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- From: JRowe@cen.ex.ac.uk (J.Rowe)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: RS6000 almost stops with heavy disk access.
- Message-ID: <Bxz81p.KMA@cen.ex.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:44:12 GMT
- References: <199211171808.AA15477@cc.ysu.edu> <1992Nov19.070106.8255@cactus.org>
- Sender: JRowe@cen.ex.ac.uk (J.Rowe)
- Organization: Computer Unit. - University of Exeter. UK
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- In-Reply-To: chukran@cactus.org's message of 19 Nov 92 07:01:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.070106.8255@cactus.org> chukran@cactus.org (Rudy E. Chukran) writes:
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- > Lower the priority of the cruncher programs with nice or renice.
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- Unlikely to help very much. IO won't be effected and the crunchers will
- just slurp up any spare cpu time. You're not competing for cpu but IO.
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- > Look into using the I/O write queue length limitation feature. Ther is
- > a panel in SMIT to do this. However, describing how to do it here is quite
- > difficult. Id suggest playing with some nonzero values and see if that
- > helps.
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- This sounds very interesting. Roughly how do I get to this panel?
- I can't see it on my 3.1.5 system and I certainly would like to!
- Alternatively, what's the command name?
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- John Rowe
- Dept Physics
- Exeter University
- UK
-