Hi,
  I've just started seeing a really bizarre issue on my cluster (it appears to only affect the cluster).  We have a perl script which makes a system call to cat to a file.  This process used to take a couple on minutes now it takes about an hour...I've looked at all the normal tools, iostat, vmstat, nfsstat (since it is writing to a mounted area) and nothing seems out of place regarding resource utilization.  The only strange thing I see is in top and the process.
527184 userid    42    0 2112K  196K WAIT    0:00  0.00% cat
It has an awful lot of WAIT...
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Received on Wed Oct 22 2003 - 22:21:45 NZDT