Re: Sluggish Login

From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 16:06:32 EDT


one question..are both of these emulators running on the same box?
wouldn't you expect a dns issue to manifest for both those if they are
running on the same box?

Lieberg, Patrick wrote:

>It could be a reverse lookup issue with DNS. You can disable that temporarily by changing the line in inetd.conf to 'telnetd -a -c'. This pinpointed the problem for me one time and I found there was a definite host-resolution issue.
>
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>Subject: Sluggish Login
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>We have two software applications running on the same AIX 4.3 box. Each is
>accessed with a different emulator (don't ask why...): IceTCP and InVue.
>Performance has been fine and identical through each until lately.
>
>In recent weeks, it seems as though the delay for get a login prompt through
>InVue has gotten increasingly sluggish (up to 5 minutes, I hear) while
>IceTCP has no signficant delay. Once logged in, normal performance ensues.
>
>My first thought was DNS resolution but, though I haven't checked
>configuration (this is a remote site), if I remember correctly, it is set to
>a 10.0.0.x address which has not changed. Also, I still wonder why it would
>be _increasingly_ slower rather than just an abrupt change.
>
>My next thought is that a file system is running low on space for temp files
>but I checked that and see nothing.
>
>Thoughts?
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