Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

2488.0. "Slow login from pause window" by TELFON::MAILMAN (Steve Mailman) Wed Mar 21 1990 12:30

   Since upgrading to VMS V5.3 and addition of GPX (to VAXstation
   II world box) I have been experiencing very slow login from
   pause window.
   
   During the night, mail or some decnet operation will write to
   OPA0.  This seems to hold up all X activity.  Why?
   
   In the morning I hit CTRL-F2.  I get the top part of screen back
   and lots of disk activity for 10 to 20 seconds including lots
   of bells which I assume is mail notifications.  After disk
   activity has stopped for afew seconds, I type my password and
   hit RETURN.  From time I hit RETURN, it takes another 10 to 20
   seconds for the OK button to light up and another few seconds
   for pause window to disappear!  
   
   I have run autogen since upgrade to 5.3.
   
   Thanks
   /steve

	So look at SYLOGICALS.COM to see how to suppress all that stuff or
	do what I do at the end of my SYSTARTUP_V5.COM.


	$...
	$ DEFINE/USER SYS$COMMAND OPA0:
	$ REPLY/DISABLE
	$ EXIT

							mike

    I don't know why the big pause, but I can imagine that the server has
    been hung all night and it might be still servicing a whole bunch of
    stuff that the clients have queued up while it was hung.
    
    Burns
    

    
    The long pause is because all of the text cursor blinking events have
    piled up.   
    
    To work around this problem you either need to disable the console as
    mentioned in the previous reply, or you could disable the cursor
    blinking by adding a resource to your resource files.   
    
    The resource name is 
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