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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:20:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: extremely slow interactive processes
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On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Andrew McNaughton wrote:

> 
> 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.

Odd.  Hardware specs?  Is the disk working hard when you run these
commands?  How are you logging in?

> 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
> 
> 
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Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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