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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-15.sprintlink.net!news.utelfla.com!hobbes.crc.com!usenet From: Dan Benjamin <dpb@mail.hqs.crc.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slow login on POP, FTP, and Telnet Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 10:29:30 -0500 Organization: Coleman Research Corporation Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32F9F8DA.2CB9@mail.hqs.crc.com> References: <32f950a8.336626051@news> <5dbljq$bh6$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pelican.hqs.crc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35059 Hello, > > 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. I must politely disagree. I have been running 2.1.6-R on a 386 with 8MB memory. Although the logins may be slow, they are not so slow that anything times out. It manages secondary DNS, main pop mail, acts as NFS server and client, NIS client, etc. Let's hear more about your network - are you running additional services? How about the nic? Dan Benjamin dpb@crc.com