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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ron Peterson <rpeterso@MtHolyoke.edu>
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Subject: Re: network / performance problems
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Ron Peterson <rpeterso@MtHolyoke.edu> wrote:
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>  http://depot.mtholyoke.edu:8080/tmp/

Could you chmod user.log and vmstat.log for us?

There are a few things you should try - you probably already have:

- Stop all applications, restart them

- Unload net driver module, reload and reconfigure it.

If either of those (or similar operations) are found to bring the latency
back to normal then that would be a big hint.  ie: we need to find
something which brings the performance back apart from a complete reboot.

Also, look out for consistent increases in either urer or system CPU time.