[BlueOnyx:01155] Re: slow server

[Steve Howes]

Dodgy NIC?

On 29 Apr 2009, at 21:47, Tony Loosle wrote:

>  Awhile ago there was alot of confusion when a yum update hit.   It  
> affected alot of people here on this list.
>
> During that time, one of my bx servers stopped working.  It lost the  
> NIC.   I rebooted it and went into interactive mode to reload ?? the  
> driver for the nic card.
>
> Since that point this server is extremely slow.   If I shell into  
> the box, it responds very slowly.   once in, i try to ping, ie:   
> ping www.google.com  it takes several seconds before it responds,  
> then does one ping, hangs for a few more seconds then goes as it  
> normaly does.
>
> Web pages, everything on this box is very very slow.  Yet the cpu  
> never gets pushed past 2 or3 %.
>
> Any ideas or help???
>
> I would be interested in a paid solution if someone out there has  
> any ideas?
>