JayBee
01-21-2002, 08:06 PM
Wondering if someone can help - this has been bugging me for ages, and I'm sure it's something trivial, but I'm not entirely sure what the common problem is.
Running OS X 10.1.2 on an iBook with a broken modem, connecting to the net via ethernet through a dialup on my win2k box -- okay, it's an ugly set up, but it's all I have for the moment.
Anyway, I have my TCP/IP prefs set manually (have used DHCP and BootP - same story) to route through the winbox, and have manually set the DNS for my dialup connection. This all works fine, but seems to cause some odd symptoms: Booting up while on the LAN, but while the PC is NOT dialled up is VERY slow. The system gets to Apache startup, then hangs for ages (verbose boot shows it looking up my PCs IP address, and finding nothing... several times). Then, the gap between the "Boot" screen and login is very long (sometimes five minutes). If the iBook is not on the LAN, or the PC is dialled up, the boot is normal (and pretty nippy at that)
The iBook hangs for a long time when firing up Netinfo Manager. I get the spinning CD mouse pointer, and the actual Netinfo window takes ages to appear. Subsequently, Netinfo Man itself is VERY sluggish, with similar hanging every time an entry is changed. Again, this only happens when not online but on the LAN.
Performance in the Users prefs panel is similar to Netinfo Manager - slow to access, slow to effect change. Again, only when not online and on LAN.This appears to happen to the machine as soon as I set the TCP/IP settings to go through the winbox - I've done a few clean installs.
My only suspicions so far lie in Samba, which I use to make my Users' Sites folders available to the winBox. At first I thought having Samba serving four or five user shares might be taxing the machine... then I remembered that this is Unix, and it should be able to take that kind of punishment.
Not looking for any solutions (the data here is too sketchy for that), but if anyone has any "have you tried looking at file X or app Y ...?" type hints, I'd be really grateful.
Just need a kick in the right direction before I go randomly changing system settings ;)
Cheers for any help (and for reading all of that!)
JayBee
Running OS X 10.1.2 on an iBook with a broken modem, connecting to the net via ethernet through a dialup on my win2k box -- okay, it's an ugly set up, but it's all I have for the moment.
Anyway, I have my TCP/IP prefs set manually (have used DHCP and BootP - same story) to route through the winbox, and have manually set the DNS for my dialup connection. This all works fine, but seems to cause some odd symptoms: Booting up while on the LAN, but while the PC is NOT dialled up is VERY slow. The system gets to Apache startup, then hangs for ages (verbose boot shows it looking up my PCs IP address, and finding nothing... several times). Then, the gap between the "Boot" screen and login is very long (sometimes five minutes). If the iBook is not on the LAN, or the PC is dialled up, the boot is normal (and pretty nippy at that)
The iBook hangs for a long time when firing up Netinfo Manager. I get the spinning CD mouse pointer, and the actual Netinfo window takes ages to appear. Subsequently, Netinfo Man itself is VERY sluggish, with similar hanging every time an entry is changed. Again, this only happens when not online but on the LAN.
Performance in the Users prefs panel is similar to Netinfo Manager - slow to access, slow to effect change. Again, only when not online and on LAN.This appears to happen to the machine as soon as I set the TCP/IP settings to go through the winbox - I've done a few clean installs.
My only suspicions so far lie in Samba, which I use to make my Users' Sites folders available to the winBox. At first I thought having Samba serving four or five user shares might be taxing the machine... then I remembered that this is Unix, and it should be able to take that kind of punishment.
Not looking for any solutions (the data here is too sketchy for that), but if anyone has any "have you tried looking at file X or app Y ...?" type hints, I'd be really grateful.
Just need a kick in the right direction before I go randomly changing system settings ;)
Cheers for any help (and for reading all of that!)
JayBee