On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:35:18AM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:19 AM, stan <st...@panix.com> wrote: > > We are in the process of making a number of significant changes to our > > internal network. At the moment, an amcheck on 52 machines, which > > ultimately reports no problems, is taking over 6 minutes. Historically, > > when no machines were down etc, this took less than 1 minute. > > > > How can I troubleshoot what is causing this slowness? > > Not to be coy, but I would guess that it's the significant changes > you're making to your network! > > If I recall, you're using UDP-based auth, so perhaps these network > changes are causing packet loss and retransmission?
That's sort of the point. I need to be able to docment the brain damage that is being done to the network :-) WE are largely BSDTCP auth at this poit, as UPD stoped working a couple of months agao. -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.