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From: tysman@europa.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Help with major slowdown problems needed BAD.
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 20:09:48 GMT
Organization: Europa Communications, Inc, Portland Oregon USA
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  Hello,
  We are running BSD OS ver 2.1 on a p120 with 64 megs of ram
and we are experiencing a very unusual problem. When we boot the
system, it runs like a champ, for anywhere between 2 to 30 hours, then
it boggs down REAL bad, gets really slow, and take FOREVER to change
dirs, or do anything else for that matter. Now we are not overloading
the system with users, as there are only three of us at this point.
We are at a loss here as to where to look to find the trouble, or how
to track it down to being a hardware, or software problem.
I am pulling my hair out. Of course the two month support period has
been over for 5 months now, so I am asking for some suggestions here.
BTW we arew not pulling a newsfeed yet either.
Has anyone else experienced this, or anything similar, if so how did
you correct it? Even suggestions as to where to look, possible cause,
anything at all would be GREATLY appreciated.
Please email any help you may be able to offer me to either:
richg@scnet.net  or
tysman@europa.com

Thank you in advance for any, and all help anyone could offer.

Rich Grimek