Rick,
   You might want to make sure that all your network cards are strapped down to
100MB, not auto-negotiate.  I've seen problems in the past where backups were
REALLY slow because each packet was being renegotiated!
'Chel

Michel Huber
Consultant
Gresham Enterprise Storage


Rick Modisette wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Backups are taking forever. The Pct. Comm wait is always around 99%. Can 
> someone
> please tell me what its waiting for? I must be overlooking something. Attached
> is info for one of the nodes. The NT nodes seem to do better, but Pct. Comm.
> wait is still around 40%-60% for them. The network is 100MB ethernet, recently
> upgraded from 10MB ethernet. If someone could point me in the right direction 
> of
> where to look it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rick Modisette
>
> ********************************************************************************
> ********
>
>                      Node Name: FIN_INFORMIX
>                       Platform: XOpen/ADSM
>                Client OS Level: AIX 4.1
>                 Client Version: Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.7
>             Policy Domain Name: STANDARD
>          Last Access Date/Time: 12/10/99   11:50:34
>         Days Since Last Access: <1
>         Password Set Date/Time: 11/10/99   13:47:20
>        Days Since Password Set: 30
>          Invalid Sign-on Count: 0
>                        Locked?: No
>                        Contact:
>                    Compression: Yes
>        Archive Delete Allowed?: Yes
>         Backup Delete Allowed?: No
>         Registration Date/Time: 11/10/99   13:47:20
>      Registering Administrator: ADMIN
> Last Communication Method Used: Tcp/Ip
>    Bytes Received Last Session: 2.00 M
>        Bytes Sent Last Session: 2,026
> Duration of Last Session (sec): 1,333.34
>    Pct. Idle Wait Last Session: 0.94
>   Pct. Comm. Wait Last Session: 97.10
>   Pct. Media Wait Last Session: 0.00
>                      Optionset:
>                            URL:
>                      Node Type: Client
>     Password Expiration Period:
> ********************************************************************************
> ******