From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 19:00:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6102C1065684 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:00:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27AB88FC26 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:00:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd4mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr6so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.69]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K2O00DV69XW5L20@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:56:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd4mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K2O00KB59XWJT40@pd4mr6so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:56:21 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home ([70.67.160.176]) by l-daemon (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K2O00IOG9XUMU40@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:56:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gom.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218A7B839 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:56:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:56:09 -0700 From: prad In-reply-to: <20080618091609.b987bf37.wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080618115609.09acaadb@gom.home> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20080616001840.0d0e8fe9@gom.home> <20080616082332.02b87114.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20080617220514.1ebdabef@gom.home> <20080618083654.GB71985@osiris.chen.org.nz> <20080618091609.b987bf37.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Subject: Re: internet slowdown X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:00:53 -0000 On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:16:09 -0400 Bill Moran wrote: > Prad, once you _are_ logged in, is the server responsive? Or does the > sluggishness persist? > there is no problem once we are in - the cpu is idle 95% and you can move around and do stuff without any slowdown at all. right now, at 11:30am pst we were experiencing very high activity due to a press release done in toronto on canadian horse slaughter from this site: http://defendhorsescanada.org the slowdown is upon us too - but i don't know if it is related or not because the ping times are varying from 100ms to 1000+ms to the same site(s). it's all over the place! what is really weird is that the machine that hosts that site isn't the only one which has slowed down. the other machine which only serves email experiences the same thing (slow ssh connection, long ping times). we are going to bypass the servers by using one of our dynamic ip addresses and see what it is like then. if that computer experiences a slowdown, i think it may suggest that the problem is due to network activity within the cable company. if there is no slowdown, then that seems to point the problem exclusively to our servers. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's