From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 27 21:30:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 549BC37B424 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mark8 (hutch-801.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.129]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id XAA26088; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 23:30:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <002a01c010a9$e8a32fa0$81470ace@mark8> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Scott Myron" , References: <000c01c0109f$22a86680$2b01a8c0@tool> Subject: Re: FreeBSD is being extremely slow.. Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 23:39:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Myron" To: Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 10:22 PM Subject: FreeBSD is being extremely slow.. 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. I would guess that something is using up all of your memory. Check top or ps -aux and see how much memory you have free while you are trying to load netscape. I am guessing that you are digging way into swap. 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. I have 2 or 3 of the LNE100TX cards and I haven't had very good luck with them under win98 or FreeBSD. I would recommend getting another CNET. Josh 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