Earlier this afternoon (Sunday, 5 Feb 1995), the DEC OpenVMS system in Oxford (MiaVX1) experienced unanticipated difficulties due to a device conflict arising from installation of temporary hardware. A general system slowdown developed about 1:30pm and quickly escalated, resulting in the machine slowing to a crawl, refusing to allow new logins, and finally, nearly stopping altogether. It became necessary to shutdown and restart the system in order to restore service. Service was completely restored by 3:30pm. Between 1:30 and 3:30pm, all MiaVX1 services were adversely affected, as were the following University-wide services: Miami Root (WWW) NetNews / NNTP World Wide Web MCIS regrets any inconvenience this service irregularity and interruption may have caused our clients. -- MCIS News Miami Computing & Information Services (MCIS) Miami University (Ohio USA) [log in to unmask]