From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 2 2:27:30 2002 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 9188237B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 02:27:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3C643E88 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 02:27:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (malin.twenty4help.se [195.67.108.195]) by mailf.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gB2ARNTL019992; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:27:23 +0100 (CET) X-Original-Recipient: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3DEB3571.9040003@401.cx> Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:26:57 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derrick Ryalls Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor server response References: <001801c299ed$0d4af3f0$0200a8c0@bartxp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Derrick Ryalls wrote: > I built a FreeBSD box using a 4.7-release mini cd distro from > freebsd.org. I then updated to stable via cvsup and did a > buildworld/kernel. > > The machine needed linux support, so I installed linux-base (6?) from > the ports. Things were going fine until I started stressing the box. > > Frequently, when using edit to edit config files, the remote session > would lock and connection would get lost. The edit session would show > up in a 'ps -aux' but I could not kill it via kill or killall. Now the > box is fairly unresponsive to pings. I swapped a known good patch cable > but it didn't help. Also, when trying to scp, more often than not, once > I click on copy (using winscp), the session would lock up and connection > drop on the client side. > > I don't seem to have any editing issues if I am sitting at the terminal, > and pinging local ip doesn't drop a packet. When I ping any other ip, I > get dropped packets... > > Any ideas? > > Hardware: > > XP1800+ > ECS K7S5A mobo w/ onboard lan. > 512M PC2100 crucial ram > > > > -Derrick > I have exactly that motherboard in one of my machines, and I must say Im not impressed by its performance or stability. I disabled the onboard nic and replaced it with a PCI Intel 10/100 card, and network performance sky-rocketed. Just a tip -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message