On Wednesday, February 19, at around 2:00pm, the interactive portion (SEA) of the MiaVX1 cluster began experiencing severe performance problems. This problem probably appeared to users as a total lack of response from the system. Any attempts to login probably timed out before completing. MCIS forced a crash on the system at around 2:15pm to collect information about the situation and to attempt to restore the system to a usable state. Digital Equipment Corporation is investigating this problem. While the system was down, MCIS applied a patch that Digital feels should fix the problems experienced on Monday night and early Wednesday morning. See the preceding news article for more information concerning these problems. -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask]