SAM is real slow

[mike worrell]

Just installed 11.0S
SAM works great while server is up and running.
Needed to expand /usr mountpoint.
Went to Single user state and SAM is
beyond slow, took 25 minutes just to get to
the choices. Chose Disk and File Systems
and it is still "working".
ANyone know the cause/fix to this.

Thanx
Mike

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Mike,
When you are on single user mode which file system do you mount? Because sam executable is on /usr. And you can't extend logical volume while it is active unless you are using Veritas file system. And you are running sam means you have /usr mounted (active).
The best way to do this is from command line.

Say your /usr is on lvol4 and you want to increase by 100MB.
lvextend -L 100 /dev/vg01/lvol4

Sachin

[Joseph C. Denman]

You can't use sam to extend /usr

1. Boot single user
2. Say user is on lvol3
lvextend -L {NEW_SIZE_IN_MB} /dev/vg00/lvol3
3. reboot

...jcd...

[mike worrell]

thanx, I forgot about that.
but any ideas while sam is so slow,
our 10.2 boxes , sam is just as quick in
su state as it is up..
any ideas?

[Brian Markus]

You don't need to go down to Single user to extend /usr if you have online jfs installed. Check to see if you have the fsadm tool on your box.

fsadm -F vxfs -b 1000m /usr

that will increase the size of the mount point with out unmounting and going to single user.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi Mike

I belive your SAM speed problem in single users mode is that your 10.20 disks are HFS. Whereas on 11.00 only /stand is hfs as at initial boot time HP-UX does not understand VxFS.

Paula