As an example, today I was compiling glibc-2.0.6 and downloading GDB 4.17.
Glibc2 had been compiling a while before I started ncftp, and once the download
began, it was going around 1.5kb/s. As time passed, it slowed down to a crawling
500b/s. At this point, I killed gcc and the ftp gradulaly gained speed back to
1.4kb/s.
I can and have reproduced this problem many times and I think it should be
addressed before we release the next stable branch. The general kernel
performance has seemed to been degrading lately, at least, for me.
I know it is not because my machine was "overloaded", because I am running a
233mhz AMD K6 w/ 64MB RAM and I've run many things that take more resources than
PPP, FTP, and EGCS.
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Sean M. Kelly | Bill Gates must truly be a genius to successfully
smkelly@zombie.org | market so many programming failures.
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