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- From: JOAOLSD@vm1.sdi.uam.es (Joao Luis Silva Damas)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: RS6000 almost stops with heavy disk access.
- Message-ID: <199211171808.AA15477@cc.ysu.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 23:58:47 GMT
- Sender: JOAOLSD@vm1.sdi.uam.es
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- Hi,
- we have two rs6000 (a 320H and 340) being used by different kinds of users.
- Some of them do large molecular calculations which create HUGE (600-700 MB) tem
- porary files for the molecular integrals. When their program begins writing the
- se huge files and then reading them as needed, our machines almost stop and oth
- er users are almost unable to use the system. The slowness means 30-60 sec to l
- ogon, 1 minute for X windows to create a new window, a long time for even an ls
- , etc. Most other users do a lot of editing so they actually need better respon
- se time from the machine.
- Is there anyway to correct this situation (besides killing those huge calculati
- ons, of course)?
- Thanks for your answers,
- Joao Damas
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