Oooh oooh I think I figured it out, thanks in part to a hint from Wyell.
Someone tell me if I'm wrong.

6.5 now uses STM
if I shutdown my network, STM stops
if I don't restart STM (through some poorly documented trickery) it stays
stopped
SYSINFO uses STM to get its information
if STM is stopped, SYSINFO gets stuck in a loop (or something like that)

At least, restarting STM made SYSINFO work for me.  Is anyone able to
confirm my scenario?

Thanks all,

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: John Burke [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 2:11 PM
To: 'Gary Jackson'; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] speaking of SYSINFO



I don't know about 6.5, but if you did that on 5.5 and the system was
heavily loaded, you would be doing a START NORECOVERY now. I think MEM is
the culprit. What version does SYSINFO claim?

John Burke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Jackson [ mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ]
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 2:00 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] speaking of SYSINFO
>
>
> Has anyone had trouble running SYSINFO on 6.5?  I have a
> customer with a
> 979/100 running 6.5 PP1.  When I run SYSINFO I get the header
> so I type in
> an A for all information.  I get no feed back, hit break &
> abort and find
> that I have wracked up a bunch of CPU seconds.  Any similar
> experiences?
>
> Gary Jackson
> QSS
>