Not as a direct result of uptime, but perhaps as a result of something that
is correlated with uptime.
My first thought is a memory leak. See what "free" is reporting and how it
changes over time -- it's the second line you're interested in (+/-
buffers/cache), not the first -- the first will always approach 100% memory
utilization, due to the way the kernel does caching and buffering. But if
the second line creeps up steadily, something is leaking memory (that is,
allocating it dynamically, then forgetting to release it when no longer needed).
Some versions of Netsacpe on Linux are said to leak memory, and I don't
recall if 4.62 is one of them or not.
At 02:51 PM 4/3/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Is there any known phenomenon of the machine slowing down with uptime to
>access sites across the www? I have an uptime of 7 days now and I have
>left my self logged on for 6 days inside X. I have a fetchmail running as
>a daemon, and shut netscape down and xlock my screen and leave daily and
>restart the next morning. For the last 2-3 days I have noticed that
>everytime I start netscape it takes a long time to load a page (sometimes
>even from dartmouth.edu!!) And even after loading the page I have a status
>line saying "Read 100% of 54K (stalled)". I feel that the access times
>have gone slower surely in comparison to windows. Is there any reason or
>must I look at something in particular? I run off a T1 and I know that I
>can access dartmouth.edu at over 100 K/s and not at 10.5K/s as Netscape
>tells me now :-( I run RH 6.1 and netscape 4.62. What must I try?
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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