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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2000 06:10:54 -0500
From:      "Scott Myron" <zamy27@scottsburg.com>
To:        <gjohnson@gs.verio.net>, "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD is being extremely slow..
Message-ID:  <001501c010e0$a28b49d0$2b01a8c0@tool>
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The computer has 2 NIC's because it IS a gateway, sorry, I forgot to mention
that. I'm going to try to underclock my processor to "normal" speed and then
see what's going on. Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Johnson" <gjohnson@gs.verio.net>
To: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
Cc: "Scott Myron" <scottie@scottsburg.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD is being extremely slow..


> BitchX is not a diagnostic utility.  Neither is Netscape.  You are also
> overclocking the computer.  I am not a believer that CPU speed = "a
> faster computer"  Secondly you have 2 nics in the box.  If your computer
> is not a router or a gateway, why do you have 2 nics in the box??
> Socks.nec.com has info about running a multi-homes system. Why does your
> box have 2 nics??  Strip your computer down to bare essentials and then
> re-run your tests.
>
>
>
> Josh Paetzel wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Scott Myron" <scottie@scottsburg.com>
> > To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 10:22 PM
> > Subject: FreeBSD is being extremely slow..
> >
> > Hello. I have an Athlon 650@715 w/ 128MB of ram. It's fast. Things are
> > generally fast. However I'm having a few problems.
> >
> > First let me say, I had this hard drive in a Celeron 333. I then moved
it to
> > the Athlon, and upgraded(via cvsup) from 4.0-current to 4.1-stable. The
make
> > world was fine. No problems, other than softupdates(where did it go?!?).
> >
> > Ok anyway, now these are the problems. I'm using XFree86 4.0 w/ a
> > GeForce256. I installed the binaries. Everything is fine, however,
netscape
> > takes FOREVER(read: 2 to 3 minutes) to load. So does Licq. Also, in the
> > console, BitchX takes a long time to load. After about 1 or 2 minutes,
it
> > finally loads.
> >
> > I would guess that something is using up all of your memory.  Check top
or
> > ps -aux and see how much memory you have free while you are trying to
load
> > netscape.  I am guessing that you are digging way into swap.
> >
> > Problem #2 has to do with my NIC. I've got 2 NIC's of different brands.
They
> > do, however, use the same device in the kernel, dc0. One of them is the
> > Linksys LNE100TX, and the other is some CNET card.(macronix i think).
The
> > CNET card works perfectly. The Linksys is connected to my DSL. I have a
> > problem downloading files. It will download part of the file, then stop.
For
> > example, I was downloading cvsup from ftp.freesoftware.com. It STOPPED
at
> > 480k. It goes about 20-60k/sec, then stops. It does this using "ftp" or
> > netscape. It also did it with BitchX(but i'm not sure if it stopped at
> > 480k). When I tried to cvsup, it would go for a while, then stop. I then
> > connected my DSL to my CNET card, and everything worked fine. I'd really
> > like to know what's going on though, because I moved my DSL back to the
> > Linksys.
> >
> > I have 2 or 3 of the LNE100TX cards and I haven't had very good luck
with
> > them under win98 or FreeBSD.  I would recommend getting another CNET.
> >
> > Josh
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > Scott Myron
> >
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