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To: Garrett Casey <garrett@websidestory.com>
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Subject: Re: Slow, Slow, Slow 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 00:54:13 -0700
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>The problem is that when I telnet to this machine (from a machine on
>a T1 line), it is extremely SLOW.
>It will typically take 10 seconds for the login prompt and even
>longer to check the password.  I have telneted to the machine, typed
>a command and have waited over a minute before even a character will
>be displayed.
>
>I have a dozen other machines that sometimes do the same thing.
>EVERYTHING looks perfect - yet the whole damn machine is extremely
>slow.  

   You might be running out of mbuf clusters - the behavior when this
happens is similar. Are you seeing any "Out of mbuf clusters" messages in
/var/log/messages?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project