From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 2 09:37:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC2716A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 09:37:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tower.berklix.org (bsd.bsn.com [194.221.32.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9337943D1D for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 09:37:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from js.berklix.net (pD9EB7B28.dip.t-dialin.net [217.235.123.40]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i829behB087363; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:37:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from lapd.jhs.private (lapd.jhs.private [192.168.91.35]) by js.berklix.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i829bWcu001631; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:37:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from lapd.jhs.private (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lapd.jhs.private (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i829bV4x001730; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:37:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@lapd.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200409020937.i829bV4x001730@lapd.jhs.private> To: "Bagus" In-Reply-To: Message from "Bagus" Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:37:31 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 12:03:22 +0000 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: slow login, app launching, etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 09:37:57 -0000 "Bagus" wrote: > > Hi, is anyone able to help me problem solve on this? Is this the right > forum for this kind of question? If not, could someone please send me a > pointer to an organization that might be able to help. I have a small budget > to get this fixed if anyone wants it. > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2CAM-19980716-SNAP on bagus.org. > > I've been running it for a few years. Recently, after normal performance, > I've been experiencing extremely slow login prompt appearance, extremely > slow application launching and what bugs me the most is the extremely slow > response time of my java-web server. OTher functionality is ok. It serves > html files just fine and also basic command line response is fine. > > Anyone out there have any clues as to what it could be? I'm kind > of guessing it has something to do with some name resolution somewhere, > but I'm not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Consider upgrading to 4.10-RELEASE, while you'r doing that, you may resolve some old issues (caution, we abandoned a few thing between 2 & 4, such as one old scsi controller I used to have, Future domain something 85 as I recall). I sympathise with "never touch a running system" but 2.2 is Seriously ancient ! -SNAP was for testing, not for production. Use releases for long term bases if you want to install freeze & forget. Could be no one else even runs your ancient particular version :-) If you'r running such seriously ancient software, maybe you'r also running ancient hardware ? eg I have a loose co-axial 10M ethernet connection somewhere, periodically makes my internal net go `sticky' (Well yes, Ive got a 100 Switch, but it's got a loud fan :-) There's tools in /usr/ports/sysutils/ for net performance & packet sniffing etc. Also in 4.9-RELEASE & 5.2-RELEASE there's man netstat The netstat command symbolically displays the contents of various net- work-related data structures. man sysstat .... - Julian Stacey. Unix,C,Net & Sys. Eng. Consultant, Munich. http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii, Html dumped as Spam. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.