Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:20:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: extremely slow interactive processes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808061220020.28098-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980802205814.2975A-100000@aniwa.sky>
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On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > > I'm currently seeing a strange behaviour on my server. I log in using ssh > and running interactive ascii programs is extremely slow. > > eg 'less', 'top', 'pine' are slow, but 'cat' and 'top|cat' run normally. Odd. Hardware specs? Is the disk working hard when you run these commands? How are you logging in? > System resources are not being taxed much. > > root@dawn# top|cat > last pid: 13550; load averages: 0.08, 0.04, 0.02 21:03:41 > 45 processes: 1 running, 44 sleeping > > Mem: 43M Active, 2076K Inact, 25M Wired, 11M Cache, 8345K Buf, 43M Free > Swap: 531M Total, 6520K Used, 525M Free, 1% Inuse > > Interactive programs run extremely slow and/or lock up. Not sure if the > locking up is just too slow for my patience. > > Any ideas what may be causing this? > > Andrew McNaughton > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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