In article <1995Oct8.111723@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (John B Harlan) writes:
>
> In article <1995Oct7.050537@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Bob
> Williams) asked:
>> Why does the system slow down to such a crawl in the early morning/late
>> night hours? There may only be 25-30 users on, but the speed is reminiscant
>> of when there are 140+ people on. Is it because there are night-time
>> scripts running, like the backup? Are there that many that is slows it down
>> that much? BTW, I am talking about the Alpha here, not that crazy IBM....
>
> I'll leave a more definitive answer to Kent Covert of MCIS Technical Support,
> but yes, there are overnight jobs that run on MiaVX1, most notably the daily
> update of the Miami University Directory (PHonebook) database.
 
There are overnight jobs that run on the system, but they shouldn't be
significant enough to cause a system slowdown.  There was a problem on the
system on Saturday/Sunday that was causing the system to be EXTREMELY slow.
There were about 10 processes on the system (running WWW/Lynx) that were
completely CPU bound.  This has been a known bug in Lynx that I (nor anyone
else on the net) haven't solved yet.  Generally, this problem doesn't cause
too much of a problem because it usually only affects 1 or 2 processes at
most.  On Saturday, though, we ended up with about 10 of them.
 
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                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
                                     Miami Computing and Information Services
                                     Miami University, Oxford, OH
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