> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Steven Casagrande [SMTP:steve_casagrande@BE.IBM.COM]
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 11. August 1998 13:48
> An: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> Betreff: Problem with MLM - conflict with 'portmap'?
>
> Hello,
>
> We are using the Netview MLM on our system, and whenever we start up
> midmand, it destroys NFS performance on the system. We've traced it
> to one possibility: a possible conflict between 'portmap' and
> 'midmand'. Using 'lsof', we found portmap and midmand both using
> UDP:*.* (whatever port *that* is...), and when this happens, the
> biods (NFS client daemons) don't use any CPU, and NFS performance is
> terrible (several seconds for a 'df', for example). Killing midmand
> clears up the problem.
>
> I suspect that the UDP:*.* port is being fought over by midmand and
> portmap (which acts as a broker for rpc services, including NFS).
> Then, when packets get grabbed by midmand, the portmap never sees
> them, and we're in a timeout condition for the NFS application. The
> bad performance seems random (sometimes it's OK), which might indicate
> that the midmand was off doing something else, and the portman had a
> chance to get at the socket.
>
> Has anyone else seen this problem? Any ideas for a work-around?
>
> FYI: AIX 4.1.5.0, mlm 2.3.0.0.U445257, RS/6k-380/192MB RAM/584MB Swap,
> very lightly loaded (just us chickens!).
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Steve Casagrande
> IBM Belgium
> Steve_Casagrande@be.ibm.com
> +32-3-897-2550
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Hello,
yes, we saw a similiar problem after migration from NV 4.1 with
MLM-Products to NV 5.
The performance went down dramiticly on our AIX-Nodes. After
stopping the MLM-
Products (MLM,SLM and SIA) and deleting them the problems has
gone.
The monitoring of our AIX-nodes we are doing now with TME10 DM
3.5 without any
performance-problem.
What now we cannot use are the private MIB-variables. We can
live with this
ristriction.
Gerd Brunschede
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
Abteilung HIK
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Tel: +49 7247 82-5637
Fax: +49 7247 82-4972
e-mail: brunschede@hik.fzk.de
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