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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
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To: gt4511c@acmez.gatech.edu (James Webb)
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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.

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Burton Sampley
Email: bsampley@best.com | home page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley