On Monday 29 October 2001 18:44, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > Subject: Re: 127.0.0.1 slow
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > when i'm sending attachment from pine (which use localhost to connect
> > > to sendmail) it sends first 100-200kB fast then very slowly - while
> > > only 8% CPU is loaded. when using pipe instead of localhost everything
> > > is right.
[snip]
> > At first, I was thinking that the slow down may be caused by missing
> > reverse IP resolution, DNS timeouts or ident lookup timeouts. But you
> > indicate that a lot of a message is sent fast.
>
> no. it starts sending immediately, after a moment get about 5% (it wat
> 3.5meg attachment) and then SLOOOWLY sends rest 95% with only 8% CPU
> usage. when setting SMTP server to another machine on local ethernet
> instead of local machine's SMTP it goes normal speed.

I get exactly the same sort of behaviour with a local newsserver on 1.5/i386. 
Very fast at the beginning of fetching article headers, then a dramatic 
slowdown. It seems that only the groups with the largest overview files are 
affected.

-- 
Douglas