From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 27 20:20:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.scottsburg.com (mail.scottsburg.com [209.45.140.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C8B37B424 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:20:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tool [192.168.1.43] by mail.scottsburg.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id A8F62008014A; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 22:30:30 -0500 Message-ID: <000c01c0109f$22a86680$2b01a8c0@tool> From: "Scott Myron" To: Subject: FreeBSD is being extremely slow.. Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 22:22:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0009_01C01075.399E5630" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C01075.399E5630 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello. I have an Athlon 650@715 w/ 128MB of ram. It's fast. Things are = generally fast. However I'm having a few problems.=20 First let me say, I had this hard drive in a Celeron 333. I then moved = it to the Athlon, and upgraded(via cvsup) from 4.0-current to = 4.1-stable. The make world was fine. No problems, other than = softupdates(where did it go?!?). Ok anyway, now these are the problems. I'm using XFree86 4.0 w/ a = GeForce256. I installed the binaries. Everything is fine, however, = netscape takes FOREVER(read: 2 to 3 minutes) to load. So does Licq. = Also, in the console, BitchX takes a long time to load. After about 1 or = 2 minutes, it finally loads.=20 Problem #2 has to do with my NIC. I've got 2 NIC's of different brands. = They do, however, use the same device in the kernel, dc0. One of them is = the Linksys LNE100TX, and the other is some CNET card.(macronix i = think). The CNET card works perfectly. The Linksys is connected to my = DSL. I have a problem downloading files. It will download part of the = file, then stop. For example, I was downloading cvsup from = ftp.freesoftware.com. It STOPPED at 480k. It goes about 20-60k/sec, then = stops. It does this using "ftp" or netscape. It also did it with = BitchX(but i'm not sure if it stopped at 480k). When I tried to cvsup, = it would go for a while, then stop. I then connected my DSL to my CNET = card, and everything worked fine. I'd really like to know what's going = on though, because I moved my DSL back to the Linksys.=20 Thanks in advance for any help.=20 Scott Myron ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C01075.399E5630 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello. I have an Athlon 650@715 w/ 128MB of ram. It's fast. = Things are=20 generally fast. However I'm having a few problems.
 
First let me say, I had this hard drive = in a=20 Celeron 333. I then moved it to the Athlon, and upgraded(via cvsup) from = 4.0-current to 4.1-stable. The make world was fine. No problems, other = than=20 softupdates(where did it go?!?).
 
Ok anyway, now these are the problems. = I'm using=20 XFree86 4.0 w/ a GeForce256. I installed the binaries. Everything is = fine,=20 however, netscape takes FOREVER(read: 2 to 3 minutes) to load. = So does=20 Licq. Also, in the console, BitchX takes a long time to load. After = about 1 or 2=20 minutes, it finally loads.
 
Problem #2 has to do with my NIC. I've = got 2 NIC's=20 of different brands. They do, however, use the same device in the = kernel, dc0.=20 One of them is the Linksys LNE100TX, and the other is some CNET = card.(macronix i=20 think). The CNET card works perfectly. The Linksys is connected to my = DSL. I=20 have a problem downloading files. It will download part of the file, = then stop.=20 For example, I was downloading cvsup from ftp.freesoftware.com. It STOPPED = at 480k.=20 It goes about 20-60k/sec, then stops. It does this using "ftp" or = netscape. It=20 also did it with BitchX(but i'm not sure if it stopped at 480k). When I = tried to=20 cvsup, it would go for a while, then stop. I then connected my DSL to my = CNET=20 card, and everything worked fine. I'd really like to know what's going = on=20 though, because I moved my DSL back to the Linksys.
 
Thanks in advance for any help. =
 
Scott Myron
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