On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 14:29, Buchan Milne wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > OK, more info, this is a little weird...I've booted with > > kernel-multimedia to try that, and the problem is still there, but it's > > not as *bad* - the system response is still sluggish under file > > downloads, but not *as* sluggish as with the main kernel. I'm really > > confused now...:) > > Is this machine connected directly to the internet? Maybe you're the > victim of excessive traffic / bad packets from infected Windows boxes? > Some linux boxes routing on our university network apparently took some > beating from blaster-infected machines ...
Not directly connected, it's connected through a firewalled router. I doubt that's the answer, because the system response is fine all the time except when there's network traffic *to this system*. -- adamw
