HPuX on Integrity rx 1600

[Marius Pana_1]

Hi all,

Ive just installed HPuX 11iv2 on an Integrity rx 1600 server and it is extremly slow. Starting sendmail takes about 12 minutes. Some of the other processes start extremly slow as well including some of the SNMPagents. It does eventually get to the login prompt and I can log-in but starting SAM takes forever. I gave up after waiting for about 20 minutes and rebooted.

I am coming over from the Linux community and this is my first HPuX installation. The installation itself was simple as I choose the guided installation.

Does anyone have any ideas on what could be the problem? Do I need to recompile the kernel with drivers? Thanks,

//Marius

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

Marius,

No thats the speed of HPUX....








ONLY JOKING!

My first guess would be to check that DNS is being resolved correctly - very slow systems are often caused by this... Try temporarily changing your /etc/nsswitch.conf file to files only (there should be a template in /etc I think called /etc/nsswitch.files - rename to /etc/nsswitch.conf and see if that helps)

HTH

Duncan

[Bernhard Mueller]

Marius,

you should check all network related things,
such as default gateway, NFS and NIS settings etc, (default dir for config files is /etc/rc.config.d)
you mention sendmail and SNMP and this is a clear indicator that the system is desperately trying to find something on the net which cannot be found or answered

check /etc/rc.log file as a first step,
then use netstat and so on.

HTH
Regards,
Bernhard

[Marius Pana_1]

Thanks for the response guys. My problem was network related sure enough. I modified nsswitch.conf and now it is working. Thanks again.