[WBEL-users] Hello, and possible LAN/NIC issue?
Johnny Hughes
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Wed, 07 Jul 2004 06:26:54 -0500
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I have found that these things are almost always DNS name issues....and
somehow either the server or the client is stuck doing a name lookup....
Johnny Hughes
HughesJR.com
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 02:20, Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the help - will check things out and let you know if
> anything interesting found.
>
> One possibly critical piece of info I forgot to mention is that the
> 'fast' system is running RH9 whereas the 'slow' is running WBEL.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
> [mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org] On Behalf Of Sudev Barar
> Sent: 07 July 2004 02:37
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Hello, and possible LAN/NIC issue?
>
>
> On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 23:05, Kirby Bohling wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:20:13AM +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> > > Greetings - first poster here so be gentle on me!
> > >
> > > Using WBEL with great success but come up against a small issue with
>
> > > performance that's driving me mad...
> > >
> > > I am running eGroupWare on a PIII-750 with 256MB RAM. The Web pages
> > > seem to be served very slowly - for example, the PHP page generation
>
> > > indicator on eGroupware says 'page generated in 0.nnn seconds', but
> > > the Web pages take sometimes 7-10 seconds to turn up on the client
> > > PC - we're connected directly on the same switch.
> >
> > Okay, there are several ways to attack this:
> >
> > 1. Start using timing wget on the local host on the slow machine:
> >
> > /usr/bin/time wget http://localhost/the/url/here
> [SNIP]
>
> Excellent idea! Only thing I realised was that time was in the path so
> the command shortened to: $time wget URL
>
> Thanks, it helped me pinpoint an issue that was nagging my mind. I hope
> Nigel also benefited.
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On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 02:20, Nigel Kendrick wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>Thanks everyone for the help - will check things out and let you know if
anything interesting found.
One possibly critical piece of info I forgot to mention is that the
'fast' system is running RH9 whereas the 'slow' is running WBEL.
-----Original Message-----
From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
[mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org] On Behalf Of Sudev Barar
Sent: 07 July 2004 02:37
To: whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Hello, and possible LAN/NIC issue?
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 23:05, Kirby Bohling wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:20:13AM +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> > Greetings - first poster here so be gentle on me!
> >
> > Using WBEL with great success but come up against a small issue with
> > performance that's driving me mad...
> >
> > I am running eGroupWare on a PIII-750 with 256MB RAM. The Web pages
> > seem to be served very slowly - for example, the PHP page generation
> > indicator on eGroupware says 'page generated in 0.nnn seconds', but
> > the Web pages take sometimes 7-10 seconds to turn up on the client
> > PC - we're connected directly on the same switch.
>
> Okay, there are several ways to attack this:
>
> 1. Start using timing wget on the local host on the slow machine:
>
> /usr/bin/time wget </FONT><A HREF="http://localhost/the/url/here"><U>http://localhost/the/url/here</U></A>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">[SNIP]
Excellent idea! Only thing I realised was that time was in the path so
the command shortened to: $time wget URL
Thanks, it helped me pinpoint an issue that was nagging my mind. I hope
Nigel also benefited.</I></FONT></PRE>
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