Misc Q's about SCO's ODT
Dave Shepperd
shepperd at dms.UUCP
Fri Oct 27 05:32:28 AEST 1989
I haven't gotten any messages in the sco.opendesktop group for weeks.
This might be because our connection doesn't work anymore, so I cross
posted to comp.unix.xenix in the hopes that some of the readers there
are currently using SCO's ODT.
1) Who is responsible for the message "KERNEL: allocq: out of queues"
Which que ran out? Is this the STREAMS que?
2) What happened to sw? The sar utility is neat but there is
no option to see what's happening with the streams parameters,
yet TCP and NFS say to keep an eye on the streams parameters
and adjust them accordingly.
3) What does one do about NFS lockups? The system defaults to
reporting disk usage at login (I have since removed it)
which would hang one's login (even root) if an NFS
directory was mounted but NFS was stuck for whatever
reason. Why does /etc/nfs start|stop do an su to root
(which waits for the root password to be typed but
without a prompt) even if it is run from root already?
4) How do you crash a stuck system such that a post mortem can
be performed on the corpse? How does one crash a stuck
system without destroying the filesystems? Pressing
reset leaves no evidence of why the system was stuck
and the fsck that runs on the subsequent boot may
report 100's of errors in the filesystems (but never
any filenames, grrrr). The fsck info zips by on the
screen faster than one can read it. Can it be placed
in a file so one might have a hope in hell of finding
and correcting the errors (such as restoring the files
that fsck deletes or otherwise wipes out)?
5) What does one do about PANIC messages that are more than
24 lines? It has happened once while I was playing with
a device driver that the system panic halted but most
of the panic message (the most useful part, naturally)
scrolled off the top of the screen. Nope, the message
was not placed in /usr/adm/messages.
6) Where is the password file? Specifically, we don't want to
use the C2 security level and we want to be able to
reuse usernames/uid's. The system apparently won't
let us do that anymore.
7) Who, what, when, where or why does the message "no more
procs" show up when trying to open an xterm window.
(xterm: error 23, errno 11: no more processes).
The number of system process slots is no where near
used up (maybe used 30-40 out of 75), there are
no more than about 4 pttys used according to ps,
but there's 16 /dev/ttyp0x's and 8 /dev/ttypx's.
Other X clients will start up, only xterm fails.
--
Dave Shepperd. shepperd at dms.UUCP or motcsd!dms!shepperd
Atari Games Corporation, 675 Sycamore Drive, Milpitas CA 95035.
When it comes time to collect the wages of sin, some of ue will
get time and a half. -- Flip Wilson
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