From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 19:49:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D0A16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:49:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0778343D54 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:49:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 709875D25; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:49:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 96344-03; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:49:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.1.1.245] (nfw1.codefab.com [199.103.21.225]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF985CFA; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:49:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20050323095553.GJ10511@za.tiscali.com> References: <20050323095553.GJ10511@za.tiscali.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <3f7689b753d2b4a425043eb026d80829@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:49:23 -0500 To: Riaan Annandale X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh sessions getting "paused" on idle X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:49:26 -0000 On Mar 23, 2005, at 4:55 AM, Riaan Annandale wrote: > I ssh to anything over 10 machines at a time and leave the xterms idle. > When I come back to a session and press enter / start typing, it takes > a > few seconds to come alive. Almost as if the connection got canned. Well, it could be anything from a delay because the ssh processes are idle and have been swapped out to network delays. Does your disk become active when you resume an idle session, or are you simply seeing a 1-2 second delay as the network traffic gets exchanged and the session becomes active? -- -Chuck