initially, i thought it was because i uploaded all those pictures to the server and it needed to be defraged?? (can you defrag a linux harddrive? if so how)
Under normal circumstances, you should never have to de-frag a Linux filesystem. Just Google for "defrag Linux", and you'll get a lot of links like this: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1455687,00.asp When someone complains about a computer system being "slow", a lot of well-intentioned people will offer quick fixes such as "a faster CPU" or defragging the disk. These seldom fix the original problem. As I like to say, you have a Ferrari in a traffic jam. Your hardware and your filesystem are really fast (on the order of milliseconds, not in 10's of seconds). But the CPU is waiting for system until it times out. One usual suspect is the network. DNS mis-configurations can cause frequent timeouts. Your other statement about the difference between the 71.71.xx.xx network and the 192.xx.xx.xx network also points in this same direction. Sorry, I have no specific advice to offer for your problem. I just needed to rant about defragging and faster CPU's. Alan -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
