Hi,
        I have the misfortune of having to export a filespace for a node with
260,000 files and 210 GB of data.  The export was started Sunday morning
at 11:00 AM and was making very good progress, about 8.5 GB per hour,
for the first 20 hours.  However, it's slowed to a crawl for the last 6
hours (about 1.5 GB per hour).  When I do a Q SESSION, the export
session is spending a lot of time waiting...


  Sess Comm.  Sess     Wait   Bytes   Bytes Sess  Platform Client Name
Number Method State    Time    Sent   Recvd Type
------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ------- ----- --------
--------------------
--------------------
 2,040 Memory SendW  3.3 M   49.3 M     181 Admin Server   PITTSON1
 2,040 Memory SendW  3.3 M   49.3 M     181 Admin Server   PITTSON1
        IPC

At this rate, it will take another 20 hours to complete.  Has anybody
seen this type of behavior with Export ???  I'm afraid I'm going to have
to cancel the Export since there are only 2 3590 tape drives and I can't
affort to tie them up with the Export all night.  Would sure hate to
have to try this again next weekend and have the same thing happen.

Tim Pittson
tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com