On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Mike Cheponis wrote:

> I found the problem, thanks for all the help (I learned a lot again!).
>
> The problem?  I was running the Folding@Home program under Linux emulation.
>

That's good... if it was that.

> Now, I don't know -why- this was the problem, because this machine is a
> 1.1 GHz Athlon with 1G of ECC memory.  And when I run setiathome in the
> background at priority 20, it basically only soaks up unused cycles.
>
> Things like nttcp and netstat -in -I epic0 showed no errors, just slow
> performance.
>

The problem reminded me about bad tp-cables. We were about 7 people in a
apartement using a 10mbit HUB.. everyone had full 10mbit... but we wanted
100mbit instead, so we switched the HUB to a 100mbit HUB. It was almost
good... but when two people leeched from each other the other got no
speed... so we switched the HUB to a 10/100mbit switch instead. All got
full 100mbit but one... he got around 400kbit at most... we switched
between two ports and the speed went up to 3.5Mbit... strange... then we
switched cables to new ones. Then, at last,  the speed was at full 100mbit
(depending on HD-usage).

//roine