1 INFO-VAX	Sun, 14 Mar 2004	Volume 2004 : Issue 145       Contents: Re: EVA disk storage Re: Hang Time: 15 minutes   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------    Date: 13 Mar 2004 15:09:57 -0600+ From: young_r@encompasserve.org (Rob Young)  Subject: Re: EVA disk storage 3 Message-ID: <uTntML7pX8rF@eisner.encompasserve.org>   _ In article <bAu4c.8156$4B1.3272@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>, "Mike Naime" <mnaime@kc.rr.com> writes:  >   @ > I also found out that Phil is stuck dealing with a third partyJ > vendor that is trying to blame VMS as the problem.  If this is a re-soldM > dot-bomb storage array, it could have been configured for a SUN box, and it K > will never work without the proper configuration tool to change the OS on A > the storage ports.  (According to the EMC SE I talked to today)   ? 	But in another post I've mentioned that it is either a Symm or > 	a DMX.  I don't know anyone running EMC high-end gear withoutA 	proper support from EMC.  If it isn't either of those two boxes, B 	it won't work.  If it is one of those two and he doesn't have EMC 	support, he needs to get it.    > Rob:  You are an end user.      / 	Sure - aren't we all users of various systems?   H 	I've created a fair share of LUNs and zoned them out to hosts.  Mostly  	created a storage strategy.  1 > This is the type of acknowledgement that we are E > looking for.  You could care less if I bought HP or Hitachi or EMC.   ; 	Well - not really.  As mentioned in reply in another post, ? 	depends on what you are after.  Some solutions make a lot more  	sense than others.  ref:   Z http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=NhSle85yJTZg%40eisner.encompasserve.org&output=gplain  H 	Part of our strategy is to go in a certain direction.  Supporting that E 	strategy can be a lot of effort (baseline, business drivers, goals,  8 	architecture, software, switches, backup/restore, etc.)   				Rob    ------------------------------  # Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:14:44 GMT & From: Don Sykes <paladin@mydomain.com>" Subject: Re: Hang Time: 15 minutes< Message-ID: <8RK4c.9798$fi3.6267@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com>   JF Mezei wrote:   A > There is one message which I *think* doesn't got operator log:   > 0 > The dreaded "page file is getting fragmented". > L > What is possible is that your system didn't hang, but it became as slow asL > molasses for any process that needed new memory/paging. This might explainO > that some processes coudl still write some entries to the operatr log. It may K > have unjammed when one process that was a memory hog completed, releasing J > plenty of memory and allowing other processes to resume at normal speed. > H > During that time, did you do SHOW MEM to take a look at your page file > utilisation ?   I I'm not the SYS Admin of those systems. I'm responsible only for all the  I low-level application code. I doubt the fellow who was there was able to  H do a SHOW MEM. But I thought the page file is allocated as a contiguous ) file? If so, how would it get fragmented?    --     Have VMS, Will Travel  Wire paladin, San Francisco    (paladinATalphaseDOTcom)   ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2004.145 ************************