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"Craig M. Lalley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Craig M. Lalley
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Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:54:11 -0600
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Everyone,

I am seeing a strange situation,  (MPE/iX 6.5 PP2)

:showproc 292;tree
QPRI  CPUTIME   STATE  JOBNUM  PIN  (PROGRAM) STEP

C152  0:00.807  WAIT   S182    292  (VTSERVER.NET.SYS)   ķU

If you look at the pin in SOS or GLANCE it has (had) a father process,
pin 598.  But if I try to look at the father process the system says
that the father process has died.

The session is still alive (not active) and can be aborted.

The real concern is that these orphaned processes are using in some
cases 700MB of memory.  Most of the orphaned process are using only
~100MB.

This seems to happen frequently throughout the day. They do seem to
clean themselves up over time, not sure how long it takes though.

In the system log files I am seeing low level I/O errors corresponding
to virtual terminal devices.

Is this a network issue? Here is a copy of LINKCONTROL

Linkname: ELANLINK  Linktype: IEEE8023  Linkstate: CONNECTED           
Physical Path:              0/28/20
Current Station Address:    08-00-09-D4-B9-FA
Default Station Address:    08-00-09-D4-B9-FA
Current Receive Filter:     broad(1) any(0) k_pckts(1) x_pckts(0)
Current Multicast Addresses:
 09-00-09-00-00-01
Transmits no error     29417813  Receives no error     16791479
Transmit byte count     4921617  Receive byte count  2128260209
Transmits error               0  Receives error               0
Transmits deferred       102033  Carrier losses               0

****** Strange to have transmit deferred on a switch port.

Transmits 1 retry          7435  CRC errors                   0  

****** Why are there reties on a switch port?

Transmits >1 retry         2688  Frame losses                 0
Trans 16 collisions           0  Whole byte errors            0
Trans late collision          0  Size range errors            0
802 chip restarts             0  Receives dropped             0
Heartbeat losses              0  Receives broadcast     1452820
                                 Receives multicast         305
  
Linkname: LNK100A   Linktype: 100BT     Linkstate: CONNECTED           
Physical Path:              2/28/48
Current Station Address:    00-10-83-18-A7-0B
Default Station Address:    00-10-83-18-A7-0B
Current Multicast Addresses:
 09-00-09-00-00-01
  
Transmit bytes         3931823018    Receive bytes             836216676
Transmits                 6910740    Receives                    4891766
Transmits no error        6910740    Receives broadcast           185560
Transmits dropped               0    Receives multicast             1391
Transmits deferred              0    Receives no error           5808662
Transmits 1 retry               0    CRC or Maxsize error              0
Transmits >1 retry              0    Code or Align error               0
Trans 16 collisions             0    Recv dropped: addr           729945

**********  That seems like a lot of packet loss.  Any ideas?

Trans late collision            0    Recv dropped: buffer              0
Trans underruns                 0    Recv dropped: dma                 0
Carrier losses                  0    Recv dropped: other               0
Link disconnects                0    Recv deferred                     0
Link speed                    100    Recv overruns                     0
Link duplex                  Full    Link auto sensed                 No
Link mode              100Base-TX    Secs since clear             365005

Has anyone else seen this trick?

Is this a network issue?

Is this an O/S issue being aggravated by a network issue?

Any ideas and thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,


Craig M. Lalley

Systems Performance Specialist
Lund Performance Solutions
Phone (541) 812-7600 | Email [log in to unmask]
Fax (425) 920-4995| Web www.lund.com

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