From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 31 13:25:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA00259 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Jan 1995 13:25:28 -0800 Received: from seahunt.imat.com (seahunt.imat.COM [140.174.70.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA00107 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 1995 13:21:22 -0800 Received: (from nelson@localhost) by seahunt.imat.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA01599; Tue, 31 Jan 1995 13:15:57 -0800 From: Michael Nelson Message-Id: <199501312115.NAA01599@seahunt.imat.com> Subject: Re: Discouraged... To: james@hermes.cybernetics.net (James Robinson) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 13:15:56 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501312050.PAA01420@hermes.cybernetics.net> from "James Robinson" at Jan 31, 95 03:50:43 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2560 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk James Robinson wrote: > > One would think that such a high caliber computer professional would > approach a volenteer group with a little less of an inflammatory > attitude. Remember -- no one made you do this, an nothing makes us > want to help aside from our good nature. You did not purchase a product > from the FreeBSD team (whom I do not represent -- I am just a happy > user). I understand that. I guess I'm just saying that I'm very disappointed in the way FreeBSD is working on _my_ machine. I certainly don't mean to condemn anyone involved in the project. > > Machine: AMI 486/33 > > Ram: 16MB > > SCSI: 2 ea CDC 320MB drives on an Adaptec AHA-1740 > > 1 ea Archive Viper 150 Tape > > 1 ea Toshiba 3101 CDROM > > Ethernet: WD (SMC) 8013 > > Video: ATI Graphics Ultra > > DX or SX chip? DX... intel > What speed -- 16 cps ? Are you saying that you get 1.5K/s from your > FreeBSD machine to other machines in the real world, but really > slow ones to freefall.cdrom.com? Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. For example, I tried to sup again today. It took an HOUR to get these three files: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3425 Sep 11 00:53 COPYRIGHT -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 9729 Jan 24 19:00 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 5843 Jan 29 01:00 TODO ...then I aborted it again. > Or do you get 1.5K/s from a peer Linux machine to the real world? That's also true. > Can you capture some documentary output describing your situation, as > well as your network setup? Sure... but what information do you want to see? Traceroutes? Pings? Tcpdumps? Let me know and I'll provide them. > Ok -- what is acting as the gateway machine? A Compaq i386/20DX with 13MB of RAM, running Linux and Dip. It's a dedicated slip machine with nothing else going on on it. > What does the FreeBSD box's routing table look like? I don't know what I need to do to get you that information. Can you tell me what you need for me to do? I plead "dummy" on this one. > Do you get good pure ethernet transfer times? Same as above... ftps to other sites work fine, though. > Do you have a math co-processor? Sounds like a math emulation problem -- > try configuring a kernel with the > options GPL_MATH_EMULATE > > as opposed to > options MATH_EMULATE > > Or installing a DX chip. As I said above, it _is_ a DX chip. -- Michael Nelson nelson@seahunt.imat.com San Francisco, CA http://www.imat.com/consult.html VOICE: 1-415-621-2608