Re: system crawling....

2008-10-02 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 01 Oct 2008, Luis Montes wrote: I wasn't able to authenticate on a text terminal either, so I couldn't run top to see what was going on. The disks weren't really spinning much either. Then about ten minutes later something freed up, and I'm in now. No idea what it was, but

Re: system crawling....

2008-10-02 Thread Mickey Moore
Is it possible that the primary DNS server is not responding and a timeout must occur each lookup before switching to the alternate? This type of external wait delay would not be affected by the speed of the 8x2GHZ system. --- On Thu, 10/2/08, Gavin McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From:

Re: system crawling....

2008-10-02 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008, Mickey Moore wrote: Is it possible that the primary DNS server is not responding and a timeout must occur each lookup before switching to the alternate? This type of external wait delay would not be affected by the speed of the 8x2GHZ system. Sounds very plausible

Re: system crawling....

2008-10-02 Thread Luis Montes
Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Wed, 01 Oct 2008, Luis Montes wrote: Agreed. Can you look back through /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages during the time and see if there's anything that might indicate the source of the issue? One possibility might be a rogue process hogging all

Re: Re; sytem crawling ,,,,,

2008-10-02 Thread Luis Montes
Reiner Schmid wrote: My system was crawling. too. Perhaps you can install speedometer to test the speed of eth0 (or eth1) and test the connection between server and clients with speedometer -rx eth0 -tx eth0 I removed thenetwork manager and avahi-autoip to get a better connection. Do

Re: system crawling....

2008-10-02 Thread Charles Austin
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Luis Montes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like there's been over 5000 errors like this: Oct 1 09:32:24 192.168.0.61 kernel: [152372.345437] end_request: I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 200314 since yesterday morning. Sounds like a hard drive error/sector

Re: system crawling....

2008-10-02 Thread Jordan Erickson
Charles, nbd is the Network Block Device - although the I/O error message is reminiscent of a physical hard drive failure or bad sectors, this is a different deal. Charles Austin wrote: On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Luis Montes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like there's been over

ubuntu.com blocking one of our IP addresses

2008-10-02 Thread Tom Wolfe
For some reason ubuntu is blocking one of our IP addresses from accessing its web pages, which means whenever I want to make a download or access the ubunut or edubuntu forums I need to use another public IP. I tried contacting their technical people via the whois information but haven't had a

Re: system still crawling....

2008-10-02 Thread Jordan Erickson
Luis, This might sound trivial, but I'm not sure if you'd mentioned you'd completely rebuilt your chroot from scratch as a troubleshooting step. Are you using the complete Edubuntu i386 install, or is it only the i386 kernel you're using? You'd mentioned in your first post that you were using

Re: system still crawling....

2008-10-02 Thread Luis Montes
Thanks for the reply, this does look similar. However, it's a normal 32-bit i386 install with the server kernel to address more ram. No 64bit binaries anywhere on the system. I thought about going 64 bit but decided against it because of adobe flash. The chroot was built fresh after the install