From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 16:20:28 EDT
if you can check the switch port he's on, make sure it agrees in terms
of speed/duplex with what the aix box thinks it's set to. you can check
on the switch for errors, as well.
cbaker@GOODYEAR.COM wrote:
>Folks,
>
>I have a 44P-170 (AIX 433) that just this week has been dragging. The user is doing code development on it and cannot get a make done
>in less that 1 hour. (The same make takes less that 5 minutes on a similar box and on this box two weeks ago.)
>
>Seems like anything that touches/interacts with NFS filesystems off of one of our three NFS servers is extremely slow.
>
>While he is running these compilations or anything else that takes a little resources, all other windows/commands freeze and an
>"iostat 1" shows "% iowait" jumping up to nearly 100%. When I run monitor or topas while he is compiling, I see that some activity
>happens, then a 1-5 minute pause where iowait jumps to 100%, then a few seconds of normal activity, then back to 100% iowait.
>
>No errors in errpt.
>No errors in diag
>Can ping the NFS servers just fine
>Don't see anything obvious in iostat, nfsstat or netstat
>Other clients that mount the same filesystems off the same NFS servers - No problem
>Paging space is fine.
>
>BUT:
>
>Try to cp files from /tmp to an NFS filesystem .... Hangs sometimes
>Try running "ls -laF" against one of the NFS directories .... Hangs sometimes, sometimes not.
>I have rebooted the box two times. Noted that the reboot never finishes... Have to hit the white or yellow button
>
>
>Any thoughts would be great.
>
>
>Christopher M. Baker
>Senior Technical Support Analyst
>DSE/TCO
>Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
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