Re: Why are my boxes sooo slow sometimes? (w/ detailed 'Monitor' output)

Difference that "ls" is reading a file (the directory file) which is located on the current directory (i.e: . or od -xc . ). ls -l has to access the inode table which is located on the remote system. Increase the biod on the local (on the remote also for the server caching daemon), increase your mbuf's. Consider mounting all remote nfs mount filesystems with the options=bg,soft,intr,retry=2,retrans=8 . Check errpt for network problem. Check stats with netstat -s, netstat -m and nfstat. Regards, Bassel Bekdache Scott Nemeth wrote: > > > 'images' drives mounted (tabletop). Also 'ls' seems > > to work fine but when I use 'ls -al' it take several minutes > > to come back.(what is the difference?). This happens on 'tabletop' > > (the main box) and 'image' (legacy names). > > When I've seen this problem it was related to NFS and TCP/IP. For some > reason under AIX 3.2 there is a problem when you take a machine down to > "init 0" and are running NFS. This problem was corrected with AIX 4. The > solution for AIX 3.2 is to execute /etc/nfs.clean immediately before > shutting down or immediately before running "init 0". Check through the > crontab processes that run (or finish) around 7PM. See if the machine is > being initialized to "init 0", or if TCP/IP is shutting down. Try adding > the /etc/nfs.clean to the script immediately before the "init 0". I know > there are other things that might cause this but this is what I ended up > doing and it did solve the problem.