Performance Meter errors

Bachmann, Carl (cbachm@biochem.swmed.edu)
Fri, 8 May 1998 08:47:29 -0500

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.

Any input will be most appreciated.
Carl

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cbachm@biochem.swmed.edu
Department of Biochemistry
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX 75235