phantom squawk - solw performance

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PHANTOM is the DataStage command to create a background process, and SQUAWK (or REPORTING) is a keyword that notifies it to advise its parent when done - the report goes into the DSD.RUN file in &PH& folder in the project. So don't worry about these - they are the startup commands for your DataStage processes. In particular, don't knock them out with Task Manager!
The process running hostname is a command invoked from DSExecute() to obtain the machine name via the hostname command in a DOS shell. Again, that's part of normal processing.

What is the total number of DataStage processes running? Is there any contention for resources, particularly writing to text files? How much memory does your server have?

Does it go any faster if you don't have Director open? (Director is interrupting every four seconds to ask for a status report - with a large number of jobs, the refresh time on this may take a large chunk out of that four seconds!)

What else is running on the server machine? In particular is it a primary or backup domain controller? Is there a dynamic screen saver?