From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 31 12:17:35 2004 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 7F69516A4CF for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 12:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from excite.com (nn1.excitenetwork.com [207.159.120.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EBF043D3F for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 12:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scot-gale@excite.com) Received: by xprdmailfe12.nwk.excite.com (Postfix, from userid 110) id C0D563DDC; Mon, 31 May 2004 15:17:30 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from [64.85.240.197] by xprdmailfe12.nwk.excite.com via HTTP; Mon, 31 May 2004 15:17:30 EST X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: ID = 3cb6c164448f200b8585c866de20d153 From: "Scott" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: scot-gale@excite.com X-Mailer: PHP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20040531191730.C0D563DDC@xprdmailfe12.nwk.excite.com> Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 15:17:30 -0400 (EDT) Subject: FreeBSD 4.8R sluggish performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: scot-gale@excite.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 19:17:35 -0000 This problem also occurred a few months ago but spontaneously resolved itself after a few cold boots, so I never found out exactly what the problem was. Most functions have slowed dramatically. Some examples: If I try to ping a host on the internet (e.g. freebsd.org), I get all the packets, but the output of the command doesn't begin for at least 10 seconds. If I try startx, it takes about 30 seconds just to begin to display the root window. Even backspacing seems much slower. While this is going on, no unusual processes are running and the CPU is practically unused. Nor is it merely a matter of delay--the CPU usage never spikes up like it normally would. It just sits mostly idle while the command I've issued takes a long time to complete. Although I haven't installed any software or changed anything else lately, I tried booting the GENERIC kernel instead, but the problem remained. I can always tell when the problem will occur based upon what happens at boot. There are no error messages, but the slowness begins when the standard daemons are loading. Cron and sshd load just fine, but the delay occurs as sendmail loads, and there is another delay as sendmail-clientmqueue loads. Once that happens I know I'm in trouble thereafter. I know this isn't much to go on, but does anyone have any clue on what I might try? Thank you. _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!