> While looking for the cause of very slow rebooting (Solaris 2.6/VNMR5.3B)
> and logins I found that all workstations (4) attached to Varian consoles
> (Mercury, Unity) displayed error levels closely tracking the packet levels
> as estimated using Sun's Performance meter. Errors on other workstations on
> the same or different subnets are zero (and flat line). A call to Varian
> revealed that this was NOT true for any of the workstations attached to
> consoles there. I can't say whether this actually affects performance any,
> but I can say "not dramatically" or we would have picked it up sooner. It
> is not the source of the original booting and login problem which manifested
> itself on the Mercury system.
>
Carl,
This may have nothing to do with your problem, but we were having trouble
with slow logins etc (Solaris 2.51). Finally one day, the root partition
was filled to 100% for no obvious reason. I finally tracked down that
files related to the "ToolTalk Database Server" had grown to the point
of filling the disk. I disabled rpc.ttdbserverd in /etc/inetd.conf and
deleted the big files in /TT_DB. I don't understand what Tool Talk is
good for, but the system seems much happier without it.
--Mike
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