From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 30 14:49:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.cray.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056AF37B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:49:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA22094 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:49:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAUMnR702098 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:49:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <200011302249.eAUMnR702098@thought.org> Subject: could netscape hose my dialup modem traffic? To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:49:26 -0800 (PST) Organization: <> thought.org: pvblic service Unix since 1986... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This latest began only after I ungraded to 4.X (I'm currently at 4.1 and content). The problem is that occasionally my dialup thru-put drops to 5 or 10bps. Trying to get anything done via telecommuting is virtually impossible. One thing I thought it might be is the ``stray irq 7'' stderr messages... nope, don't think so. My latest clue was having 3 netscapes instantiated. Out of the blue, my response went from normal to rotten. To get things back to normal there was only one rational move: shutdown -r. I'm thinking that this might be a system problem rathen than one with ppp. netscape and DNS? (?) I've seen one similar posting like this on -questions, but saw no response. Anybody know what's happening, or how to trace this? TIA, gents, gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message