[Info-vax] Sudden problems with slow sftp transfers and slow disk accesses

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <7eae9cdd-98fe-4349-bce5-d696aa641ead at googlegroups.com>,
gwilliams at cfa.harvard.edu writes: 

> Cluster of 8 Alpha boxes running V8.3 + patches, recently moved
> from one building to another.  Since the move, we've been experiencing
> odd behaviors: very slow network access (via sftp) and slow disk IO.

> Image activation is slow.  It can take several seconds to begin
> running an .exe stored on the shadow set.  

What about network processes which don't transfer much data, say

   SYSMAN> DO SHOW TIME

If they are also slow, then my guess would be a bad network card.  Post 
details on what network traffic is on which network card.  Perhaps all 
(cluster, TCPIP, DECnet,...) is all on one card?