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From: bag@sinbin.demos.su (Alex G. Bulushev)
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Subject: Re: Slow, Slow, Slow
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970506213922.00908210@mail.websidestory.com> from Garrett Casey at "May 6, 97 09:39:22 pm"
To: garrett@websidestory.com (Garrett Casey)
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 10:05:28 +0400 (MSD)
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> Could anyone please make suggestions.
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 2.1.7.1-RELEASE.
> The computer is an 200mhz pro 256 mg. ram.
> Ethernet card fxp0.
> The machine is on a ds3. All it does is
> server HTML pages - no cgi.
> Here is the latest top screenshot

try to use
ifconfig fxp0 link0 link1 link2

   Alex.

> 
> load averages:   0.00,  0.01,  0.16                    14:33:31
> 151 processes: 1 running, 150 sleeping
> Cpu states:  0.8% user,  0.0% nice,  2.7% system,  1.2% interrupt, 95.3% idle
> Mem: 27M Active, 2224K Inact, 22M Wired, 26M Cache, 6992K Buf, 176M Free
> Swap: 141M Total, 64K Used, 141M Free
> 
> As you can see, there is plenty of mem, plenty of CPU.  
> 
> The problem is that when I telnet to this machine (from a machine on
> a T1 line), it is extremely SLOW.
> It will typically take 10 seconds for the login prompt and even
> longer to check the password.  I have telneted to the machine, typed
> a command and have waited over a minute before even a character will
> be displayed.
> 
> I have a dozen other machines that sometimes do the same thing.
> EVERYTHING looks perfect - yet the whole damn machine is extremely
> slow.  
> 
> I would greatly appreciate any help with this problem.
> 
> -Garrett
> garrett@websidestory.com
> 
>