From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 2 02:05:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16675 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 02:05:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aniwa.sky (aniwa.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.56.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA16669 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 02:05:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by aniwa.sky (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA03024 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 21:04:46 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 21:04:45 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton X-Sender: andrew@aniwa.sky Reply-To: andrew@squiz.co.nz To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: extremely slow interactive processes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm currently seeing a strange behaviour on my server. I log in using ssh and running interactive ascii programs is extremely slow. eg 'less', 'top', 'pine' are slow, but 'cat' and 'top|cat' run normally. System resources are not being taxed much. root@dawn# top|cat last pid: 13550; load averages: 0.08, 0.04, 0.02 21:03:41 45 processes: 1 running, 44 sleeping Mem: 43M Active, 2076K Inact, 25M Wired, 11M Cache, 8345K Buf, 43M Free Swap: 531M Total, 6520K Used, 525M Free, 1% Inuse Interactive programs run extremely slow and/or lock up. Not sure if the locking up is just too slow for my patience. Any ideas what may be causing this? Andrew McNaughton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message