Re: Slow linux server

[Alan Wilson <awilson@accessus.net>]

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Kara Pritchard wrote:

> 
> 
> Sounds like someone's running something bad on the system eating away at
> your CPU cycles. Have you rebooted the machine?

Yep, did that.  Well actually the reason for the reboot was the change of ip
address.  I noticed that mars_nwe was sucking up a whole bunch --> don't know
why I installed that; I never configured it.  I killed it and it went up to
the 70 or 80 % idle.  The stuff the was consuming the cyles was me (my bash
shell, top, etc)

Thanks



> 
> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Alan Wilson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > We have RH5.2 installed on a machine in a classroom where they teach html,
> > etc.  Recently the machine has slowed to a crawl.  I have no clue.
> > 
> > for example, if I ping the machine from my desk, I get under 10ms time; but if
> > I telnet to it, I get a connect message very quickly, but it takes 80 to 90
> > seconds to get a login prompt.
> > 
> > If I ftp to the machine, it may take over 120 seconds to get a reply if the
> > client I am using doesn't time out.  
> > 
> > In both cases, after I connect the speed is good.
> > 
> > The traffic on the network is not that heavy (as checked by a packet sniffer).
> > My connection is ethernet to the Linux machine (no modems).
> > 
> > Top suggests 70% or better idle on the cpu.  
> > 
> > Other confusing things: samba used to advertise the machine on the network,
> > but doesn't anymore.  I am not really too worried about samba as I seem to be
> > one of the very few people with Microsoft Client installed on their machine.
> > 
> > A connect to the Apache web server on the machine is quick.
> > 
> > I don't really have any clue as to what might slow the thing down.
> > Suggestions?
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > Alan
> > 
> > 
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> 
> - Kara
> 
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