Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:18:38 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Daniel R. Brownstone" <drbrowns@ls.wustl.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimizing FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980327101838.49909@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980326165820.18811R-100000@ls.wustl.edu>; from Daniel R. Brownstone on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 05:14:59PM -0600 References: <19980327092631.07893@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980326165820.18811R-100000@ls.wustl.edu>
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On Thu, 26 March 1998 at 17:14:59 -0600, Daniel R. Brownstone wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> 3Coms usually don't cause problems. It's important to know the right >> one, though. > > I'll check and advise. > >> 2.2.6-RELEASE was released about 2 days ago. It's available now from >> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org, and will be available on CD-ROM in a couple of >> weeks. > > Forgive my ignorance, and I'm sure this is easily looked up, but is there > a difference between 2.2.6-RELEASE and 2.2.6-STABLE? Yes. -RELEASE is a one-off occurrence: it happened two days ago. -STABLE is an ongoing business. It gets updated as needed. Two days ago the contents were the same. >> One question I forgot to ask you is: what programs are you running? > > Um nothing major. Netscape server, a lot of copies of pine > simultaneously, some perl scrips, here's top, taken right now: (although > it's late in the day, so there's not a lot going on)-- > > (top output omitted) There's nothing obvious there, but it's not necessarily the most active processes that are causing the problem. Are there any others which show up in a ps aux? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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