I NEED AN UPGRADE ON OPENSERVER5

[sixpun]

HI GUYS,

I HAVE OPENSERVER 5 RUNNING ON PENTIUM 2 MACHINE WITH
64MB OF RAM...BUT IM NOT REALLY SURE. CAN I RUN lsmem at the prompt. IM AM MORE FAMILIAR WITH AIX.
MY SECOND QUESTION IS THE HAVE A C/CON BOX CONNECTED TO
THIS SERVER FOR THEIR SERIAL TTY'S. THEY HAVE 9 USERS &
ARE EXPIRENCING SLOWNESS. WHAT CAN I DO? IS THERE AN
UPGRADE. I BELEIVE MEMORY CAN BE ON THIS MACHINE TO 128 BUT
WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT THE PROCESSOR. IM LOOKING TO TRY TO
GET THEM TO PENTIUM4. IS THIS JUST A BOARD SWAP?
ANY SUGGESTIONS ARE GREATLY APRECIATED.
I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP THE HARDDRIVE BUT UPGRADE MEMORY &
PROCESSOR..ALSO IT WOULD NEED TO SUPPORT THE C/CON BOX AS WELL.
THANKS

 

[Annihilannic]

hw -r mem will tell you how much memory is in the system. So will /etc/memsize.

hw -r cpu will tell take a guess at your CPU speed, but may not be very accurate.

If you can tell us what CPU you have we may be able to guide you on upgrade options. You will not be able to upgrade to a Pentium IV however, this does require a board swap due to the different slot types used, etc.

If you can also provide the make and model of the machine it would help. Annihilannic.

 

[itcamefrommars]

Do a 'uname -X' to get the full version (or is it 5.0.0)
the newest version is 5.0.6... and we have run into some issues upgrading depending on combinations of the
1 Processor Generation
2 Version of SCO
3 SCSI adapters
not that's it's impossible... just some combo's have caused headaches on upgrades.

Usually anyhow... we do fresh installs of new versions and just restore the applications and data.

And i'm not familiar with the C/CON box..(is that a brand name)...
but I can tell you that some multiport boards that work on older versions of OpenServer5 won't run on newer versions.
Like the Arnet Clusterports ran on 5.0.4 but not 5.0.5.

Give as many specifics as you can about the existing system.


P.S. Freindly note.... please don't type in all CAPS.
It makes it hard to read and sometimes people just won't read it.

 

[stanhubble]

The C/CON box will most likely be a digiboard serial port module.

Before you go jumping headlong into a hardware upgrade, find out first what the problem is.

What part of the system is slow? Has something in the configuration/use changed?
Is it cpu bound?
i/o ?
swapping memory?
bad kernel tuning?

sar is a very useful tool. use it.
u386mon is also very useful.

Once you know where the bottleneck is you can get the appropriate hardware upgrade/ software config that will solve your users problem.