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Re: (ASCEND) Newbie Question (diagnostics mode?)



At 03:56 PM 2/27/98 +0100, Manfred Kwiatkowski wrote:
>"Kevin A. Smith" <kevin@ascend.com> writes:
>> 
>> At 06:00 PM 2/26/98 +0100, Manfred Kwiatkowski wrote:
>> >
>> >And if a modem disconnects you may not see any output either.
>> >On our MAXens only about 10% of the hangups will result in a debug
>> >qutput.
>> 
>> I presume you're running versions pre 5.0Ap36? As this was fixed in
>> 5.0Ap36, now all disconnections should be printed to the diagnostic
>> output.
>
>Ok, I will have to admit 5.0Ap36 ist far better than e.g. 5.0Ap13
>but 'all' is overly optimistic. From a 10 minutes log:
>
>bronto:/home/kwia4000% egrep DTR_DROP XtermLog.a0105 | wc -l
>      39
>bronto:/home/kwia4000% egrep 'AT\&V1' XtermLog.a0105 | wc -l
>      37
>bronto:/home/kwia4000% egrep 'TERMINATION REASON' XtermLog.a0105 | wc -l
>      23
>
>(May be dependend on load, uptime, hardware revisions and phase of the moon)

You may also want to grep for "data lost" messages when the system is busy.
Debug is the lowest priority, so when other resources are keeping the MAX
working
it will often drop debug messages and output "data lost" to the debug session.


Kevin


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