Re: FreeBSD 4.8R sluggish performance

From: Warren Block (wblock_at_wonkity.com)
Date: 05/31/04

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To: Scott <scot-gale@excite.com>

    On Mon, 31 May 2004, Scott wrote:

    > 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.

    You can see if this is a DNS issue by comparing the reactions:

    ping hostname
    ping hostname's-ip-address

    In other words, if it's slow to look up a name, but quick when it
    doesn't have to, you've shown that it is a DNS problem.

    -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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