From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 21 08:47:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA27369 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 08:47:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rfcnet.com (rfcnet.com [207.227.20.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA27348 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 08:47:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mattc@rfcnet.com) Received: (from mattc@localhost) by rfcnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03795; Thu, 21 May 1998 10:46:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mattc) Message-ID: <19980521104627.A3204@rfcnet.com> Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 10:46:27 -0500 From: Matthew Cashdollar To: David Babler , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ Personal Web Server vs PPP References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from David Babler on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 11:25:27AM -0700 x-no-archive: yes Organization: RF Communications, Inc. http://www.rfcinc.com Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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