Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 10:46:27 -0500 From: Matthew Cashdollar <mattc@rfcnet.com> To: David Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ Personal Web Server vs PPP Message-ID: <19980521104627.A3204@rfcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980520111449.27171O-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>; from David Babler on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 11:25:27AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980520111449.27171O-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>
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On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 11:25:27AM -0700, David Babler wrote: > > The modem is external, so when I ping him, I do see the outbound activity > in sync with the stdout, so I have pretty much ruled out a problem on this > end with PPP. It looks to me like his W95 box runs some application that > produces a serious memory leak, forcing it to start swapping more and > more, but I can't confirm that. When the user reboots and reconnects, > everything is back to normal until the next time. My only "fix" for him is > to run a cron job that pings him every 15 minutes and then email him when > I see the response times go up. There is a memory leak in the Windows 95 kernel involving programs that listen for incoming connections.. it is only a problem in older versions though (not in OSR2 or whatever). There are patches on www.microsoft.com somewhere.. -- Matthew Cashdollar <mattc@rfcnet.com> RF Communications, Inc. -- http://www.rfcinc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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