Re: How to clear Os9 comms blockage?
- From: Stan The Man <man@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:15:53 +0000
In article <0001HW.BFFE186800D1BFE9F04075B0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Nelson
<nelson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:07:24 -0500, Stan The Man wrote
>(in article <250120061507246683%man@xxxxxxxxx>):
>
>> I have two computers on my desk, one a G4 TiBook running 10.3.9 and
>> connected wirelessly to my 2MB DSL line via a Netgear DG834G; and the
>> other, which I prefer for most of my work, a spiffing PowerMac 7500
>> running Os9.1 and connected by ethernet wire to the same router.
>>
>> My problem is that once or twice a day on the 7500 my Internet apps (IE
>> 5.1.7, Eudora 3.1.3 and YA-Newswatcher 4.2.5) start to slow down and
>> soon grind to a complete standstill. Quitting and restarting the apps
>> doesn't fix the problem so I have to reboot. But meanwhile, my wireless
>> Mac is as happy as Larry so there is no problem with the wireless side
>> of my connection.
>>
>> I shouldn't be running short of memory - the PM7500 has 704MB of RAM
>> and I have experimented with ever-increasing RAM allocations to the
>> three applications, to no avail.
>>
>> Nor is my internet usage excessive. I don't download large files, never
>> stream video or audio and never play online games. I do spend a fair
>> bit of time reading and posting on one or two web forums but otherwise
>> it's standard browsing and email and maybe one short visit per day to
>> my subscribed text-only newsgroups.
>>
>> So what could be gumming up the works? I'm running Open Transport 2.7.4
>> and my system files haven't been modified by me for years. The drives
>> (two internal, one external) are frequently checked and rarely exhibit
>> any errors. It seems unlikely to me that any of my cache files could
>> grow large enough in such a short time to cause a problem and I anyway
>> always have 1GB of free space on my boot volume. But if there's some
>> on-the-fly troubleshooting or housekeeping that I could do rather than
>> having to reboot, that would be a great help.
>>
>> Please don't tell me to ditch my 7500 or my beloved Os 9. TIA.
>>
>> Stan
>
>I seem to recall a similar phenomenon when IE's Cache would grow by
>monstrous proportions. Check the size of it... I forget where it is
>stored but you can find it with a search for "cache". I also seem to
>recall similar slow-downs on 9.1 with AppleShare running... a check of
>the virtual memory being used by it showed that it was constantly
>growing even though it nothing was being shared. In fact, a check of
>the Virtual Memory useage is probably a good place to start. Once it's
>all gobbled up it doesn't make any difference how much real memory or
>free disk space you have.
>
>The other thing I would try is to run the system with no applications
>running for a while and then add each one back one at a time to see if
>you can isolate which one is causing the issue.
>
>Or you could ditch your 7500 and your beloved Os 9 :-)
Thanks for your thoughts. I don't think it's an IE cache problem since
it never seems to grow bigger than 10MB. In any event, I can't imagine
that the IE cache could cause Eudora and Newswatcher to grind to a halt
as well. Nor is the issue related to VM, which has never been turned
on, or Filesharing which is off 99% of the time.
In view of the blanket effect on all my internet apps (and no others),
I feel it must be either Open Transport or ethernet related. I may try
reinstalling those elements.
Stan
.
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