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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slow login on POP, FTP, and Telnet Date: 6 Feb 1997 04:10:34 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5dbljq$bh6$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> References: <32f950a8.336626051@news> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsampley.vip.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.7 To: gt4511c@acmez.gatech.edu (James Webb) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35030 In article <32f950a8.336626051@news>, gt4511c@acmez.gatech.edu (James Webb) writes: > Hey everyone, I have a system that's just starting out, it > only has four current users. It's running 2.1.6-Release on a 486DX33 > with 8MB of ram. The logins on POP, FTP, and Telnet are all REALLY > slow (most programs time them out). Any idea why this could be? I > suspect the CPU, while my fellow "administrators" think it's the ram. > Any ideas? Thanks for any help. I not a network expert, but I would stronly agree that the limited amount of RAM is slowing down the system. Are you using SCSI or IDE. If it's IDE that could also be slowing down the system. Hope that helps. -- Burton Sampley Email: bsampley@best.com | home page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley