Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 23:54:08 -0500 From: Tony Johnson <gjohnson@gs.verio.net> To: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: Scott Myron <scottie@scottsburg.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD is being extremely slow.. Message-ID: <39A9F070.C07BD9C@gs.verio.net> References: <000c01c0109f$22a86680$2b01a8c0@tool> <002a01c010a9$e8a32fa0$81470ace@mark8>
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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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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