inexplicable slowness

[Stephen J. Muir]

We're running BSD 4.2 and our system has recently been giving a very poor
response, sometimes, when the load average is below 1.0.  There is nothing
being printed on the console, so I'm rather at a loss.  Can anyone give me any
pointers please?
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