In article <1995Jul17.113649@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Dennis S.
Keeler) writes:
>         What's making the Vax move so slow today? WHO says we only have 52
> users. But I've seen the Alpha run faster with a load more than twice as
high.
> Perhaps someone is trying to calculate Pi to infinite precision. :)
>         It now takes a few seconds to get into the editor, mail, or news. And
> it takes about five seconds to load each individual news post from
> nntp.muohio.edu.
>         I hope nothing is majorly wrong. It just surprises me to see this
> behavior in the summer time.
 
The NEWS server was having some performance problems yesterday.  That would
account for the slowness of NEWS.
 
As to the slowness on the MIAVX1 system, I'm not aware of any problems (and
didn't notice much of a slowdown).  We were running some fairly heavy jobs
yesterday, but they shouldn't have affected user performance significantly.
I'll keep an eye on it, though.
 
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                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
                                     Miami Computing and Information Services
                                     Miami University, Oxford, OH
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