Re: Why my system WAS so sluggish!

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good grief!  No way!  Dead batteries in an I/O card caused your system's 
performance to degrade?  Why are there batteries in an I/O card?  Is it saving 
information when the system is powered down?

Sheesh, I guess we'll have to replace *all* the batteries in our AS/400 on a 
yearly schedule then.  Maybe I'll write an app to monitor for those messages.

Wow.

- Dan Bale
offsite today

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Rick Rayburn" <the400man@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date:  Fri, 05 Apr 2002 07:39:37 -0500

>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