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From: kerr@tron.UUCP (Dave Kerr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: DOMAIN_OS 10.1 accounting problem
Keywords: accounting
Message-ID: <433@tron.UUCP>
Date: 12 Aug 89 17:38:20 GMT
References: <2262@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: kerr@tron.UMD.EDU (Dave Kerr)
Organization: Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, Baltimore, MD
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In article <2262@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> liu@alpha.ece.jhu.edu writes:
>
>We have a DN4000 running BSD4.3 under DOMAIN_OS 10.1. For some unknown
>reason, whenever the accounting is turned on (by "/etc/accton
>/usr/adm/acct"), the system is badly slowed down -- from time to time, one
>has to wait for ten seconds before getting the prompt back. Normally, there
>are only two or three users on the system and no one is really taking too
>much CPU time. And the size of /usr/adm/acct does not increase very rapidly.
>Any one out there knows the reason for this problem and the way to fix it?
>

Is this a stand alone node? If so try turning network
services off (via the netsvc command). We noticed a similar
problem. It appeared that the node was trying to query a
non-existant network and the node was slowing down waiting
for the request to time out. Disabling network services
restored the node to normal. 

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Dave Kerr (301) 765-4453
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