The bad performance in Irix appears to be a lack of resources, most
likely system buffers for sockets and I/O. Try increasing the system
parameter, nbuf, using systune, reboot, and see if it helps. Also,
use the "par" program with options "-s -SS -i -u -p <pid>"
to monitor activity in the backend -- that may provide some clues.
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