Ever since I've upgraded to Digital UNIX v3.2 I've been experiencing
problems with machines crawling along.
At first I thought this was related to linking, but I've just re-installed
V3.2 on an Alpha 2100, I had previously upgraded but had a few minor
problems and went for a full install. Ever since the machine will go
incredibly slow for a few minutes before returning to normal.
I've loaded up monitor and this tells me that 99% of the CPU time is being
allocated to sys. This would explain it going slow, so I've loaded up top
but apart from telling me the average load is around 20 (!) there's no
report of any process taking more than 5% of the CPU time.
I'm now at a loss to know how to track it down further, so my questions are
1) Any ideas on how to track what's stealing all the cpu time.
2) Anyone else got a similar problem, or is it a known problem.
Perhaps I should mention none of the users are doing anything extra to the
work form before, so I'm assuming in must be Operating System related.
Simon Monday
Logica UK
e-mail: mondays_at_logica.com
TEL: +44 1372 227046
FAX; +44 1372 227009
Received on Wed Jul 19 1995 - 11:56:13 NZST