From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 27 20:57:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net [129.250.36.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABCB437B446 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.250.38.63] (helo=dfw-mmp3.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout1.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #7) id 13TG33-0005Bn-00; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 03:57:25 +0000 Received: from [204.1.90.43] (helo=gs.verio.net) by dfw-mmp3.email.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #4) id 13TG32-00069O-00; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 03:57:24 +0000 Message-ID: <39A9E31F.2B4C8792@gs.verio.net> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 22:57:19 -0500 From: Tony Johnson Reply-To: gjohnson@gs.verio.net Organization: Expert Solutions, L.L.C X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Myron Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is being extremely slow.. References: <000c01c0109f$22a86680$2b01a8c0@tool> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an older PPro system with: Diamnd Viper 550 pci Diamond Monster Sound MX300 3950b U2 Scsi card 4 hard disks of varying manufacturers SMC EtherPower II 256M edo ram All hard disks/cdrom are scsi. I also have a DSL to Verio. I experience no problems such as these. I am using FreeBSD 5.0-Current. I am also using Xfree86 4.0, with it's root compromise(s). *Wonmder*... But anyway, I am not saying to go with Current but I do think that you may have a hardware problem in your system. Just because it works in Windoze is not an diagnsis. > Scott Myron wrote: > > 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. > > 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. > > 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