Re: Why my system WAS so sluggish!

["Neil Palmer" <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe we need to replace these bunnies every Easter !  ;-)

...Neil





"Rick Rayburn" <the400man@hotmail.com>



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        Subject:        Re: Why my system WAS so sluggish!


Yes Neil, it made 1 entry in the problem log but of course there was no
way
to identify the loss of bunny!


>
>So it slowed down because an Energizer Bunny ran low ?  ;-)
>It made no entry in the problem log (WRKPRB) for this event ?
>
>...Neil
>

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>         Subject:        Why my system WAS so sluggish!
>
>
>Thanks to everyone who contributed their thoughts and information to this
>thread. The 400 community is a great "nation" of people and, as we all
>know,
>the 400 is a damn good box to make a living with...now if we can only
>convince IBM!
>
>The reason for my sluggishness turned out to be a bad battery attached to
>one of the I/O cards. There was a message logged in QHST informing of a
>damaged I/O card but alas, it was only 2 lines and no more! So if you
>scrolled past it as I initially did...Too bad that message is not
repeated
>as happens when an ASP threshhold percentage is being challenged. Boy,
did
>it slow us down and it appears as if there was absolutely ZERO reflection
>of
>this within the software tools IBM has provided us. Still, I wouldn't
>trade
>in my career on the 400 for any other box and with all of the talented
>people in our user group, nothing can escape us for too long!
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Rick Rayburn