Wow that's strange-

I'm assuming that you're not doing a lot of memory swapping here right?

The 30-seconds-to-telnet thing could be caused by in.telnetd doing a reverse
lookup on the incoming IP-
Meaning, if it fails, you get to sit there waiting for the DNS queries to
timeout...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Nelson" <henry@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
To: <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 8:27 PM
Subject: howto debug a machine that gets more and more "sluggish"


> I have a machine that takes _forever_ to load a file for editing into
> vi (ca. 7 seconds) or to login to via telnet (over 30 seconds). I asked
> about this previously, thinking it was some kind of hardware problem.
> Recently, I made a big discovery: if I reboot the machine, it's _fast_.
> However, hour by hour it gets more and more "sluggish," and by the end
> of the day, it's as slow as ever. If I reboot, it perks right up. I've
> confirmed this over 6 times now, and every time it progressively slows
> down and ends up at approximately the same level of "sluggishness." Some
> things, like httpd (Apache) or compiling don't seem to be affected at
> all, or at least not noticeably.
>
> I've tried to not start up daemons one by one, but I've not hit
> on anything that seems to make a difference. Is there some way to
> systematically debug a problem like this? TIA
>
> henry nelson
>