10.2 running very slow

[Phillip Popp]

Hi All,
I have a weird problem I can not quite find the cause of. I am running 10.2 on a 745 box.
Every thing runs extremly slow. The hard drive was up around 97% and I brought it down to 87%, but it made no difference. I went into sam and looked at the processes taking up CPU time and it was 99% idle. Is there any way to check the memory, to see if there are any physical issues with it? I was told that this box was functioning at one time and was just not used for a while, but did function last time it was used.
Every thing seems to function correctly, it is just extremly slow. Like going into Sam: I log in and it takes a good two minutes or more for the main screen to come up. Only other thing wrong that I am told, is when it is rebooted, it does not go into the HP VUE mode. Not sure exactly what it does, do not believe it fails any of the system check's. i am running it remotle through telnet (which again is outrageously slow logging into). I had the person onsite do a control break to go into single user mode, from there I telented in.

Any ideas on where to look and how to diagnose this problem. I am still new to HP UNIX admin stuff yet.

Thanks for all the help, this site is a god send, for people just starting out.

Phil

[steve_586 · Accepted solution]

Hi Phil,

Is the server as slow when running these commands from the console? I ususally do this first just to eliminate a networking issue. Anything in the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file?

Regards

[Phillip Popp]

Hi Steve,
Thanks for responding. I have a call into the person onsite (it's tough this time of season, to know peoples schedules).
I believe he was seeing the same issues at the console. Not that I am ruling out the network, but I have another box on the same remote network site and it is fine. Like the novice I am, In my haste cleaning up the log files I cleaned up syslog, so I don't know how much there is to see in there. What would I look fore in there? Would you expect an error message and would that type of message repeat every so often?

Thanks,

Phil

[Marcel Burggraeve]

I would certainly not rule out the netwerk or maybe I should say the network settings.
I would start with checking all network and related settings :
/etc/hosts (hosts and their ip)
/etc/resolv.conf (dns servers and default domain)
/etc/nsswitch.conf (search order for hosts and such)
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf (ip configuration including gateway)
Besides those, also check if your network config is the same on both sides (switch and system)
Both should be on auto or both should be fixed to the same speed and duplex.

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi Phil,

I would also check the state of vg00...
Are you with mirrored disks? any stale lv?

All the best
Victor