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Subject: Re: Problem with HTTP traffic (very slow)
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On 4 Jun 2003, Mark Sergeant wrote:

> I have two machines running 4.8-RELEASE ... both sitting on the same
> switch, same hardware, same everything really. 
> 
> One gets 200k/s using wget / curl / w3m to a http address the other gets
> 6k/s to the same address. On the slow http machine I get 200k/s via scp
> or ftp to the same address it's just web traffic that is slow (note web
> traffic to all other locations is 4 - 6k/s as well). I've recompiled
> curl, w3m, wget and all their dependancies and still no luck so I can
> only assume something is broken with http traffic on this machine.
> 
> The only difference between these two machines is one is an nfs server
> and the other an nfs client to that machine.
> 
> Has anyone experienced this before / got any pointers on where I should
> look, which deity I should pray to etc. 

Where are wget/curl/w3m/... fetching their files to?  Into NFS, or a local
file system?  Does it differ for the two machines? 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories