On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Ben Zeller wrote:

  I've had similar problems. And when I try to send mail
from a telnet session running pine, I have to wait for about 
a minute before I see a message that it was sent.

   Guy

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a somewhat strange problem.  Some processes on my IIci, NetBSD 1.4,
> are incredibly slow.  The best examples are all network processes (telnetd,
> ftpd, sshd), and the email client pine.  When I telnet into the machine,
> for example, it takes 4 minutes, 13 seconds (average) for login to be
> spawned.  Telnetd just sits in sleep mode the entire time. (I verified this
> through "top".)  Likewise, when I fire up pine, the process sits in sleep
> for _10 minutes!_ before going into run state.  By comparison, the email
> client elm goes right into run and loads within a second.  Most programs,
> like ps, grep, man, less, work fine.  All of the custom stuff I compiled
> through the package system (compiled, not installed the binaries) work
> fine, such as lynx, elm, joe, and pico, with the exception of pine.
> 
> The machine is never less than 90% idle, and there's never a signifigant
> dent into the 32MB of physical RAM.  This problem has been occurring for
> about four months -- I have tried upgrading from 1.3.2 to 1.4 and building
> my own kernel.  Neither solution helped.
> 
> Has anyone experienced anything similar?  Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Ben
> 

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Guy Santiglia  Quadra 610, 50 MHZ, NetBSD 1.4!
South Korea
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