On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:32:17AM -0400, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:44 AM, stan <st...@panix.com> wrote: > > That's sort of the point. I need to be able to docment the brain damage > > that is being done to the network :-) > > If it's still TCP then the best thoughts I have are to look at ARP and > DNS resolution times. Has a resolver been removed that one of your > machines is still using? > FYI, an amcheck of 53 machines (all of which pass) take a reliable 6 minutes. Historically, depending on whether we had read the tape before or not, the server could take up to 3 seconds, or less that 2. The clients, assuming no down machines, would all return within a few seconds.
Clearly the network people are making things "better" :-( -- 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.