Vickie Timms, John Beckett, and Evan wrote:
 
>>> When I first started working with the hp3000's, I was told to never
power
>>> off the console.  'They' said if the messages could not display on the
>>> screen, they would fill up the buffer and eventually bring the system
>>> down.  Being the good girl that I am...I never tested to see if this was
>>> correct.
>>> #1 Is this correct information
>>> #2 does it still apply?
 
>>Executive summary: Yes to #1, No to #2.
[....SNIP....]
 
>I've found that if the console on my 957 is disconnected/shut off long
>enough then it takes a real looonnnng time for user's logons to complete.
 
Nobody has turned off the console or etc. on our 957
since we went to 5.0, so we haven't confirmed this
might still be a problem.  But I'm thinking Evan is
correct, and results can still be less than optimum.
 
Can anyone from HP tell us just how this really works
now (or at least is theoretically supposed to work) ??
 
BTW, note that besides powering off the console and
typing a CTRL-S, a couple other sneaky ways to get the
system to slow down and die was for someone to walk
by and hit the STOP key or the REMOTE MODE softkey
on the console.  These are harder to notice than no power
but have (or at least used to have) the same effect.  We
had a couple instances pre-5.0 where the console
message buffer backup got bad enough that you
couldn't even do CTRL-A on the console;  had to do
a CTRL-B followed by a RS..................
 
Ken Sletten