From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 15:48:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13930 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:48:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13920 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 15:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA23770; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:18:39 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA03663; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:18:38 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980327101838.49909@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:18:38 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Daniel R. Brownstone" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimizing FreeBSD References: <19980327092631.07893@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Daniel R. Brownstone on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 05:14:59PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 March 1998 at 17:14:59 -0600, Daniel R. Brownstone wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> 3Coms usually don't cause problems. It's important to know the right >> one, though. > > I'll check and advise. > >> 2.2.6-RELEASE was released about 2 days ago. It's available now from >> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org, and will be available on CD-ROM in a couple of >> weeks. > > Forgive my ignorance, and I'm sure this is easily looked up, but is there > a difference between 2.2.6-RELEASE and 2.2.6-STABLE? Yes. -RELEASE is a one-off occurrence: it happened two days ago. -STABLE is an ongoing business. It gets updated as needed. Two days ago the contents were the same. >> One question I forgot to ask you is: what programs are you running? > > Um nothing major. Netscape server, a lot of copies of pine > simultaneously, some perl scrips, here's top, taken right now: (although > it's late in the day, so there's not a lot going on)-- > > (top output omitted) There's nothing obvious there, but it's not necessarily the most active processes that are causing the problem. Are there any others which show up in a ps aux? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message