Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!rex!ukma!uflorida!haven!umbc3!tron!kerr 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 Lines: 23 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. -- Dave Kerr (301) 765-4453 kerr%tron.UUCP@umbc3.UMBC.EDU from an Internet site kerr@tron.UUCP from a smart uucp mailer {well-connected-site}!netsys!tron!kerr from a dumb uucp mailer