nevermind, it's the network... or hardware... I tried just the very basic setup at the top of
http://www.9grid.fr/www.9grid.fr/wiki/plan9/Drawterm_to_your_terminal/ and I get the same poor performance. network sux! On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Akshat Kumar <aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:30 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> > wrote: >> a bad network? > > I thought so at first, but if instead of using separate /net and /net.alt > mountpoints for the two networks, I simply, as I said before, > > bind -b '#l1' /net > bind -b '#I1' /net > > and start auth service, etc., afterwards (so that they start only on > the external interface), then from testing last night, there is no such > lag in drawterm or dropped packets on ping. now, it could just be > the timing of things (like, when I tested, etc.)... but if I drawterm to > a remote network, it's *much* faster, and pinging around to other > things doesn't cause dropped packets. > > So, I'm lead to believe that the problem is in a configuration of > two network interfaces, where the default is the internal network, > which is bound to /net, and the external network is bound to /net.alt > is there some reason or way that incoming calls could be confused, > or it might take time for the server to find the right place to reply > from? I dunno... but the performance is killing me. >