--- Steve Biggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:51:17 -0800 (PST) > From: Steve Biggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Slow network > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am using an Intel eepro 10 MB NIC with a HUB. One > leg of my cabling is really not very good wire, but > it > definitely has continuity. I am using this WS to > test > ltsp for use on a headless and diskless router for > when we finally get cable modem. When it is not > booting ltsp it is running W95 and I have > transferred > very large files between the three computers on my > net > with no problems. So the wires, while not of high > quality, are functional. > > I am not seeing alot of collision or anything like I > would expect to see if the wires were causing a > problem. The network activity is consistent and the > kernel always loads quickly. However when it starts > the dhclient, everything starts to slow down. > > The client will pause between each access of the > server, with no activity and no collisions showing > on > the lights of the HUB. > > One thing I am thinking is a problem with how linux > recognizes memory size. I couldn't get the system > to > boot at all until I put a "mem=32M" in my dhcpd.conf > to tell the loader and the kernel that the memory > was > only 32M instead of the 40M that it has. It keeps > making 16 ramdisks of 4096 kb each. That's a lot > more > RAM than I have. > > Steve Biggs > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Steve, > > > > What kind of network card do you have in > > the workstation. > > > > And, are you using a hub or a switch. > > > > The reason I ask about a switch, is that I've seen > > switches do really flakey things. They have a bit > > of logic in them, and sometimes they go wacko. > > > > If it is a switch, try cycling power on it. > > > > Also, are you sure your cables are good ? I've > > seen cables that are mis-wired, and they appear to > > work until you put them under load. > > > > Jim McQuillan > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Steve Biggs wrote: > > > > > I have been trying to use a pentium 75 with 40 > MB > > of > > > Ram to boot ltsp with X. I have a ROM image > from > > > Rom-O-Matic and everything boots very quickly > upto > > the > > > point that the dhclient starts. It takes a > couple > > of > > > minutes for the booting to continue and when it > > starts > > > start_ws it goes very slowly. I get the login > > window > > > in about a minute but when I login it takes a > long > > > time to start getting the desktop to show. > > > > > > I have waited 30 minutes or more for all of the > > icons > > > and the taskbar at the bottom to finish coming > up > > but > > > they never complete it. > > > > > > I have used tcpdump and the network traffic > slows > > down > > > until it is quiet for 20 to 40 seconds at a > time. > > > > > > Does anyone have a suggestion of where to look > for > > > this problem? I will supply further information > > when > > > I have a clue as to what to collect. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Steve Biggs > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy > > Awards® > > > http://movies.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or > > change prefs, goto: > > > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on > > irc.openprojects.net > > > > > > > -- > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® > http://movies.yahoo.com/ >
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