Yesterday, I started running the Polycenter Performance Advisor on my Alpha
2100, Digital Unix 3.2g system.
During the night, two of my RZ28M-VA drives hanging off of an HSZ40 bit the
dust. Luckily, one was mirrored, and it fell over to the mirror drive just
like it should. The other drive, 1 of a 3 set stripe, was totally gone, and
even the HSZ40 said it wasn't there. Replacements are on their way now.
The question is, has the Performance Advisor caused anything similar to
happen to other folks? In general, do other people even use it, and if so,
do you find it worthwhile?
For what it's worth, the advisor has given me some useful advice in the day
I've had it running. I was being too stingy with ubc-maxpercent (was 20, now
50), and it told me so. It also told me about hard errors on the drives. Heh.
P.S. Should I be using DecEvent on this 3.2g system? Or is that only for
4.x?
Thank you.
--
John P. Speno, speno_at_swarthmore.edu, Swarthmore College Computing Center
"There is no wisdom greater than kindness."
Received on Fri Feb 28 1997 - 17:36:37 NZDT