lagging kernel behavior--very strange

Leiden, Soren (soren@leiden.org)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:32:10 -0700

I have these two machines, exactly the same in every aspect,
periphreals included. HOWEVER, 1 works great, flawless, the
other-- has the problem described below:

When doing heavy network traffic, the machine starts to
crawl with a load avg of 1.0 -- the NIC is PCI, and works
great in the other machine.

When playing mpeg video in X it is unusually choppy and
brings the machine to a crawl much like the NIC.

This is a pentiumII-350, tons of ram, etc, etc-- SAME specs
as the other machine -exactly- which works fine.

I've tried troubleshooting hardware wise, e.g. removing
everything but the video card and checking the performance
when playing mpeg....the problem persists

I know this's a vague scenario but i'm open to -any- insight
at all.

Thanks,

-- 
Soren


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