RE: full, backed-up logs causing slowdown?

If you started the engine with the tape set to /dev/null then the logs are being backup continuously by default. Therefore I suspect the 50% logs full is a bit of a herring rouge so I'd look elsewhere Paul Watson # WF Software Ltd # All answers are Tel: +44 1436 674729 # pure fantasy Fax: +44 1436 678693 # www.wfsoftware.com # > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Kormann [mailto:joseph.kormann@lmco.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 6:06 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: full, backed-up logs causing slowdown? > > > Hello. Sun Solaris Workstations running Informix 7.x. The logs (15 of > them) are being automatically being backed up using "ontape -c" to > /dev/null. > > We have a user reporting that when less than 1/2 the logs are > 100% full > (and backed up), the system runs very, very well. When more > than 1/2 the > logs are 100% full (and backed up), the system slows down. We can't > figure out why this is happening. Any suggestions? > > Thank you. > -- > Joseph Kormann > Joseph.Kormann@lmco.com > Ph:732/450-7126 Fx:732/450-7153 > "Heaven is a half-pipe!" - OPM > ********************************************************************** The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user(S) of the mail address(es) to which it was sent and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of it, or any part of it, in any form whatsoever, and any actions taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. **********************************************************************