com (Andy Rabagliati)
Subject: Re: uucp w/SupraFax modem
Organization: W.Z.I.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:12:02 GMT

In article <lm8icaINNr8@ai.cs.utexas.edu> meyering@cs.utexas.edu (Jim Meyering) writes:

>I'm using a SupraFax v42.bis modem on port2 (connected by a cable
>bought from SGI).
>
>
>The problem comes when I try to verify that uucp works by running Uutry.

I had exactly the same problem, and found that a solution was to have
uugetty running on the port, through an entry in /etc/inittab.

Private Email from them 'elpful souls at SGI was inconclusive, and did
not solve the problem. Actually, it was not really a problem for me as I
usually have uugetty running, but when testing the modem with Sams fax
software I had to switch uugetty off, and that is when I noticed it.

If it helps, faxd in the flexfax package also 'enables' uucico as well.

Maybe my modem swings on some lines it shouldn't.

And yes, permissions are OK all round, and nothing else is using
/dev/tty[dmf]2. I have a full house modem cable. Honest. Switch on
uugetty, it works, switch it off, it doesn't.

I would be very interested if this solves your problem.

Cheers,    Andy.
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From: chouinar@centrcn.umontreal.ca (Chouinard Luc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: software distribution DB format ?
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:18:27 GMT

Is it possible to extract a single hardware-dependant file from a software
distribution package from SGI?.
I need to be able to extract CPU/GFXBOARD/SUBGR dependant files from the
software package to perform an upgrade on my systems.

Why ?, my systems are installed in a hybride manner between diskless an
standalone or dataless.  All the software is cascade across tree level of
mounted filesystems, from the central-server to lower servers to workstations.
This strategy gives the advantage that all the software is available from
all the machines and that the local disks are used at a maximum on all of
the machines.

I can deduce part the information that I need to do this from the *.idb files
in the software package (name/type/mode of the file and hardware it is 
compiled for).  But I need to be able to extract the file itself.

What would be perfect is if the next version of inst(1) could install software
on machines that have some of their package files on a rdonly-NFS mounted
filesytem. It could skip over NFS mounted files that are tagged has being
rd-only( i.e. not host private files).
It would give a warning for files that are not up to date (this
should not happen if the upgrade is started from the top of the cascade down).
** This feature is also needed by other sysadmins then me ***

I'd would not have all this trouble if I had 400 Megs of disk on every 
workstation but I dont have it.

Ideally, a complete description of the distribution package format would
be greatly apreciated (Oops, what did I just said ? :-) ...

-- 
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Luc Chouinard                   Services Informatiques  |
| Administrateur de Systeme       Universite de Montreal  |
+---------------------------------------------------------+

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: almgren@math.uchicago.edu (Robert Almgren)
Subject: Re: memory problem with Personal IRIS
Reply-To: almgren@math.uchicago.edu
Organization: The University of Chicago, Department of Mathematics
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:11:51 GMT

In article <35249@adm.brl.mil>, andersen@marvin.ama.ttu.edu (Kim Andersen) writes:
> I have a problem with one of my 4D20s.  It will occasionally crash with
> a memory error (PANIC: IRIX killed due to memory error at physical address
> 0xXXXXXX).  It will do this about 4 times over a couple of days, and then
> it's fine for a month or more.  Then it does it again.

I was having a similar problem with my Crimson last week ("PANIC: KERNEL FAULT"
and a "Bad address" which was different every time).  SGI was ready to send
me a new CPU board, but now I think the machine has been overheating because
my acoustic foam panels were packed too closely around it.  I had had no problems
with this configuration for the past four months.

						--Robert Almgren
						University of Chicago
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: orris@i7140a.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Orris)
Subject: GNU Stuff
Followup-To: orris@i5160t.nrl.navy.mil
Keywords: GNU
Organization: US Naval Research Laboratory, Acoustics Division
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:42:28 GMT

Has ANYONE successfully ported GNU make, gcc, g++, glibc and
libg++ to an SGI Indigo?
If so I've got some questions, starting with HOW?
Please reply to 
orris@i5160t.nrl.navy.mil

Thanks,
Greg



Xref: sparky comp.sys.sgi.misc:425 comp.sys.sgi.admin:320
From: rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin
Subject: Re: max. number of process on indigo
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:37:23 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: fangio.asd.sgi.com

kleinren@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Rainer Kleinrensing) writes:
>...we got errors from cron saying that a process
>couldn't be forked. 'ps' showed (shortly after that) a total of 91
>processes running. My question:
>Does
>#define NPROC 96                /* # processes */
>in /usr/sysgen/master.d/kernel indeed define the maximum number of processes ?
>If so, can I just increase this number and do a 'autoconfig -f' ?

Yes, set it to a larger number, say 256, and run autoconfig.

NOTE: there is also MAXUP, the maximum number of processes per user.
      
...robert
From: jparker@aurora.msfc.nasa.gov (John V. Parker (NASA/MSFC/ES44)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Abekas Control Panel program
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:54:26 GMT

I tried making this post over the weekend, but my mailer decided that it was
a good day to die.  I don't think this made it, but if it did, my apologies
for the repeat:
_____________________________________________________________________________
I've noticed that the Abekas Control Panel software provided in
4Dgifts/iristools bombs under 4.0.X.  It worked great under 3.x, and it
compiles without any (serious) problems under 4.0.X.  However, when you try
to run it, you get an "Illegal instruction" message and then it dumps core.
I assume this is related to the move to X-Windows in 4.0, but before I dig
into it, has anyone out there already made the necessary hacks?  If the
collective answer is "No" and I finally get around to fixing it, would anyone
be interested in the updated version? (Dave? Vernon? Calvin? Sam? Anybody?)
Thanks in advance for any (helpful) info!
+------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| John V. Parker                     | Phone:  (205) 544-1526              |
| NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center  |                                     |
| Earth Science and Applications Div.| e-mail: jparker@pcjvp.msfc.nasa.gov |
| ES44/Information Systems Branch    |         jparker@nasamail.nasa.gov   |
| MSFC, AL 35812                     |         storm::parker (NSI/SPAN)    |
+------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: jsw@microunity.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Subject: Re: Indigo squared
Distribution: world
Keywords: purple plastic shortage
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:17:26 GMT

In article <C1JD78.Ex9@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, wyllie@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Andrew Wyllie) writes:
> I only have one question.... 
> How come the new INDIGO is GREEN?????

Indigo, it's not just a color, it's a state of mind.

	--Jeff

-- 
Jeff Weinstein - X Protocol Police
MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc.
jsw@microunity.com
Any opinions expressed above are mine.
From: mberger@relay.nswc.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: TAE+
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:48:23 GMT


Does anyone have TAE+ on their SGI workstations?  Looking for general
impressions and comparison to other packages.

--Mike Bergeron mberger@relay.nswc.navy.mil
--EG&G (WASC) Dahlgren, VA. 22448
From: young@mdavcr.mda.ca (Shawn Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Disk striping performance
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:42:34 GMT

Hi people,

I was wondering if anyone had any I/O benchmark results for striped disk sets on
SGI boxes, either for just the striped disks, or relative to single disk
partitions. I'm looking for something that'll give me an idea of maximum and 
expected real-world throughput, and a relative measure of increase/decrease in
performance with respect to individual disks.

Also, I know that the maximum partition size is 8GB, but what happens if I want 
two partitions: one consisting of 5 1.6GB striped disks, and the other consisting 
of 4 of the same. Is there any problem with this? What performance penalties, if 
any, are there?

Thanks in anticipation,

Shawn
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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: Where is xpsview?
Date: 26 Jan 93 06:45:36 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <35217@adm.brl.mil> sgi.com!pdi!shoshana@BRL.MIL (Shoshana Abrass) writes:
|   When I look at a machine that has all the inst subsystems on it, it
|   claims that xpsview is from the subsystem called "dps_eoe". However,
|   when I run inst and look at all my CDROM's, I can't find this subsystem
|   listed except on the maintenance CD (OS = 4.0.5)

You won't, unless your system was originally purchased with 4.0.1
on it.  Contact the TAC or your sales folks for more info, this was
beat to death for weeks on end almost exactly 1 year ago on comp.sys.sgi.

|   Was it left off the "update" CD and put on the maintenance CD to make 
|   up for the oversight?  Or is the base version on the development CD or 
|   somewhere else? I'm a bit wary of installing just the maintenance 
|   version of something...

You can't install the maint image if you don't have the base system.
It wasn't an oversight.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: uucp w/SupraFax modem
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:46:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: rhyolite.vcnnv9k
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <1993Jan26.232211.11996@news.csd.sgi.com>, kevinb@oblivion.csd.sgi.com (Kevin Brokaw) writes:
> 
> The problem in using Supra v32bis modems is due to uutry needing to 
> see carrier detect on the modem before it will communicate....


Whatever is happening is more complicated that that.

/usr/lib/uucp/Uutry simply runs uucico.
/usr/lib/uucp/uucio opens the port with NDELAY (given an appropriate
line in Devices), which is supposed to tell the port to not bother
waiting for DCD.

As far as I know, only the Supra is associated with this problem.
Other modems, including those programmed by /usr/lib/uucp/fix-*,
leave DCD false until carrier is finally detected, and uucico
works whether uugetty is on or not.


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
From: hollick@graphics.cis.upenn.edu (Mike Hollick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: FIT Image Format Info?
Summary: I need information
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:24:02 GMT
Organization: UPENN Computer Graphics Research Laboratory


Hello:

I have been using 'moviemaker' on series of .rgb images.  The man page
mentions that moviemaker can operate on FIT images, but I have not
been able to find any information on this format.  Moviemaker runs a
lot faster on FIT images, so I would like to create these directly.
Thanks a lot!

--> Mike




Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: bgitv@termo.unit.no (Bard Grimsmo)
Subject: Xmodmap of national character in xwsh problem.
Organization: SINTEF, The Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 14:30:16 GMT

I would like to have the following keymap:

[                 ->    [ (bracketleft)
<shift>+[         ->    { (braceleft)
<alt>+[           ->    ae (lower case Norwegian letter "ae")
<alt>+<shift>+[   ->    AE (capital Norwegian letter "AE")

I have tried this .xmodmaprc

keycode 56 = bracketleft  braceleft  ae     AE
keycode 91 = Alt_L Meta_L Mode_switch
keycode 92 = Alt_R Meta_R Mode_switch

This works as desired for csh in a xterm window, but not in a xwsh window.

I have also tried the following .xmodmaprc

keycode 56 = bracketleft  braceleft  ae     AE
keycode 92 = Mode_switch Meta_R
add mod1 = Mode_switch

This works as desired for csh in a xterm window, and also partly for a
xwsh window. However, <alt>+<shift>+[ only sends the lower case "ae",
not capital "ae in the xwsh window."

("keycode 56 = ae AE" works fine with normal unshift and shift.)

How do I make
<alt>+<shift>+[   ->    AE (capital Norwegian letter "AE")
Help is much appreciated.

Bard
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From: schmidt@dubius.cs.uiuc.edu (Andrew Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Looking for SNMP agent
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:35:43 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Comp Sci, Urbana, IL


I'd like to know if someone has a public domain SNMP 
agent for IRIX Release 4.0.1?  

I've attempted to build the CMU 2.1 toolkit, but it
is rather Sun specific.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Andrew Schmidt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc