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Date:      Mon, 31 May 2004 14:34:30 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Scott <scot-gale@excite.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.8R sluggish performance
Message-ID:  <20040531143126.K75154@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040531191730.C0D563DDC@xprdmailfe12.nwk.excite.com>
References:  <20040531191730.C0D563DDC@xprdmailfe12.nwk.excite.com>

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On Mon, 31 May 2004, Scott wrote:

> I can always tell when the problem will occur based upon what
> happens at boot. There are no error messages, but the slowness
> begins when the standard daemons are loading. Cron and sshd
> load just fine, but the delay occurs as sendmail loads, and
> there is another delay as sendmail-clientmqueue loads. Once
> that happens I know I'm in trouble thereafter.

You can see if this is a DNS issue by comparing the reactions:

ping hostname
ping hostname's-ip-address

In other words, if it's slow to look up a name, but quick when it 
doesn't have to, you've shown that it is a DNS problem.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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