On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:02:37AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote:
>
> Just recently one of our servers has started to respond to certain
> requests rather slowly. POP, SMTP, and SSH reqeusts have started showing
> slower reponse times from the server. I'm running Woody on a dual
> processor machine with 2 gigs of memory and a hardware raid. Uptime shows
> our load average at 1.17 and top shows 98.2% system resources free. I
> don't know where to look to find out why the server is repsonding so slow.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
>
Hi Ed,
first you should ask yourself, how do I quantify 'rather slowly'?
And now just some random thoughts...
- what does some kind of network monitoring tool (I use xnetload) show
for the interface in question when idle? when making a connection?
- if the server is attached through an LAN, try pinging it from another
machine (as root) with ping -f (flood ping) and watch the network
saturation
- use some tool like ethereal to analyze the packets exchanged while
making a connection
Cheers,
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