jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (Jeffery Small) (04/27/89)
I have a 3B1 (2-Mb RAM, 67-Mb Disk, 2 serial expansion boards and 1 ethernet board) running 3.51a OS. This machine has performed like a champ until I recently installed the TCP/IP software and the ethernet board. Now what I am finding is that the machine is thrashing around whenever it tries to do some CPU-intensive task like uncompressing the news. An uncompress task which use take 5 minutes might now take 10-15 minutes! I have killed off all unnecessary daemons like sendmail and fingerd but have not noticed any real improvement. The disk is running with about 16-20 Mb free most of the time, however it has recently been filled up with news to within 4-5 Mb of capacity. So my questions are: 1- Could this performance problem be primarily related to disk fragmentation and I need to reformat and reload the works, and 2- are there any tuning tricks which can be performed on the TCP/IP implementation to speed things up? Thanks for any pointers you can offer. -- Jeffery Small (206) 485-5596 uw-beaver!uw-nsr!uw-warp C. Jeffery Small and Associates !cjsa!jeff 19112 152nd Ave NE - Woodinville, WA 98072 uunet!nwnexus