Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 16:06:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Brent Rector <brent@talou.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System Halts Temporarily... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005071556410.74762-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <3915D75A.C551BF41@talou.net>
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This sounds like a network connection problem. I use to work over a dail-up modem and had that problem all of the time. Now I have a dsl and do not have that problem. The line just got bogged down at times. Too slow. If you are directly working on the machine I would have to say something on the machine is periodically taking the I/O idle time down to 0%. If you can run top while you this is all happening you may find the cause. Look for anything with a large memory footprint which would swap lots of memory out to disk. When a large amount of actually memory is dropped to disk I am thinking that you will notice a short delay. One way to resolve this problem if it is swap out memory to disk would simply be to add more actual memory, but be sure that is the reason first. Memory is cheap, but not that cheap. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? On Sun, 7 May 2000, Brent Rector wrote: > Hi, > > We are basically getting the in a variety of areas, the most noticable > one is in basic telnet session. > > I do an "ll" or "ls" and the screen halts.. for a moment., continues, > halts again... etc... > > Brent > > > Brennan W Stehling wrote: > > > > What processes are hanging? I notice that when I am in pine that I often > > have to wait for delays to end. This is largely due to number of emails > > in my inbox. Pine just does not handle the mailbox very efficiently. > > > > Perhaps this is the delay you are noticing. > > > > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin > > projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > > > > Microsoft: Will you get a macro virus today? > > > > On Sun, 7 May 2000, Brent Rector wrote: > > > > > Hey Everyone! > > > > > > I was wondering if there was a setting I can modify to allow for more > > > system processes, it appears that at times the system will hang > > > temporarily during some processes. > > > > > > The machine has plenty of ram as well as lots of swap space.. > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated! > > > > > > Brent > > > -- > > > Brent L. Rector brent@talou.net > > > SysAdmin > > > Talou Internet Services Corp. http://www.talou.net > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me > > > to > > > advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal > > > amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft > > > product. > > > > > > -- OWNED? MS: Who's Been In Your Computer Today? > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Brent L. Rector brent@talou.net > SysAdmin > Talou Internet Services Corp. http://www.talou.net > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me > to > advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal > amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft > product. > > -- OWNED? MS: Who's Been In Your Computer Today? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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