Wanda, et. al.

I'm involved in this one as well so I'll add what I know of the
configuration and the symptoms.

NT Cluster, two systems connected via dual SCSI UW to the Clarion.

ADSM Client V3.1.0.6

Clarion RAID unit, 30 drives, four partitions:

1 with 5 drives, RAID5
1 with 5 drives, RAID5
1 with 4 drives, RAID5
1 with 15 drives, RAID5
1 spare drive.

I'm told that all RAID5 volumes are intact and not running degraded due to
a disk failure.

The large volume has a deep directory tree with 700-800K files.  Many
directories with more than 1000 files.  The ADSM client, wether doing an
incremental of the whole drive, or an individual directory runs abysmally
(sp) slow.  A selective backup of a directory runs equally slow.
 Operations on the other volumes in this baby run fine.

Sean included a portion of the trace file.  Perhaps one of you performance
gurus could take a look at this and help us out. If you need more trace
info, send mail to Sean and he will generate it for you.

Thanks gang!

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
www.storsol.com
lipp AT storsol DOT com
(719)531-5926