Re: clients slow down due to unknown process

2012-12-01 Thread MT Julianto
Hi David, On 27 November 2012 16:21, David Fitzgerald < david.fitzger...@millersville.edu> wrote: > > > I have a lab of 25 workstations running Scientific Linux 6.2. User > accounts are authenticated via freeIPA, and auto mounted to an NFS server > and the users use Gnome 2.8. The NFS and freeI

Re: clients slow down due to unknown process

2012-12-01 Thread Joseph Areeda
Hi David, I am certainly no expert but this looks to me like the classic NFS symptoms when the server gets overloaded, or a disk or the network gets flaky. If it were me, I'd try to get the class to do more local i/o (if possible). Perhaps a scratch area on the local disk would solve the p