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Running v5 64bit on a Dell 1950. A cluster of 3 DB machines, identical hardware. One of them suddenly became slower 2 weeks ago. tar -zxf with a large file on this machine takes 1.5 minutes, but takes only 10 seconds on any of its siblings. CPU usage seems high while untarring, with lots of user and sys cycles being used, but almost no wait cycles. It doesn't matter whether I untar on a