it was strange.... I switched to chrome and everything was running great for like a month and then everything dragged to a crawl. I then switched back to firefox. A couple of weeks later I reinstalled chrome and everything is running great now. I guess chromes programmers had to do something. :-)~MIKE~(-:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Lisa Kachold <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Joe, > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:35 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Yesterday, I tried to post this question to plug, >> but it was bounced back as undeliverable. Wonder why? >> > > Evidently there are problems with stability at Deru? > Many in PLUG over the years have offered to donate hosting, however, Hans > has never agreed to it. DeVry University provides some level of services > for the BigBlueButton server at a local colocation that also might be used, > as I understand it. Moving the domain is actually quite easy since it's > hosted under the .US name. > >> >> Anyway, here it is again: >> >> My systems have begun to run very slowly. >> > > Joe, we need EXACT details. "My systems have begun to run very slowly" is > not sufficient. > > What systems? > > Please send us the output of: > > uname -a > free > ps -aux > dmesg [last 20 lines] > tail -n 100 /var/log/messages > ethtool eth0 (or whatever your net is defined as) or wlan0 > > >> Is there some way to clear memory without shutting down or logging out and >> back in? >> > You should never need to "clear memory". There would never, in a linux > environment be an instance where "clearing memory" would be required. > If you are low on swap and your system starts paging, you can add > addtional swap, but I doubt that is the issue. We will evaluate after > reading the requested info above. > >> >> Actually, even when I log out and back in, they are still slower than what >> has been normal. >> > > Is this more than 1 system? > > >> >> Especially Firefox has become much slower than what has been normal in the >> past. >> > > Recommendations: > > Clear your browser cache regularly. > Use a NoScript plugin to ensure javascript backdoors and virus are not > invisibly installed. > Switch to Chrome > >> >> Also, when I tried to check plug threads today, I couldn't get the plug >> website to open, though other websites seem to be working fine (albeit >> slower than normal). >> > > I believe we have determined that this was intermittent from some > providers and not from others, therefore it's most probably that this was > due to a Least Cost Routing issue after a change in the BGP tables, which > is regularly done by big providers to take advantage of cheaper bandwidth. > > > Of course Deru might have lost one of two dual honed upstream providers, > whereupon it can take up to 24 hours for all routes to equalize and update. > > Since Deru hosts the DNS and was unreachable, the authoritive servers > could not be reached, and mail was therefore also DROPPED for anyone in the > outage zones. > > We should at the very least obtain free offsite secondary DNS services for > the plug.phoenix.az.us DNS, which are available for free. > > -- > > (503) 754-4452 Android > (623) 239-3392 Skype > (623) 688-3392 Google Voice > ** > it-clowns.com > Chief Clown > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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