Re: {bb} BBDISPLAY optimization?

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <s1348c99.031@comrcm01intgwia.mandtbank.com> "PAUL WILLIAMSON" <pwilliamson@mandtbank.com> writes:

>I have a mixture of AIX and linux boxen.  The AIX boxen 
>have a mix of problems [...}  The DISPLAY is an AIX machine, 
>as well as the one BBNET server, both of which I'm having 
>problems with.  The linux machines I have are happily running 
>along without issue.

>The load on the display box (p610, 512mb ram) is typically around 
>1.0.  The load on the one BBNET box is typically ~3.5.  I may go 
>ahead and apply bbgen only on the display server.  It sounds 
>like it is fairly harmless.

OK, although from the load it sounds like the bigger problem was on 
your BBNET box.

>Throughout all this, I realized that pinging always works.  It's all 
>the other network/port tests that turn purple.  

>I'm still having the problem with the display, but I think the 
>bbnet issue is solved.  It turns out that of the 20 or so dns servers 
>we have on our network, about 40% of them could not resolve 
>themselves.  We are in the midst of a dns changeover, so 
>I think this is probably a related issue.

OK, that does make sense. The standard BB "ping" test is done based
on the IP-address in the bb-hosts file - so it runs fine whether your
DNS works or not. All of the other BB network tests use the hostname,
however, so if your DNS is hosed then those tests will surely fail.


Regards,
Henrik
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