Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 23:13:47 -0500 From: Tony Johnson <gjohnson@gs.verio.net> To: Scott Myron <scottie@scottsburg.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD is being extremely slow.. Message-ID: <39A9E6FB.C76DC30A@gs.verio.net> References: <000c01c0109f$22a86680$2b01a8c0@tool> <39A9E31F.2B4C8792@gs.verio.net>
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As an example... Assuming that you have fetched a USA-Legal Wraphelp.c. >> X401src-1.tgz doesn't seem to exist on this system. >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.0.1/source/. Receiving X401src-1.tgz (21994230 bytes): 100% 21994230 bytes transferred in 230.5 seconds (93.18 kBps) >> X401src-2.tgz doesn't seem to exist on this system. >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.0.1/source/. Receiving X401src-2.tgz (18971060 bytes): 100% 18971060 bytes transferred in 201.6 seconds (91.91 kBps) I have a slower system then yours but the network transactins are faster.... Tony Johnson wrote: > > I have an older PPro system with: > Diamnd Viper 550 pci > Diamond Monster Sound MX300 > 3950b U2 Scsi card > 4 hard disks of varying manufacturers > SMC EtherPower II > 256M edo ram > > All hard disks/cdrom are scsi. I also have a DSL to Verio. > > I experience no problems such as these. I am using FreeBSD > 5.0-Current. I am also using Xfree86 4.0, with it's root > compromise(s). *Wonmder*... But anyway, I am not saying to go with > Current but I do think that you may have a hardware problem in your > system. Just because it works in Windoze is not an diagnsis. > > > Scott Myron wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > > > Scott Myron > > 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
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