Re: WTF!!!

From: Mark Slingo (mark_at_slingo.nq.nu)
Date: 10/10/03 

Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:48:52 +1000

blue wrote:

> blue wrote:
>
>> I left for work , came back and my FreeBSD is fucked.
>> MY KDE is ridiculously slow, i have to wait a very noticeable amount
>> of time before any app launches, or before I can log in. Pinging any
>> machine on the internet requres 100 ms more than usual.
>>
>> in my absense there have been no erros, and no logins
>> I was just wondering if anyone encountered that or a similar problem
>>
>> Im running 5.1-Release
>>
> This is becoming a real pisser, all apps take forever to launch, but run
> fine once up. I have 350 MB of free Physical memory, and 256 of swap.
> The swap is never used. I have nfsd, smbd, and nmbd running, but
> performance is still crap with those off. I also noticed that recently
> sendmail takes forever to launch at startup. The overaly system load
> average is about a whole whopping 2
>
> I got's me Bell sympatico high speed (ADSL), but i doubt sincerily that it
> has anything to day with this since even apps that do no network trafic
> *** out. Also the initial connection is where the slowdons occur.. such
> as the connection to any server, not the exchange of data. I have gone
> over the configuration of the firewall but nothing, I am considering
> installing gnome so that i can identify if it is a KDE problem or not.
>
> Please let me know if you have any info on the described symptoms. Even
> speculation (other than my monkey like typing skills) will be very welcome
> since this has me stunned.I have done nothing to the system between the
> time of excellent performance and this crap,
>

run top and look at what's using the cpu. I found I had to fiddle with arts
(the sound in kde) to stop it chewing all the cpu. Mozilla is another hog,
and occasionly kplayer (mplayer kde gui) doesn't shut down properly (if you
have these installed).

Mark. 

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